Joshua
Chapter 14
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1These are what the sons of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel assigned to them as an inheritance.
2By lot was their inheritance, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
3For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan, and to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
4For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they gave the Levites no portion in the land, except cities to live in, and their Open lands around cities where animals feed. for their livestock and for their property.
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A migrash is the open pasture around a city, not the city itself.
5As God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided the land.
6The sons of Judah drew near to Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the word that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke to Moses, the man of God, about me and about you at Kadesh-barnea.
7I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout the land, and I brought him back word as it was in my heart.
8My brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I fully followed God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. my God.
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Milleti acharei is “I filled up after,” to follow all the way.
9Moses swore on that day, saying, If the land your foot has walked on is not yours, and your sons’, as an inheritance forever, because you fully followed God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. my God.
10Now, look, God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years since God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, look, I am today eighty-five years old.
11I am still as strong today as on the day Moses sent me. As my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war, and for going out and for coming in.
12Now give me this hill country, of which God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the Anakim are there, and the cities are great and fortified. Perhaps God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will be with me, and I will drive them out, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. spoke.
13Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.
14Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he fully followed God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary., the God of Israel.
15The name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba. He was the great man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.