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And these are the ones of the sons of Israel who received an inheritance in the land of Chanaan, to whom Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Naue and the rulers of the ancestral houses of the tribes of the sons of Israel gave the inheritance.
For the sons of Joseph were two tribes, Manasse and Ephraim; and no portion in the land was given to the Levites, but only cities to dwell in, and the lands set apart for their livestock, and their livestock.
And the sons of Judah came to Joshua at Galgal, and Caleb son of Iephonne the Kenezite said to him: You know the word that the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and you at Kades Barne.
For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me from Kades Barne to spy out the land, and I brought him back word according to his mind.
And Moses swore on that day, saying: The land on which you set foot shall be yours as an allotment, and your children's forever, because you continued to follow after the Lord our God.
And now the Lord has sustained me, as he said. This is the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, and Israel journeyed in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am today eighty-five years old.
And now I ask you for this mountain, as the Lord said on that day; for you heard this word on that day. But now the Enakim are there, with cities fortified and great. If then the Lord is with me, I will utterly destroy them, in the manner the Lord said to me.
Therefore Hebron became the allotted inheritance of Caleb the son of Iephonne the Kenezite until this day, because he followed the ordinance of the Lord God of Israel.