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And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan , which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua , the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel , gave out to them;
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Their heritage by the Lord 's decision, as he gave orders by Moses , for the nine tribes and the half -tribe .
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For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half -tribe on the other side of Jordan , but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.
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Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim ; and they gave the Levites no part in the land , only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.
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As the Lord had given orders to Moses , so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land .
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Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal ; and Caleb , the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite , said to him, You have knowledge of what the Lord said to Moses , the man of God , about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.
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I was forty years old when Moses , the servant of the Lord , sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land ; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire.
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My brothers , however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart .
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And on that day Moses took an oath , saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever , because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart.
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And now, as you see , the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses , while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty -five years old .
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And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.
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So now, give me this hill -country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns : it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said .
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And Joshua gave him his blessing ; and he gave Hebron to Caleb , the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage .
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So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb , the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite , to this day , because with all his heart he was true to the Lord , the God of Israel .
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In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war .