¶ And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar¹ the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.

By lot² was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.

For Moses³ had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto⁴ the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

For the children⁵ of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities⁶ to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

¶ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal⁷: and Caleb⁸ the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite⁹ said unto him, Thou knowest¹⁰ the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man¹¹ of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea¹².

Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me¹³ from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought¹⁴ him word again as it was in mine heart.

Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly¹⁵ followed the LORD my God.

¹⁶And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.

¶ And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty¹⁷ and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered¹⁸ in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

¹⁹As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims²⁰ were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be²¹ the LORD will be with me, then I shall²² be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.

And Joshua blessed²³ him, and gave unto²⁴ Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.

Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because²⁵ that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.

And the name²⁶ of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land²⁷ had rest from war.