1 En dit is wat die kinders van Israel as erfdeel in die land Kana„n ontvang het, wat Ele sar, die priester, en Josua, die seun van Nun, en die familiehoofde van die stamme van die kinders van Israel aan hulle as erfenis uitgedeel het

2 deur verloting van hulle erfdeel, soos die HERE deur die diens van Moses beveel het, met betrekking tot die nege en 'n halwe stam.

3 Want Moses het die erfdeel van die twee en 'n halwe stam oos van die Jordaan gegee, maar aan die Leviete het hy geen erfdeel onder hulle gegee nie.

4 Want die kinders van Josef was twee stamme: Manasse en Efraim; maar aan die Leviete het hulle geen aandeel in die land gegee nie, behalwe stede om in te woon, met hulle weiveld vir hulle vee en hulle goed.

5 Soos die HERE Moses beveel het, so het die kinders van Israel gedoen en die land verdeel.

6 Toe het die kinders van Juda nader gekom na Josua in Gilgal, en Kaleb, die seun van Jefunne, die Kenissiet, het vir hom gesê: U weet die woord wat die HERE met Moses, die man van God in Kades-Barn,a gespreek het met betrekking tot my en met betrekking tot u.

7 Veertig jaar was ek oud toe Moses, die kneg van die HERE, my uitgestuur het van Kades-Barn,a af om die land te verken, en ek het hom berig gebring soos dit in my hart was;

8 maar my broers wat saam met my opgetrek het, het die hart van die volk laat versmelt, terwyl ek volgehou het om die HERE my God te volg.

9 En die dag het Moses gesweer en gesê: Waarlik, die land wat jou voet betree het, sal aan jou en aan jou kinders in ewigheid as 'n erfdeel behoort, omdat jy volgehou het om die HERE my God te volg.

10 En nou, kyk, die HERE het my laat lewe, soos Hy gespreek het, nou al vyf en veertig jaar sedert die HERE hierdie woord met Moses gespreek het toe Israel in die woestyn getrek het; en kyk nou, ek is vandag vyf en tagtig jaar oud;

11 ek is vandag nog so sterk soos die dag toe Moses my uitgestuur het; soos my krag toe was, so is my krag nou nog, om te veg en om uit te gaan en in te gaan.

12 Gee my dan nou hierdie bergland waarvan die HERE daardie dag gespreek het; want u self het die dag gehoor dat d r Enakiete is en groot versterkte stede; miskien sal die HERE met my wees, sodat ek hulle kan verdrywe, soos die HERE gespreek het.

13 Toe het Josua hom geseënen aan Kaleb, die seun van Jefunne, Hebron as erfdeel gegee.

14 Daarom het Hebron die erfdeel geword van Kaleb, die seun van Jefunne, die Kenissiet, tot vandag toe, omdat hy volgehou het om die HERE, die God van Israel, te volg.

15 En die naam van Hebron was tevore stad van Arba; hy was die grootste man onder die Enakiete. En die land het gerus van oorlog.

1 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;

2 Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

3 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.

4 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.

5 As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land.

6 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.

7 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.

8 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.

9 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.

10 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.

11 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.

12 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.

13 And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.

14 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.

15 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.