1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them, 2 by the lot of their inheritance, as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe. 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property. 5 The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
6 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God. 9 Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.’
10 "Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today. 11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in. 12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh said."
13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed Yahweh, the God of Israel wholeheartedly. 15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.
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.