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Joshua 14 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:1 - 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:2 - Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:3 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:4 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:5 - As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:6 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:7 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:8 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:9 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:10 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:11 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:12 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:13 - And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:14 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 14:15 - 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.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
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