Now Joshua was old and advanced in age; and Jehovah said to him, You are old and advanced in age, and very much of the land remains to be possessed.

This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all that of the Geshurites,

From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, unto the border of Ekron on the north (this is considered to be Canaanite), with five lords of the Philistines: the Gazite and the Ashdodite, the Ashkelonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite; and that of the Avvim

In the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, unto Aphek at the border of the Amorites;

And the land of the Gebalites and all Lebanon toward the rising of the sun, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;

All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians. I Myself will drive them out before the children of Israel; nevertheless  ¹allot it to Israel as an inheritance as I have commanded you.

And now  ¹divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

With  ¹the other half-tribe of Manasseh the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave to them across the Jordan on the east, as Moses the servant of Jehovah gave to them:

From Aroer, which is on the edge of the river Arnon, and from the city, which is in the middle of the river valley, and all the tableland from Medeba to Dibon;

And all the cities of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;

And Gilead with the territory of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon and all Bashan unto Salecah;

All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); and Moses struck them and dispossessed them.

Yet the children of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites and the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

However to the tribe of Levi he did not give an inheritance; the  ¹offerings of Jehovah the God of Israel by fire are their inheritance, as He had spoken to him.

And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families.

And for them the border was from Aroer, which is on the edge of the river Arnon, and from the city, which is in the middle of the river valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;

Heshbon and all its cities which are in the tableland: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon

And Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath

And Kiriathaim and Sibmah and Zereth-shahar on the mountain of the valley

And Beth-peor and the slopes of Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth;

That is, all the cities of the tableland and all the kingdom of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon and whom Moses struck with the leaders of Midian: Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon who inhabited the land.

And Balaam the son of Beor, who practiced divination, the children of Israel slew with the sword with those of them who were already slain.

And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan and its border. This is the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities with their villages.

And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.

And for them the border was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon to Aroer, which is before Rabbah;

And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir;

And in the valley Beth-haram and Beth-nimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon the king of Heshbon; the Jordan and its border to the end of the Sea of Chinnereth, across the Jordan on the east.

This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities with their villages.

And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their families.

And their border was from Mahanaim and all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, and all the  ¹tent villages of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

And half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir, according to their families.

These are what Moses gave as inheritances in the plains of Moab across the Jordan at Jericho to the east.

But to the tribe of Levi Moses did not give an inheritance;  ¹Jehovah the God of Israel is their inheritance, as He had spoken to them.

And these are what the children of Israel received as inheritances in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel gave to them as inheritances,

By the  ¹lot of their inheritance, as Jehovah commanded through Moses for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe across the Jordan;

but to the Levites he did not give an inheritance among them.

For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in with their pasture lands for their cattle and their substance.

As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; thus they divided the land.

Then the children of Judah approached Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the word that Jehovah spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.

I was forty years old when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me out from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned such a word to him as was genuinely upon my heart.

However my brothers who went up with me made the people's heart melt, but I fully followed Jehovah my God.

And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, for you have fully followed Jehovah my God.

And now, look, Jehovah has kept me alive, as He said, for these forty-five years, since the time Jehovah spoke this word to Moses while Israel walked through the wilderness. And now, look, today I am eighty-five years old.

Today I am still as strong as I was on the day Moses sent me out; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for battle and for going out and coming in.

Now therefore give me this hill country, of which Jehovah spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that the  ¹Anakim were there with great fortified cities. It may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I will dispossess them, as Jehovah said.

So Joshua blessed him; and he gave  ¹Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.

Therefore Hebron has become the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day because he fully followed Jehovah the God of Israel.

And the name of Hebron was formerly Kiriath-arba. (This Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.) And the land had rest from war.

And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was unto the border of Edom, to the wilderness of Zin at the south; this was the southern extreme.

And their southern border was from the end of the Salt Sea, from the tongue-shaped bay that faces south;

And it went southward to the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed on to Zin, and went up south of Kadesh-barnea, and passed on to Hezron, and went up to Addar, and went around Karka,

And passed on to Azmon, and went out to the brook of Egypt; and the end of the border was at the sea. This shall be your southern border.

And the eastern border was the Salt Sea to the end of the Jordan. And the border on the northern side was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan.

And the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and passed on to the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;

And the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and turned northward toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim, which is south of the river valley; and the border passed on to the waters of En-shemesh; and its end was at En-rogel;

Then the border went up by the  ¹Valley of Ben-hinnom to the south of the Jebusite slope (this is Jerusalem); and the border went to the top of the mountain that is before the Valley of Hinnom on the west, which is the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim;

And the border turned from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and went to the cities of Mount Ephron; then the border turned toward Baalah (this is Kiriath-jearim);

And the border went around west of Baalah to Mount Seir, and passed by the northern slope of Mount Jearim (this is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to Timnah;

And the border went to the slope of Ekron northward; and the border turned toward Shikkeron, and passed by Mount Baalah, and went to Jabneel; and the end of the border was at the sea.

And the western border was the Great Sea and its coast. This is the border of the children of Judah all around according to their families.

And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Judah according to the commandment of Jehovah to Joshua, that is, Kiriath-arba (Arba was the father of  ¹Anak); this is Hebron.

And Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak from there: Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak.

And he went up from there to the inhabitants of Debir. (Now the name of Debir was formerly Kiriath-sepher.)

And Caleb said, Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and takes it, I will give to him Achsah my daughter as wife.

Then Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

And when she came to him, she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she alighted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, What do you want?

And she said, Give me a blessing, for you have given me land in the Negev; give me also springs of water. So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom on the south were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur

And Kinah and Dimonah and Adadah

And Kedesh and Hazor and Ithnan;

Ziph and Telem and Bealoth

And Hazor-hadattah and Kerioth-hezron (this is Hazor);

Amam and Shema and Moladah

And Hazar-gaddah and Heshmon and Beth-pelet

And Hazar-shual and Beer-sheba and Biziothiah;

Baalah and Iim and Ezem

And Eltolad and Chesil and Hormah

And Ziklag and Madmannah and Sansannah

And Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon: in all twenty-nine cities with their villages.

In the lowland: Eshtaol and Zorah and Ashnah

And Zanoah and En-gannim; Tappuah and Enam;

Jarmuth and Adullam; Socoh and Azekah

And Shaaraim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim: fourteen cities with their villages.

Zenan and Hadashah and Migdal-gad

And Dilean and Mizpeh and Joktheel;

Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon

And Cabbon and Lahmas and Chitlish

And Gederoth; Beth-dagon and Naamah and Makkedah: sixteen cities with their villages.

Libnah and Ether and Ashan

And Iphtah and Ashnah and Nezib

And Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah: nine cities with their villages.

Ekron, with its  ¹towns and its villages;

From Ekron even to the sea, all that were near Ashdod, with their villages.

Ashdod, with its towns and its villages; Gaza, with its towns and its villages, unto the brook of Egypt and the Great Sea and its border.

And in the hill country: Shamir and Jattir and Socoh

And Dannah and Kiriath-sannah (this is Debir)

And Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim

And Goshen and Holon and Giloh: eleven cities with their villages.

Arab and Dumah and Eshan

And Janum and Beth-tappuah and Aphekah

And Humtah and Kiriath-arba (this is Hebron) and Zior: nine cities with their villages.

Maon, Carmel, and Ziph; and Juttah

And Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah;

Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah: ten cities with their villages.

Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor;

And Maarath and Beth-anoth and Eltekon: six cities with their villages.

Kiriath-baal (this is Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah: two cities with their villages.

In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah;

And Nibshan and the City of Salt and En-gedi: six cities with their villages.

But as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not dispossess them; thus the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah in Jerusalem to this day.