1And these are the inheritances which the Israelites received in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the Israelites, allotted to them. 2These inheritances were allotted by lot, as the LORD had commanded by the word of Moses, for these nine and a half tribes. 3For Moses had given the inheritance to two and a half tribes on the east side of the Jordan; but he gave no inheritance among them to the Levites. 4The descendants of Joseph were split between two tribes - Manasseh and Ephraim; and they allotted no portion to the Levites in the land, except for cities to dwell in, along with their pasture lands for their cattle and for their sustenance. 5And so the Israelites divided the land, as the LORD commanded Moses.

6Then a delegation from Judah, led by Caleb, son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua in Gilgal; and, said: “You know what the LORD said to Moses, the man of God, concerning you and me in Kadesh-barnea. 7I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the LORD, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land; and I brought him my honest report, 8While my fellow Israelites who went with me brought a report that discouraged the people; I wholly followed the LORD my God. 9And Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land on which your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance, and that of your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God’. 10And now the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, since the LORD spoke that word to Moses, while the Israelites wandered in the wilderness; and now I am eighty-five years old. 11As 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. 12Now, therefore, give me this hill country, of which the LORD spoke on that day; for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, and that the cities were large and heavily fortified. But with help from the LORD, I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.” 13And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb for an inheritance. 14And so, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb, son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, as it is this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. 15Before that time, Hebron had been named Kiriath-arba, after Arba, a great man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.