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Joshua 15:12-20 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

12. The western border was the Great Sea and its coastline. These were the borders around the children of Judah according to their clans.

13. Now to Caleb son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, at the command of Adonai to Joshua—Kiriath-arba, which is Hebron (Arba was the father of Anak).

14. So Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—Sheshai, Ahiman and Talmai, children of Anak.

15. Then he went up from there against the inhabitants of Debir (now the name of Debir formerly was Kiriath-sepher).

16. Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Achsah as a wife to the one who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it.”

17. So Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s kinsman, captured it, so he gave him his daughter Achsah as a wife.

18. Now it came about when she came to him, that she persuaded Othniel to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her: “What do you need?”

19. “Give me a blessing,” she said. “For you have given me land in the Negev, you should also give me springs of water.” So he gave her the Upper Springs and the Lower Springs.

20. This is the portion of the tribe of the children of Judah by their clans:

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