2tn Heb “By lot was their inheritance, as the Lord had commanded by Moses, to the nine tribes and the half-tribe.”

3tn Or “assigned an inheritance.”

4tn Or “no inheritance.”

5tn The Hebrew text adds, “in their midst.”

6tn Heb “and they did not assign a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities [in which] to live and their pastures for their cattle and property.”

7tn Heb “Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided up the land.”

8tn Heb “You know the word which the Lord spoke to Moses, the man of God, because of me and because of you in Kadesh Barnea.”

sn On this incident at Kadesh Barnea see Num 14:30.

9tn Heb “and I brought back to him a word just as [was] in my heart.”

10tn Heb “brothers.”

11tn Heb “went up with.”

12tn Heb “made the heart[s] of the people melt.”

13tn Heb “I filled up after the Lord my God,” an idiomatic statement meaning that Caleb remained loyal to the Lord.

14tn Heb “swore an oath.”

15tn Heb “on which your foot has walked.”

16tn Heb “will belong to you for an inheritance, and to your sons forever.”

17tn Heb “like my strength then, like my strength now, for battle and for going out and coming in.”

18tn Heb “are there and large, fortified cities.”

19tn Or “will dispossess.”

20tn Heb “Joshua blessed him and gave Hebron to Caleb son of Jephunneh as an inheritance.”

21tn Heb “Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh for an inheritance to this day.”

22tn Heb “And he was the great man among the Anakites.”