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And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them.
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By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.
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For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.
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For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
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As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.
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Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
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Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
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Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
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And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
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And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
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As 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.
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Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
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And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
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Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
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And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
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This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast.
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And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
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And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
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From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.
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And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
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And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
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And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
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And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
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And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
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And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
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And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
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And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
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And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
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And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
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And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.
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And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
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And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
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And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
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Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.
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This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
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And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
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And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
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And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
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Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
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And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor,
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Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
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And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
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And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
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Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
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And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
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And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
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And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:
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And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
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And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
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Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
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And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
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Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
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And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
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Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
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And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
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And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages:
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Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
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And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
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And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
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Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
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From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:
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Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border thereof:
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And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
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And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,
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And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
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And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
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Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
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And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
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And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine cities with their villages:
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Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
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And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
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Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
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Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
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And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages:
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Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with their villages:
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In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
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And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
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As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
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There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band,
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A devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God alway.
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He saw in a vision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him, and saying unto him, Cornelius.
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And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.
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And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:
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He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.
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And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;
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And when he had declared all these things unto them, he sent them to Joppa.
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On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour:
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And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, he fell into a trance,
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And saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth:
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Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls of the air.
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And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
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But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
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And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
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This was done thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven.
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Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and stood before the gate,
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And called, and asked whether Simon, which was surnamed Peter, were lodged there.
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While Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.
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Arise therefore, and get thee down, and go with them, doubting nothing: for I have sent them.
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Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius; and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?
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And they said, Cornelius the centurion, a just man, and one that feareth God, and of good report among all the nation of the Jews, was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house, and to hear words of thee.
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Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.
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And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.
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And as Peter was coming in, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.
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But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.
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And as he talked with him, he went in, and found many that were come together.
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And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.
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Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?
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And Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing,
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And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.
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Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.
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Immediately therefore I sent to thee; and thou hast well done that thou art come. Now therefore are we all here present before God, to hear all things that are commanded thee of God.
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Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
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But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.
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The word which God sent unto the children of Israel, preaching peace by Jesus Christ: (he is Lord of all:)
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That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judaea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;
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How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
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And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom they slew and hanged on a tree:
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Him God raised up the third day, and shewed him openly;
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Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before of God, even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
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And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead.
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To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
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While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.
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And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.
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For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter,
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Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we?
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And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
