1 Dette er de arveloddene som Israels barn tok i Kanaans land, som Eleasar, presten, og Josva, sønn av Nun, og høvdingene for Israels barns stammer delte ut til dem;

And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave out to them;

2 Deres arv var etter Herrens beslutning, slik han ga befalinger gjennom Moses, for de ni stammene og den halve stammen.

Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe.

3 For Moses hadde gitt arv til de to stammene og den halve stammen på den andre siden av Jordan, men til levittene ga han ingen arv blant dem.

For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.

4 For Josefs barn utgjorde to stammer, Manasse og Efraim; og de ga ikke levittene noen del i landet, bare byer til å bo i, med beiteland for deres kveg og eiendom.

Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.

5 Som Herren hadde gitt befaling til Moses, gjorde Israels folk, og de delte landet.

As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land.

6 Da kom Judas barn til Josva i Gilgal; og Kaleb, sønn av Jefunne, kenisitten, sa til ham: Du vet hva Herren talte til Moses, gudsmannen, om meg og om deg i Kadesj-Barnea.

Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You have knowledge of what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea.

7 Jeg var førti år gammel da Moses, Herrens tjener, sendte meg fra Kadesj-Barnea for å utforske landet; og den rapporten jeg ga ham, var i samsvar med hans ønske.

I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire.

8 Mine brødre derimot, som gikk opp med meg, skremte folkets hjerter: men jeg var trofast mot Herren av hele mitt hjerte.

My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart.

9 Den dagen sverget Moses en ed og sa: Sannelig, det landet hvor dine føtter har trådt, skal bli en arv for deg og dine barn for evig, fordi du har vært trofast mot Herren din Gud av hele ditt hjerte.

And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart.

10 Og nå, som du ser, har Herren bevart meg i live disse førtifem årene, fra den tid Herren talte dette til Moses, mens Israel vandret i ørkenen: nå er jeg åttifem år gammel.

And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.

11 Og ennå er jeg like sterk i dag som jeg var den dag Moses sendte meg ut: slik min styrke var da, er den fremdeles, både for krig og for alt livets virke.

And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life.

12 Gi meg derfor dette fjellandet som Herren talte om den gang; for du hørte om det da, hvordan anakittene var der, og store befestede byer: det kan hende at Herren vil være med meg, og jeg vil kunne ta deres land, som Herren sa.

So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said.

13 Og Josva velsignet ham; og han ga Hebron til Kaleb, sønn av Jefunne, til arv.

And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.

14 Så ble Hebron Kalebs arv, sønn av Jefunne, kenisitten, til denne dag, fordi han av hele sitt hjerte var trofast mot Herren, Israels Gud.

So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel.

15 Tidligere hadde Hebron blitt kalt Kirjat-Arba, etter Arba, den største blant anakittene. Og landet hadde fred fra krig.

In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.