Joshua 14

1 These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,

١ وَأَوْرَثَ أَلِعَازَارُ الْكَاهِنُ وَيَشُوعُ بْنُ نُونَ وَقَادَةُ الشَّعْبِ أَبْنَاءَ إِسْرَائِيلَ الأَرَاضِي الَّتِي اسْتَوْلَوْا عَلَيْهَا فِي كَنْعَانَ

2 by the lot of their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

٢ وَتَمَّ تَوْزِيعُهَا عَلَى التِّسْعَةِ الأَسْبَاطِ وَنِصْفِ السِّبْطِ بِالْقُرْعَةِ بِمُوْجِبِ مَا أَمَرَ الرَّبُّ بِهِ عَلَى لِسَانِ مُوسَى

3 For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance amongst them.

٣ إِذْ إِنَّ مُوسَى كَانَ قَدْ وَهَبَ السِّبْطَيْنِ وَنِصْفَ السِّبْطِ مِيرَاثاً فِي شَرْقِيِّ نَهْرِ الأُرْدُنِّ، وَأَمَّا اللّاوِيُّونَ فَلَمْ يُوَرِّثْهُمْ نَصِيباً بَيْنَهُمْ،

4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. They gave no portion to the Levites in the land, except cities to dwell in, with their pasture lands for their livestock and for their property.

٤ لأَنَّ ذُرِّيَّةَ يُوسُفَ كَانَتْ تَنْتَمِي إِلَى سِبْطَيْ مَنَسَّى وَأَفْرَايِمَ، أَمَّا اللّاوِيُّونَ فَلَمْ يُوَزِّعْ مُوسَى عَلَيْهِمْ أَرْضاً وَلَمْ يُوَرِّثْهُمْ سِوَى مُدُنٍ يُقِيمُونَ فِيهَا وَمَرَاعٍ مُجَاوِرَةٍ لِرَعْيِ مَوَاشِيهِمْ وَبَهَائِمِهِمْ.

5 The children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

٥ وَهَكَذَا قَسَمَ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ الأَرْضَ طِبْقاً لأَمْرِ الرَّبِّ لِمُوسَى.

6 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal. Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know the thing that the LORD spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh Barnea.

٦ وَأَقْبَلَ وَفْدٌ مِنْ سِبْطِ يَهُوذَا عَلَى يَشُوعَ فِي الْجِلْجَالِ، وَقَالَ لَهُ كَالَبُ بْنُ يَفُنَّةَ الْقَنِزِّيُّ: «أَنْتَ تَذْكُرُ مَا خَاطَبَ بِهِ الرَّبُّ مُوسَى رَجُلَ اللهِ بِشَأْنِي وَشَأْنِكَ فِي قَادَشَ بَرْنِيعَ،

7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

٧ فَقَدْ كُنْتُ فِي الأَرْبَعِينَ مِنْ عُمْرِي حِينَ أَرْسَلَنِي مُوسَى عَبْدُ الرَّبِّ، مِنْ قَادَشَ بَرْنِيعَ لأَتَجَسَّسَ الأَرْضَ، فَعُدْتُ إِلَيْهِ وَأَنْبَأْتُهُ بِمَا كَانَ قَلْبِي مُقْتَنِعاً بِهِ.

8 Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

٨ أَمَّا إِخْوَتِي الَّذِينَ ذَهَبُوا مَعِي فَقَدْ مَلَأُوا قَلْبَ الشَّعْبِ رُعْباً بِأَخْبَارِهِمْ عَنْ أَهْلِ أَرْضِ الْمَوْعِدِ. لَكِنَّنِي اتَّبَعْتُ الرَّبَّ إِلَهِي مِنْ كُلِّ قَلْبِي.

9 Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely the land where you walked shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.’

٩ لِذَلِكَ حَلَفَ مُوسَى فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ قَائِلاً: إِنَّ الأَرْضَ الَّتِي وَطِئَتْهَا قَدَمَاكَ تَكُونُ لَكَ وَلأَوْلادِكَ نَصِيباً إِلَى الأَبَدِ، لأَنَّكَ اتَّبَعْتَ الرَّبَّ إِلَهِي مِنْ كُلِّ قَلْبِكَ.

10 “Now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.

١٠ وَهَا الرَّبُّ قَدْ أَبْقَانِي عَلَى قَيْدِ الْحَيَاةِ، كَمَا وَعَدَ، خَمْسَةً وَأَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً مُنْذُ أَنْ خَاطَبَ الرَّبُّ مُوسَى بِهَذَا الْكَلامِ حِينَ تَاهَ إِسْرَائِيلُ فِي الْقَفْرِ، فَأَصْبَحْتُ الآنَ فِي الْخَامِسَةِ وَالثَّمَانِينَ مِنْ عُمْرِي،

11 As yet I am as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me. As my strength was then, even so is my strength now for war, to go out and to come in.

١١ وَلَمْ أَزَلْ مُتَمَتِّعاً بِالْقُوَّةِ كَالْعَهْدِ بِي عِنْدَمَا أَرْسَلَنِي لِتَجَسُّسِ الأَرْضِ، فَقُوَّتِي مَا بَرِحَتْ كَمَا هِيَ إِنْ لِلْحَرْبِ أَوْ لِلدُّخُولِ وَالْخُرُوجِ.

12 Now therefore give me this hill country, of which the LORD spoke in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as the LORD said.”

١٢ وَالآنَ، هَبْنِي إِقْلِيمَ الْجَبَلِ الَّذِي تَكَلَّمَ عَنْهُ الرَّبُّ فِي ذَلِكَ الْيَوْمِ، لأَنَّكَ أَنْتَ بِنَفْسِكَ سَمِعْتَ آنَئِذٍ أَنَّ الْعَنَاقِيِّينَ كَانُوا هُنَاكَ، وَأَنَّ مُدُنَهُمْ ضَخْمَةٌ وَحَصِينَةٌ، لَعَلِّي أَطْرُدُهُمْ بِمَعُونَةِ الرَّبِّ كَمَا وَعَدَ».

13 Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

١٣ فَبَارَكَهُ يَشُوعُ وَأَعْطَاهُ حَبْرُونَ مِلْكاً لَهُ.

14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel wholeheartedly.

١٤ وَهَكَذَا وَرِثَ كَالَبُ بْنُ يَفُنَّةَ الْقَنِزِّيُّ حَبْرُونَ إِلَى هَذَا الْيَوْمِ، لأَنَّهُ اتَّبَعَ الرَّبَّ إِلَهَ إِسْرَائِيلَ مِنْ كُلِّ قَلْبِهِ.

15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man amongst the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.

١٥ وَكَانَتْ حَبْرُونُ تُدْعَى مِنْ قَبْلُ قَرْيَةَ أَرْبَعَ عَلَى اسْمِ بَطَلِ الْعَنَاقِيِّينَ الأَعْظَمِ. ثُمَّ اسْتَرَاحَتِ الأَرْضُ مِنَ الْحَرْبِ.