Yosua 14

1 Esiae nye ale si woma Kanaanyigba si le Yɔdan tɔsisi la ƒe ɣetoɖoƒe la na Israelviwoe. Nunɔla Eleazar kple Yosua, Nun ƒe vi kple Israel ƒe towo ƒe ƒomewo ƒe kplɔlawo ma anyigba la na ameawo.

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 Abe ale si Yehowa ɖo na Mose ene la, woda akɔ hena anyigba si le Yɔdan tɔsisi la ƒe ɣetoɖoƒe la mama ɖe Israel ƒe to asiekɛ kple afã mamlɛawo dome.

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

3 Mose tsɔ to eve kple afã ƒe domenyinu na wo le Yɔdan tɔsisi la ƒe ɣedzeƒe, ke mena domenyinu aɖeke Levitɔwo ɖe ame bubuawo dome o,

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 elabena Yosef ƒe viwo va zu to eve, siwo nye Manase kple Efraim. Womema anyigba na Levitɔwo o, ke boŋ du siwo me woanɔ kple lãnyiƒewo ko wona wo.

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 Ale wowɔ se si Yehowa de na Mose la dzi pɛpɛpɛ le anyigba la mama me.

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

6 Kaleb nɔ ŋgɔ na ame dɔdɔ aɖewo tso Yuda ƒe to la me, eye wova Yosua gbɔ le Gilgal. Kaleb Kenizitɔ gblɔ na Yosua be, “Èɖo ŋku nya si Yehowa gblɔ na Mose tso nye kple wò ŋu esime míenɔ Kades Barnea la dzia?

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 Mexɔ ƒe blaene ɣe ma ɣi. Mose dɔ mí tso Kades Barnea be míatsa ŋku le Kanaanyigba la dzi. Esi míegbɔ la, megblɔ nu si mekpɔ tututu la nɛ,

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 ke nɔvinye ŋkutsala bubuawo ya do vɔvɔ̃ na ameawo, eye woɖe dzi le wo ƒo dzodzro le Ŋugbedodonyigba la dzi yiyi ŋu. Zi ale si menɔ Yehowa, nye Mawu, yome ta la,

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 Mose gblɔ nam be, ‘Kanaanyigba la ƒe akpa si dzi miele la, azu wò kple wò dzidzimeviwo tɔ tegbetegbe.’

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 “Abe ale si wò ŋutɔ nènya ene la, Yehowa lé agbe ɖe te nam, eye wòna lãmesesẽm tso ɣe ma ɣi va se ɖe fifia, le ƒe blaene-vɔ-atɔ̃ siawo me, tso esime míetsa tsaglalã le gbedzi. Egbe la, mexɔ ƒe blaenyi-vɔ-atɔ̃,

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 gake ŋusẽ le ŋunye fifia abe ale si menɔ esime Mose ɖo mí ɖe ŋkutsaƒe ene. Magate ŋu azɔ mɔ, awɔ aʋa fifia abe ɣe ma ɣi ene,

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 eya ta mele bia wòm be nàtsɔ tonyigba si ŋugbe Yehowa do nam la nam. Èɖo ŋku edzi be le míaƒe ŋkutsatsa me la, míekpɔ Anakviwo wonɔ du gã siwo woɖo gli ƒo xlãe la me. Ke ne Yehowa li kplim la, manya wo ɖa le anyigba la dzi.”

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 Yosua yra Kaleb, Yefune vi, eye wòtsɔ Hebron du la nɛ abe eƒe domenyinu ene.

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

14 Hebron ganye Kaleb, si nye Yefune, ame si hã nye Kenizitɔ la ƒe vi ƒe dzidzimeviwo tɔ va se ɖe egbe, elabena Kaleb ɖo to Yehowa, Israel ƒe Mawu la.

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 Wotsɔ Anakitɔwo ƒe ame xɔŋkɔ aɖe ƒe ŋkɔ na Hebron, eya ta woyɔnɛ tsã be, Kiriat Arba. Tso esime Israelviwo xɔ anyigba la, eye wonɔ edzi ko la, afi ma tɔwo megaho aʋa ɖe wo ŋu kpɔ o.

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.