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Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

בִּ֠שְׁלֹחַ (בִּ֠) Bi “when”

Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh my God.

בַּיּ֣וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”בָּ֔הּ (בָּ֔) Ba “on <the>”

Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (בַּ) ba. “in the”

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

בְּי֨וֹם (בְּ) be. “on”

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

בַּיּ֣וֹם (בַּ) ba “on the”בַיּ֨וֹם (בַ) va “on the”

Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba; [supplied: which Arba was] the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.

בָּעֲנָקִ֖ים (בָּ) ba. “among the”

and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the valley of Rephaim northward;

בִּקְצֵ֥ה (בִּ) bi “[is] at”

To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, [supplied: which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).

בְּת֣וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

It happened, when she came [supplied: to him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her donkey; and Caleb said, What would you?

בְּבוֹאָ֗הּ (בְּ) be. “when”

The uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

בַּנֶּ֑גְבָּה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah,

בַּשְּׁפֵלָ֑ה (בַּ) ba. “in the”

In the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

וּבָהָ֑ר (בָ) va. “in the”

In the wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, and Secacah,

בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (בַּ) ba. “in the”

As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם (בִּ) bi. “in”

The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Bethel;

בָּהָ֖ר (בָּ) ba. “in the”

and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

בִּֽירִיח֔וֹ (בִּֽ) bi. “<on>”

together with the cities which were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.

בְּת֖וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “[are] in”

They didn't drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and are become servants to do forced labor.

בְּגָ֑זֶר (בְּ) be. “in”בְּקֶ֤רֶב (בְּ) be. “in”

They came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

בְּת֣וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”בְּת֖וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

בְּת֣וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out of it were at the sea:

בְּת֖וֹךְ (בְּ) be. “in”

southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

וּבְאָשֵׁר֙ (בְ) ve. “<on>”וּבְיִשָּׂשכָ֖ר (בְ) ve. “<on>”

Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights.

בְּיִשָּׂשכָ֣ר (בְּ) be. “in”וּבְאָשֵׁ֗ר (בְ) ve. “in”

Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out [supplied: the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

בָּאָ֥רֶץ (בָּ) ba. “in the”

Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.

בְּאֶ֥רֶץ (בְּ) be. “in”