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18 When she came to Othniel, she pressured him to ask her father for some pastureland.[a] As she dismounted from the donkey, Caleb said to her, “What do you want?”

19 She said, “Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the dry Negev, you should also give me springs of water.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 15:18 As the text is translated here, Aksah urged her husband to ask her father for the land, but he apparently did not do so, which would account for her making the request herself. See Judges 1:14-15.