¹⁸ Now it occurred that as Jesus was praying privately, the disciples were with Him, and He asked them, Who do men say that I am?

¹⁹ And they answered, John the Baptist; but some say, Elijah; and others, that one of the ancient prophets has come back to life.

²⁰ And He said to them, But who do you [yourselves] say that I am? And Peter replied, The Christ of God!

²¹ But He strictly charged and sharply commanded them [^[a]under penalty] to tell this to no one [no one, ^[b]whoever he might be],

²² Saying, The Son of Man must suffer many things and be [^[c]deliberately] disapproved and repudiated and rejected on the part of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be put to death and on the third day be raised [again].

²³ And He said to all, If any person wills to come after Me, let him deny himself [^[d]disown himself, ^[e]forget, lose sight of himself and his own interests, ^[f]refuse and give up himself] and take up his cross daily and follow Me [^[g]cleave steadfastly to Me, conform wholly to My example in living and, if need be, in dying also].

²⁴ For whoever would preserve his life and save it will lose and destroy it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he will preserve and save it [^[h]from the penalty of eternal death].

²⁵ For what does it profit a man, if he gains the whole world and ruins or forfeits (loses) himself?

²⁶ Because whoever is ashamed of Me and of My teachings, of him will the Son of Man be ashamed when He comes in the [^[i]threefold] glory (the splendor and majesty) of Himself and of the Father and of the holy angels.

²⁷ However I tell you truly, there are some of those standing here who will not taste death before they see the kingdom of God.

²⁸ Now about eight days after these teachings, Jesus took with Him Peter and John and James and went up on the mountain to pray.

²⁹ And as He was praying, the appearance of His countenance became altered (different), and His raiment became dazzling white [^[j]flashing with the brilliance of lightning].

³⁰ And behold, two men were conversing with Him—Moses and Elijah,

³¹ Who appeared in splendor and majesty and brightness and were speaking of His exit [from life], which He was about to bring to realization at Jerusalem.

³² Now Peter and those with him were weighed down with sleep, but when they fully awoke, they saw His glory (splendor and majesty and brightness) and the two men who stood with Him.

³³ And it occurred as the men were parting from Him that Peter said to Jesus, Master, it is delightful and good that we are here; and let us construct three booths or huts—one for You and one for Moses and one for Elijah! not noticing or knowing what he was saying.

³⁴ But even as he was saying this, a cloud came and began to overshadow them, and they were seized with alarm and struck with fear as they entered into the cloud.

³⁵ Then there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is My Son, My Chosen One or ^[k]My Beloved; listen to and yield to and obey Him!

³⁶ And when the voice had died away, Jesus was found there alone. And they kept still, and told no one at that time any of these things that they had seen.

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13 Now Joshua was old and gone far in years [over 100], and the Lord said to him, You have grown old and are gone far in years, and very much of the land still remains to be possessed.

² This is the land that remains: all the regions of the Philistines and all those of the Geshurites:

³ From the Shihor [River] which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, all of it counted as Canaanite; there are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, and those of the Avvites;

⁴ In the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah, which belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of the Amorites,

⁵ And the land of the Gebalites; and all Lebanon toward the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to the gate of Hamath.

⁶ As for all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians, I will Myself drive them out from before the Israelites; only allot the land to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.

⁷ So now divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

⁸ With the other half-tribe of Manasseh, the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them:

⁹ From Aroer on the edge of the Valley of the [river] Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon;

¹⁰ And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites;

¹¹ And Gilead, and the region of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah—

¹² All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei and alone was left of the Rephaim [giants]; for these Moses had defeated and driven out.

¹³ Yet the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell among [them] still.

¹⁴ Only to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the sacrifices made by fire to the Lord, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, as He said to him.

¹⁵ And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the Reubenites according to their families:

¹⁶ Their territory was from Aroer on the edge of the Valley of the [river] Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all the tableland by Medeba;

¹⁷ With Heshbon and all its cities which are on the plain; Dibon, Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,

¹⁸ Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,

¹⁹ Kiriathaim, Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,

²⁰ Beth-peor, Pisgah’s slopes, and Beth-jeshimoth,

²¹ All the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses defeated along with the leaders of Midian, Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon who lived in the land.

²² Balaam son of Beor, the soothsayer, the Israelites also killed with the sword among the rest of their slain.^(A)

²³ And the border of the Reubenites was the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites according to their families, with their cities and villages.

²⁴ Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of the Gadites according to their families.

²⁵ Their territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer east of Rabbah;

²⁶ And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the territory of Debir;

²⁷ And in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the realm of Sihon king of Heshbon, with the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chinnereth east of the Jordan.

²⁸ This is the inheritance of the Gadites according to their families, with their cities and villages.

²⁹ And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh; it was allotted to them according to their families.

³⁰ Their region extended from Mahanaim through all Bashan, the entire kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities,

³¹ And half of Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan; these were allotted to the people of Machir son of Manasseh for half of the Machirites according to their families.

³² These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan east of Jericho.

³³ But to the tribe of Levi, Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He told them.

14 These are the inheritances in the land of Canaan distributed to the Israelites by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of their tribes.

² Their inheritance was by lot, as the Lord commanded Moses, for the nine and one-half tribes.

³ For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them,

⁴ For the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no part was given in the land to the Levites except cities in which to live, with their pasturelands for their livestock and for their possessions.

⁵ As the Lord commanded Moses, so the Israelites did, and they divided the land.

⁶ Then the people of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadesh-barnea.

⁷ Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to scout out the land. And I brought him a report as it was in my heart.

⁸ But my brethren who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.

⁹ And Moses swore on that day, Surely the land on which your feet have walked shall be an inheritance to you and your children always, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.^(B)

¹⁰ And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while the Israelites wandered in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

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

¹² So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke that day. For you heard then how the [giantlike] Anakim were there and that the cities were great and fortified; if the Lord will be with me, I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.

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

¹⁴ So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

¹⁵ The name of Hebron before was Kiriath-arba [city of Arba]. This Arba was the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.

15 The lot for the tribe of Judah according to its families reached southward to the boundary of Edom, to the Wilderness of Zin at its most southern part.

² And their south boundary was from the end of the Salt [Dead] Sea, from the bay that faces southward;

³ It went out south of the ascent of Akrabbim, passed along to Zin, and went up south of Kadesh-barnea, along by Hezron, up to Addar, and turned about to Karka,

⁴ Passed along to Azmon, went out by the Brook of Egypt, and ended at the sea. This was their southern frontier.

⁵ The eastern boundary was the Salt [Dead] Sea as far as the mouth of the Jordan. The northern boundary was from the bay of the sea at the mouth of the Jordan;

⁶ And the boundary went up to Beth-hogla and passed along north of Beth-arabah and [it] went up to the [landmark] Stone of Bohan son of Reuben.

⁷ And the boundary went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and so northward, turning toward Gilgal, which is opposite the ascent to Adummim on the south side of the valley; and it passed on to the waters of En-shemesh and ended at En-rogel.

⁸ Then the boundary went up by the Valley of Ben-hinnom [son of Hinnom] at the southern shoulder of the Jebusite [city]—that is, Jerusalem; and the boundary went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the Valley of Hinnom on the west, at the northern end of the Valley of Rephaim.

⁹ Then the boundary extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah and went on to the cities of Mount Ephron; then it bent round to Baalah, that is, Kiriath-jearim.

¹⁰ And the boundary went around west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passed along to the northern side of Mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, went down to Beth-shemesh, and then passed on by Timnah.

¹¹ And the boundary went out to the shoulder of the hill north of Ekron, then bent round to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel. Then the boundary ended at the sea.

¹² And the west boundary was the Great Sea with its coastline. This is the boundary round about the people of Judah according to their families.

¹³ And to Caleb son of Jephunneh, [Joshua] gave a part among the people of Judah, as the Lord commanded [him]; it was Kiriath-arba, which is Hebron, [named for] Arba the father of Anak.

¹⁴ And Caleb drove from there the three sons of Anak—Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai—the descendants of Anak.

¹⁵ He went up from there against the people of Debir. Debir was formerly named Kiriath-sepher.

¹⁶ Caleb said, He who smites Kiriath-sepher and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.

¹⁷ And Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.

¹⁸ When Achsah came to Othniel, she got his consent to ask her father for a field. Then she returned to Caleb and when she lighted off her donkey, Caleb said, What do you wish?

¹⁹ Achsah answered, Give me a present. Since you have set me in the [dry] Negeb, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the [sloping field with] upper and lower springs.

²⁰ This is the inheritance of the tribe of Judah according to their families.

²¹ The cities of the tribe of Judah in the extreme south toward the boundary of Edom were: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

²² Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,

²³ Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,

²⁴ Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,

²⁵ Hazor-hadattah, Kerioth-hezron (Hazor),

²⁶ Amam, Shema, Moladah,

²⁷ Hazar-gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-pelet,

²⁸ Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

²⁹ Baalah, Iim, Ezem,

³⁰ Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,

³¹ Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,

³² Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities were twenty-nine [later thirty-six] with their villages.

³³ In the lowland: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,

³⁴ Zanoah, En-gannim, Tappuah, Enam,

³⁵ Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,

³⁶ Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

³⁷ Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-gad,

³⁸ Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,

³⁹ Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,

⁴⁰ Cabbon, Lahmas, Chitlish,

⁴¹ Gederoth, Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

⁴² Libnah, Ether, Ashan,

⁴³ Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,

⁴⁴ Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages.

⁴⁵ Ekron, with its towns and villages.

⁴⁶ From Ekron to the sea, all that lay beside Ashdod, with their villages;

⁴⁷ Ashdod, with its towns and its villages; Gaza, with its towns and its villages, as far as the Brook of Egypt, and the Great [Mediterranean] Sea with its coastline.

⁴⁸ In the hill country: Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,

⁴⁹ Dannah, Kiriath-sannah (that is, Debir),

⁵⁰ Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,

⁵¹ Goshen, Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages.

⁵² Arab, Dumah, Eshan,

⁵³ Janim, Beth-tappuah, Aphekah,

⁵⁴ Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

⁵⁵ Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,

⁵⁶ Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,

⁵⁷ Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages.

⁵⁸ Halhul, Beth-zur, Gedor,

⁵⁹ Maarath, Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

⁶⁰ Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim) and Rabbah; two cities with their villages.

⁶¹ In the wilderness: Beth-arabah, Middin, Secacah,

⁶² Nibshan, the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their villages.

⁶³ But the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the people of Judah could not drive out; so the Jebusites dwell with the people of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.