Joshua 14

¹ Wetin follow so na the account of how dem divide the land of Canaan wey dey west of Jordan among people of Israel. Na Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders of Israelite tribes divide am for the population.

² As God don command Moses, na lots dem use share the territories of the nine and half tribes for west of Jordan.

³ Moses don already give the other two and half tribes the land wey dey east of Jordan. (Descendants of Joseph dey divided to two tribes: Manasseh and Ephraim.)

⁴ But Moses no give Levites any portion of land. Instead, dem receive cities to dey live, with their fields for cattle and flocks.

⁵ The people of Israel divide the land as God don command Moses.

⁶ One day some people from Judah tribe come meet Joshua for Gildal. One of them, Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, tell him say, “You know wetin God talk for Kadesh Barnea about me and you to Moses, the man of God.

⁷ I be forty years old when God servant Moses send me for Kadesh Barnea to come check this land in secret. Na honest report I bring come back to him.

⁸ But the men wey follow con make the people dey fear. But I obey the LORD my God.

⁹ Because I do so, Moses promise me and my children say I go get the land wey I waka on top as my own.

¹⁰ But see now, e don reach 45 years since God don tell Moses that. Na when Israel dey go through desert be that, and as God don promise, he don keep me alive since then. Look at me! I be 85 years old

¹¹ and I still dey strong today like I be when Moses send me out. I still dey strong enough for war or another thing.

¹² Now, make you give me the hill country wey God promise me on that day when me and my men report. We tell you say the race of giants wey dem dey call Anakim still dey there for big wall cities. Maybe God go dey with me, and I go drive them out, just as God talk am.

¹³ Joshua con bless Caleb son of Jephunneh and give him city of Hebron as him own.

¹⁴ Hebron still belong to the descendants of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, because he obey the LORD, God of Israel.

¹⁵ Before this, dem dey Hebron city of Arba. (Na Arba great pass out of the Anakim.) Peace con dey the land.