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14 Later on, after she had arrived, she urged Othniel[a] to ask her father for a field. As she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you want[b] for yourself?”

15 “I want this blessing from you,” she replied. “Since you’ve given me land in the Negev,[c] give me water springs, too.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

The Capture of Certain Southern Territories

16 The descendants of the Kenites, the tribe from which[d] Moses’ father-in-law came, accompanied the descendants of Judah from the city of the palms to the Judean wilderness, which is in the desert area south of Arad, and lived with the people there.

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 1:14 Lit. him
  2. Judges 1:14 The Heb. lacks do you want
  3. Judges 1:15 I.e. the southern region of Israel; cf. Josh 10:40
  4. Judges 1:16 The Heb. lacks the tribe from which