Joshua 15:19 - Easy To Read Version

¹⁹ Acsah answered, “Give me a blessing. [58] You gave me dry desert land in the Negev. [59] Please give me some land with water on it.” So Caleb gave her what she wanted. He gave her the upper and lower pools of water in that land.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And she said, Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ She said, “Give me a blessing. Since the land you’ve given me is in the arid southern plain, you should also give me springs of water.” So he gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ But she answered: "Give a blessing to me. You have given to me a southern and dry land; join to it also a watered land." And so Caleb gave to her the watered land above and below it.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ But she answered: Give me a blessing. Thou hast given me a southern and dry land, give me also a land that is watered. And Caleb gave her the upper and the nether watery ground.

Joshua 15:19 Cross References

Genesis 12:9

After this, Abram began traveling again. He traveled toward the Negev. [74]

Genesis 33:11

So I beg that you also accept the gifts I give you. God has been very good to me. I have more than I need.” In this way Jacob begged Esau to take the gifts. So Esau accepted the gifts.

2 Corinthians 9:5

So I thought that I should ask these brothers to go to you before we come. They will finish making ready the gift you promised. Then the gift will be ready when we come, and it will be a gift you wanted to give—not a gift that you hated to give.

Deuteronomy 33:7

Moses said these things about Judah:

Joshua 15:18

Acsah went to live with Othniel. Othniel told Acsah [57] to ask her father Caleb for some more land. {Acsah went to her father.} When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you want?”

Joshua 15:20

The family group of Judah got the land that God promised them. Each family group got part of the land.

1 Samuel 25:27

Now, I am bringing this gift to you. Please give these things to your men.