Joshua 15:16 - Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition

¹⁶ He told his men, “The man who captures Kiriath-Sepher can marry my daughter Achsah.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter in marriage to whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And Caleb said, "Whoever will have struck down Kiriath-Sepher, and will have seized it, I will give to him Achsah, my daughter, as wife."

Joshua 15:16 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 2:49

Later, they had two more sons: Shaaph the father of Madmannah, and Sheva the father of Machbenah and Gibea. Caleb's daughter was Achsah.

Joshua 15:15

Next, Caleb started a war with the town of Debir, which at that time was called Kiriath-Sepher.

Joshua 15:17

Caleb's nephew Othniel captured Kiriath-Sepher, and Caleb let him marry Achsah.

Judges 1:6

The king tried to escape, but soldiers from Judah caught him. They cut off his thumbs and big toes,

1 Samuel 17:25

They said to each other, “Look how he keeps coming out to insult us. The king is offering a big reward to the man who kills Goliath. That man will even get to marry the king's daughter, and no one in his family will ever have to pay taxes again.”