10. The boundary circled west of Baalah to Mount Seir, passed along to the town of Kesalon on the northern slope of Mount Jearim, and went down to Beth-shemesh and on to Timnah.
11. The boundary then proceeded to the slope of the hill north of Ekron, where it turned toward Shikkeron and Mount Baalah. It passed Jabneel and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.
12. The western boundary was the shoreline of the Mediterranean Sea.These are the boundaries for the clans of the tribe of Judah.
13. The lord commanded Joshua to assign some of Judah’s territory to Caleb son of Jephunneh. So Caleb was given the town of Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), which had been named after Anak’s ancestor.
14. Caleb drove out the three groups of Anakites—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the sons of Anak.
15. From there he went to fight against the people living in the town of Debir (formerly called Kiriath-sepher).
16. Caleb said, “I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage to the one who attacks and captures Kiriath-sepher.”
17. Othniel, the son of Caleb’s brother Kenaz, was the one who conquered it, so Acsah became Othniel’s wife.
18. When Acsah married Othniel, she urged him to ask her father for a field. As she got down off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What’s the matter?”
19. She said, “Give me another gift. You have already given me land in the Negev; now please give me springs of water, too.” So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.
20. This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Judah.
21. The towns of Judah situated along the borders of Edom in the extreme south were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,