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Judges 1:14

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When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

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Judges 1:14 in other translations

And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?

Judges 1:14 · American Standard Version

Judges 1:14 in context

  1. 12Caleb said, “I will give Achsah my daughter as wife to the man who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it.”
  2. 13Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it, so he gave him Achsah his daughter as his wife.
  3. 14When she came, she got him to ask her father for a field. She got off her donkey; and Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”
  4. 15She said to him, “Give me a blessing; because you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water.” Then Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
  5. 16The children of the Kenite, Moses’ brother-in-law, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and lived with the people.