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For which reason they removed their camp to Hebron; and when they
had taken it, they slew all the inhabitants. There were till then left
the race of giants, who had bodies so large, and countenances so entirely
different from other men, that they were surprising to the sight, and terrible
to the hearing. The bones of these men are still shown to this very day,
unlike to any credible relations of other men. Now they gave this city
to the Levites as an extraordinary reward, with the suburbs of two thousand
cities; but the land thereto belonging they gave as a free gift to Caleb,
according to the injunctions of Moses. This Caleb was one of the spies
which Moses sent into the land of Canaan. They also gave land for habitation
to the posterity of Jethro, the Midianite, who was the father-in-law to
Moses; for they had left their own country, and followed them, and accompanied
them in the wilderness.
Flavius Josephus. The Works of Flavius Josephus. Translated by. William Whiston, A.M. Auburn and Buffalo. John E. Beardsley. 1895.
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