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Then Avram traveled on, continuing toward the Negev.

Avram went up from Egypt — he, his wife and everything he had, and Lot with him — into the Negev.

As he went on his travels from the Negev, he came to Beit-El, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beit-El and ‘Ai,

Avraham traveled from there toward the Negev and lived between Kadesh and Shur. While living as an alien in G'rar,

Meanwhile, Yitz'chak, one evening after coming along the road from Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i — he was living in the Negev —

Moshe sent them to reconnoiter the land of Kena‘an, instructing them, "Go on up to the Negev and into the hills,

They went up into the Negev and arrived at Hevron; Achiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the ‘Anakim, lived there. (Hevron was built seven years before Tzo‘an in Egypt.)

‘Amalek lives in the area of the Negev; the Hitti, the Y'vusi and the Emori live in the hills; and the Kena‘ani live by the sea and alongside the Yarden."

Then the king of ‘Arad, a Kena‘ani who lived in the Negev, heard that Isra'el was approaching by way of Atarim, so he attacked Isra'el and took some of them captive.

The Kena‘ani king of ‘Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Kena‘an, had heard that the people of Isra'el were coming;

Turn, get moving and go to the hill-country of the Emori and all the places near there in the ‘Aravah, the hill-country, the Sh'felah, the Negev and by the seashore — the land of the Kena‘ani, and the L'vanon, as far as the great river, the Euphrates River.

the Negev, and the ‘Aravah, including the valley where Yericho, the City of Date-Palms, as far away as Tzo‘ar.

So Y'hoshua attacked all the land — the hills, the Negev, the Sh'felah and the mountain slopes — and all their kings; he left none but completely destroyed everything that breathed, as Adonai the God of Isra'el had ordered.

So Y'hoshua captured all that land, the hills, the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the Sh'felah, the ‘Aravah and the Isra'el hills and Sh'felah,

Following are the kings of the land whom Y'hoshua, with the people of Isra'el, defeated in the area west of the Yarden, between Ba‘al-Gad in the L'vanon Valley and the bare mountain that goes up to Se‘ir. Y'hoshua gave this land, inhabited by the Hitti, Emori, Kena‘ani, P'rizi, Hivi and Y'vusi, to the tribes of Isra'el to possess, according to their divisions, in the hills, the Sh'felah, the ‘Aravah, the mountain slopes, the desert and the Negev:

The territory chosen by lot for the tribe of the descendants of Y'hudah according to their families extended to the border of Edom in the Tzin Desert, toward the Negev in the far south.

She said to him: "Give me a blessing: since you gave me land in the Negev, also give me sources of water." So Kalev gave her the Upper Springs and the Lower Springs.

and all the villages surrounding these cities, as far as Ba‘alat-Be'er, Ramah of the Negev. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Shim‘on according to their families.

Afterwards, the people of Y'hudah went down to fight against the Kena‘ani who lived in the hill-country, in the Negev, and in the Sh'felah.

She said to him: "Give me a blessing: since you gave me land in the Negev, also give me sources of water." So Kalev gave her the Upper Springs and the Lower Springs.