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

¹⁷ Caleb's nephew Othniel^[a] captured Kiriath-Sepher, and Caleb let him marry Achsah. ¹⁸ Right after the wedding, Achsah started telling Othniel that he^[b] ought to ask her father for a field. She went to see her father, and while she was getting down from^[c] her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What's bothering you?”