^38 (A)But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive, of the men who went to spy out the land.

Caleb Inherits Hebron

⁶ Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(A)Kenizzite said to him: “You know ^(B)the word which the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning ^(C)you and me in Kadesh Barnea. ⁷ I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^(D)sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back word to him as it was in my heart. ⁸ Nevertheless ^(E)my brethren who went up with me made the ^[a]heart of the people melt, but I wholly ^(F)followed the Lord my God. ⁹ So Moses swore on that day, saying, ^(G)‘Surely the land ^(H)where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰ And now, behold, the Lord has kept me ^(I)alive, ^(J)as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel ^[b]wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.

⁶⁵ For the Lord had said of them, “They ^(A)shall surely die in the wilderness.” So there was not left a man of them, ^(B)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.