³⁶ except Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and ^(A)to him and to his sons I will give the land on which he has set foot, because he has followed Yahweh fully.’

⁸ Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people ^[a]melt with fear; but ^(A)I followed Yahweh my God fully. ⁹ So Moses swore on that day, saying, ‘Surely ^(B)the land on which your foot has trodden will be an inheritance to you and to your children forever because you have followed Yahweh my God fully.’ ¹⁰ So now behold, Yahweh has let me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; so now behold, I am eighty-five years old today. ^11 (C)I am still as strong today as I was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was then, so my strength is now, for war and for ^(D)going out and coming in. ¹² So now, give me this hill country about which Yahweh spoke on that day, for you heard on that day that ^(E)Anakim were there, with great fortified cities; perhaps Yahweh will be with me, and I will dispossess them as Yahweh has spoken.”

¹³ So Joshua ^(F)blessed him and ^(G)gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. ¹⁴ Therefore, Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite until this day because he fully followed Yahweh, the God of Israel. ¹⁵ Now the name of Hebron was formerly ^[b]Kiriath-arba; for Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim. ^(H)Then the land was quiet from war.