⁸ But ^(A)my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God.

²⁴ But my servant ^(A)Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has ^(B)followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

^36 (A)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’

^31 (A)Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.”

¹⁴ Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, ^(A)because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

⁴ It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for ^(A)they are virgins. It is these ^(B)who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as ^(C)firstfruits for God and the Lamb,