Book Five

Let the Redeemed of the Lord Say So

The Inheritance West of the Jordan

14 These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan, which ^(A)Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit. ² Their inheritance was ^(B)by lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half tribes. ^3 (C)For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan, ^(D)but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. ⁴ For ^(E)the people of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim. And no portion was given to the Levites in the land, but only cities to dwell in, with their pasturelands for their livestock and their substance. ⁵ The people of Israel did ^(F)as the Lord commanded Moses; they allotted the land.

Caleb's Request and Inheritance

⁶ Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^(G)Kenizzite said to him, “You know ^(H)what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. ⁷ I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord ^(I)sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. ⁸ But ^(J)my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. ⁹ And Moses swore on that day, saying, ^(K)‘Surely the land ^(L)on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.’ ¹⁰ And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, ^(M)just as he said, these ^(N)forty-five years since the time that the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day ^(O)eighty-five years old. ^11 (P)I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and ^(Q)for going and coming. ¹² So now give me this hill country of which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the ^(R)Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the Lord will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the Lord said.”

¹³ Then Joshua ^(S)blessed him, and he gave ^(T)Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. ¹⁴ Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, ^(U)because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel. ^15 (V)Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kiriath-arba.^[a] (Arba^[b] was the greatest man among the Anakim.) ^(W)And the land had rest from war.

Jesus Is Buried

^50 (A)Now there was a man named Joseph, from the Jewish town of Arimathea. He was a member of the council, a good and righteous man, ⁵¹ who had not consented to their decision and action; and he ^(B)was looking for the kingdom of God. ⁵² This man went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus. ⁵³ Then he took it down and wrapped it in a linen shroud and ^(C)laid him in a tomb cut in stone, ^(D)where no one had ever yet been laid. ⁵⁴ It was the day of ^(E)Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.^{[a] 55 (F)}The women ^(G)who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid. ⁵⁶ Then they returned and ^(H)prepared spices and ointments.

On the Sabbath they rested ^(I)according to the commandment.

The Resurrection

24 ^(J)But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, ^(K)taking the spices they had prepared. ² And they found ^(L)the stone rolled away from the tomb, ³ but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴ While they were perplexed about this, behold, ^(M)two ^(N)men stood by them in dazzling apparel. ⁵ And as they were ^(O)frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? ⁶ He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, ^(P)while he was still in Galilee, ^7 (Q)that the Son of Man ^(R)must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and ^(S)be crucified and on ^(T)the third day rise.” ⁸ And ^(U)they remembered his words, ⁹ and returning from the tomb they ^(V)told all these things to the eleven and to all the rest. ¹⁰ Now it was ^(W)Mary Magdalene and ^(X)Joanna and Mary the mother of James and the other women with them who told these things to the apostles, ¹¹ but these words seemed to them an idle tale, and ^(Y)they did not believe them. ¹² But ^(Z)Peter rose and ran to the tomb; stooping and looking in, he saw ^(AA)the linen cloths by themselves; and he went home marveling at what had happened.