A reading from the book of Joshua.

These are the inheritances that the people of Israel received in the land of Canaan,

which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, the son of none, and the heads of the father's houses

of the tribes of the people of Israel gave them to inherit.

Their inheritance was by lot, just as the Lord had commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine and one-half

tribes. For Moses had given an inheritance to the two and one-half tribes beyond the Jordan,

but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them, for 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 pasture lands for their livestock and their substance.

The people of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

They allotted the land.

Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgau, and Caleb, the son of Jafuna, the Kinnazite, said to him,

You know what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, and Kadesh Barnea concerning you and me.

I was 40 years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the

land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. But my brothers, who went up with me,

made the heart of the people melt.

Yet I wholly followed the Lord my God. And Moses swore on that day, saying, surely the land 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. And now behold, the Lord has kept me alive, just as he said, these 45 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 85 years old. 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

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