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 nun 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 Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jaffuna, the

Kenazite, said to him, You know what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God in Canish Barnea

concerning you and me. I was forty years old, when Moses, the servant of God in Canish Barnea concerning you and me. I was forty years old when Moses,

the servant of the Lord, sent me from Cadesh 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

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