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Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal ;
and Caleb the son of Jephun '
neh the Ken '
izzite said to him , "
You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Ka '
desh-bar '
nea concerning you and me .
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I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Ka '
desh-bar '
nea to spy out the land ;
and I brought him word again as it was in my heart .
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But my brethren who went up with me made the heart of the people melt ;
yet I wholly followed the LORD my God .
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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 for ever ,
because you have wholly followed the LORD my God .'
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And now ,
behold ,
the LORD has kept me alive ,
as he said ,
these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses ,
while Israel walked in the wilderness ;
and now ,
lo ,
I am this day eighty-five years old .
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I am still as strong to this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me ;
my strength now is as my strength was then ,
for war ,
and for going and coming .
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So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day ;
for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there ,
with great fortified cities :
it may be that the LORD will be with me ,
and I shall drive them out as the LORD said ."
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Then Joshua blessed him ;
and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephun '
neh for an inheritance .
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So Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephun '
neh the Ken '
izzite to this day ,
because he wholly followed the LORD ,
the God of Israel .
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Now the name of Hebron formerly was Kir '
iath-ar '
ba ;
this Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim .
And the land had rest from war .