3. Moses had already given a grant of land to the two and a half tribes on the east side of the Jordan River, but he had given the Levites no such allotment.
4. The descendants of Joseph had become two separate tribes—Manasseh and Ephraim. And the Levites were given no land at all, only towns to live in with surrounding pasturelands for their livestock and all their possessions.
5. So the land was distributed in strict accordance with the lord’s commands to Moses.
6. A delegation from the tribe of Judah, led by Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, came to Joshua at Gilgal. Caleb said to Joshua, “Remember what the lord said to Moses, the man of God, about you and me when we were at Kadesh-barnea.
7. I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land of Canaan. I returned and gave an honest report,
8. but my brothers who went with me frightened the people from entering the Promised Land. For my part, I wholeheartedly followed the lord my God.
9. So that day Moses solemnly promised me, ‘The land of Canaan on which you were just walking will be your grant of land and that of your descendants forever, because you wholeheartedly followed the lord my God.’