5. The Lord had told Moses how to give the land to the tribes of Israel, and the Israelites divided the land.
6. One day some men from the tribe of Judah went to Joshua at Gilgal. Among them was Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite. He said to Joshua, “You remember what the Lord said at Kadesh Barnea when he was speaking to the prophet Moses about you and me.
7. Moses, the Lord’s servant, sent me to look at the land where we were going. I was forty years old then. When I came back, I told Moses what I thought about the land.
8. The other men who went with me frightened the people, but I fully believed the Lord would allow us to take the land.