Holy Scripture

Joshua 14:11

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“A brother asked John, 'What shall I do? A brother keeps coming and taking me away to help with the work which he is doing: but I am poor and ill, and too weak to do it. How can I obey God's commandment?' He answered him, 'Caleb the son of Jephunneh said to Joshua the son of Nun, "I was forty years old when Moses the s…”
Desert Fathers, 5th c. — The Desert Fathers, Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

Source: Septuagint

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11I am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to go out and to come in for war.

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9And Moses swore on that day, saying, The land on which thou art gone up, it shall be thy inheritance and thy children’s forever, because thou hast applied thyself to follow the Lord our God.

10And now the Lord has kept me alive as he said: this is the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke that word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

— Joshua 14:11 —

12And now I ask of thee this mountain, as the Lord said in that day; for thou heardest this word on that day; and now the Anakim are there, cities great and strong: if then the Lord should be with me, I will utterly destroy them, as the Lord said to me.

13And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh the son of Kenaz for an inheritance.

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