Holy Scripture

Joshua 14:7

A church father on this verse
“However, he [the Lord] said they should not come to that land which they had refused, as a penalty for their unbelief; but their children and wives, who had not murmured, and who, owing to their sex and age, were guiltless, should receive the promised inheritance of that land. So the bodies of those of twenty years ol…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — On the Duties of the Clergy 3.8.55-56

Source: Septuagint

Original

7For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.

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5As the Lord commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel; and they divided the land.

6And the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, Thou knowest the word that the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.

— Joshua 14:7 —

8My brethren that went up with me turned away the heart of the people, but I applied myself to follow the Lord my God.

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.

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