Numbers 26:65
Good News Translation
The LORD had said that all of them would die in the wilderness, and except for Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun they all did.

New Revised Standard Version
For the LORD had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Contemporary English Version
except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. The LORD had said that everyone else would die there in the desert.

New American Bible
For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness, and not one of them was left except Caleb, son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, son of Nun.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

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For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Numbers 26:1 After the blood of the guilty was shed, the Lord said to Moses and to Eleazar the son of Aaron, the priest:

The daughters of Zelophehad sue for an inheritance

Numbers 26:6 And Hesron, of whom is the family of the Hesronites: and Charmi, of whom is the family of the Charmites.

The law of inheritances
12 Moses, being told of his death, sues for a successor
18 Joshua is appointed to succeed him

the daughters.

2. If there be no son, the daughters succeed.

3.If there be no daughter, the brothers of the deceased inherit.

4. If there be no brethren, or paternal uncles, the estate goes to the grand uncles, or brothers of his father.

5. If there be no grand uncles, then the nearest of kin succeeds to the inheritance. Beyond this fifth degree the law does not extend, because there must always have been some among the Israelites who could be called kinsmen. Zelophehad.

Numbers 26:33 And Hepher was the father of Salphaad, who had no sons, but only daughters, whose names are these: Maala, and Noa, and Hegla, and Melcha, and Thersa.

Numbers 36:1-12 And the princes of the families of Galaad, the son of Machir, the son of Manasses, of the stock of the children of Joseph, came and spoke to Moses before the princes of Israel, and said: . . .

Joshua 17:3-6 But Salphaad the son of Hepher the son of Galaad the son of Machir the son of Manasses had no sons, but only daughters: whose names are these, Maala and Noa and Hegla and Melcha and Thersa. . . .

1 Chronicles 7:15 And Machir took wives for his sons Happhim, and Saphan: and he had a sister named Maacha: the name of the second was Salphaad, and Salphaad had daughters.

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Context
Only Caleb and Joshua Remain
64Among whom there was not one of them that were numbered before by Moses and Aaron in the desert of Sinai. 65For the Lord had foretold that they should die in the wilderness. And none remained of them, but Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 10:5
But with most of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the desert.

Numbers 14:23
Shall not see the land for which I swore to their fathers, neither shall any one of them that hath detracted me behold it.

Numbers 14:24
My servant Caleb, who being full of another spirit hath followed me, I will bring into this land which he hath gone round: and his seed shall possess it.

Numbers 14:26
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying:

Numbers 14:32
Your carcasses shall lie in the wilderness.

Numbers 27:3
Our father died in the desert, and was not in the sedition, that was raised against the Lord under Core, but he died in his own sin: and he had no male children. Why is his name taken away out of his family, because he had no son? Give us a possession among the kinsmen of our father.

Numbers 34:19
Whose names are these: Of the tribe of Juda, Caleb the son of Jephone.

Deuteronomy 1:36
Except Caleb the son of Jephone: for he shall see it, and to him I will give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath followed the Lord.

Deuteronomy 2:14
And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:

Joshua 14:6
Then the children of Juda came to Joshua in Galgal, and Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite spoke to him: Thou knowest what the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Cadesbarne.

Psalm 90:3
Turn not man away to be brought low: and thou hast said: Be converted, O ye sons of men.

Numbers 26:64
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