◄ Deuteronomy 1:38 ►
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Good News Translation
But strengthen the determination of your helper, Joshua son of Nun. He will lead Israel to occupy the land.'

New Revised Standard Version
Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, shall enter there; encourage him, for he is the one who will secure Israel’s possession of it.

Contemporary English Version
Instead, I will let Joshua your assistant lead Israel to conquer the land. So encourage him."

New American Bible
but Joshua, son of Nun, your attendant, shall enter. Encourage him, for he is the one who is to give Israel its possession.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee: exhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee: exhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.

Joshua

Numbers 13:8,16 Of the tribe of Ephraim, Osee the son of Nun. . . .

Numbers 14:30,38 Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun. . . .

Numbers 26:65 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.

which standeth

Exodus 17:9-14 And Moses said to Josue: Choose out men; and go out and fight against Amalec: tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill, having the rod of God in my hand. . . .

Exodus 24:13 Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God,

Exodus 33:11 And the Lord spoke to Moses face to face, as a man is wont to speak to his friend. And when he returned into the camp, his servant Josue, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not from the tabernacle.

1 Samuel 16:22 And Saul sent to Isai, saying: Let David stand before me: for he hath found favour in my sight.

Proverbs 22:29 Hast thou seen a man swift in his work? he shall stand before kings, and shall not be before those that are obscure.

encourage him

Deuteronomy 3:28 Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go before this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou shalt see.

Deuteronomy 31:7,8,14,23 And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land which the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot. . . .

Numbers 27:18-23 And the Lord said to him: take Josue the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and put thy hand upon him. . . .

Joshua 1:1,6-9 Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Joshua, the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and said to him: . . .

Context
Israel's Penalty
…37Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at, since the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said: Neither shalt thou go in thither. 38But Josue the son of Nun, thy minister, he shall go in for thee: exhort and encourage him, and he shall divide the land by lot to Israel.39Your children, of whom you said that they should be led away captives, and your sons who know not this day the difference of good and evil, they shall go in: and to them I will give the land, and they shall possess it.…
Cross References
Numbers 14:30
Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.

Numbers 34:17
These are the names of the men, that shall divide the land unto you: Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun,

Deuteronomy 3:28
Command Josue, and encourage and strengthen him: for he shall go before this people, and shall divide unto them the land which thou shalt see.

Deuteronomy 31:7
And Moses called Josue, and said to him before all Israel: Take courage, and be valiant: for thou shalt bring this people into the land which the Lord swore he would give to their fathers, and thou shalt divide it by lot.

Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord spoke to Moses, and delivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according to their divisions and tribes. And the land rested from wars.

Jeremiah 40:10
Behold I dwell in Masphath, that I may answer the commandment of the Chaldeans that are sent to us: but as for you, gather ye the vintage, and the harvest, and the oil, and lay it up in your vessels, and abide in your cities which you hold.

Deuteronomy 1:37
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