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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them--to the Israelites. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates--all the Hittite country--to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10So Joshua ordered the officers of the people: |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Go through the camp and tell the people, 'Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.'" |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13"Remember the command that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you after he said, 'The LORD your God will give you rest by giving you this land.' |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, ready for battle, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites. You are to help them |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15until the LORD gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Then they answered Joshua, "Whatever you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Just as we fully obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you as he was with Moses. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Whoever rebels against your word and does not obey it, whatever you may command them, will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous!" |
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