The Lord commissions Joshua
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📚Now after the death of Moses✭ the servant of the LORD it came about that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying, 2 📚“Moses my servant✭ is dead. Now, therefore, arise, go over this Jordan✭, you, and all this people, to the land which I give✭ to them, to the children of Israel. 3 📚✭Every place that the sole of your foot treads on, I have given to you, just as I said to Moses. 4 📚Your territory will be from the wilderness✭ and this Lebanon to the great river, the River Euphrates✭, all the land of the Hittites✭, to the great sea✭ toward the sunset. 5 📚No man will be able to stand✭ before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you✭. I will not fail you, or forsake you. 6 📚“Be strong and courageous✭; for you will cause this people to possess✭ the land, which I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 📚✭Only be strong and very courageous, so that you may be careful to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go. 8 📚This book of the law must not depart from your mouth, but you must meditate in it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 📚✭Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed; for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go”.
Preparations to cross the Jordan River
10 ✭Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 11 📚“Pass through the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare food for yourselves; for within three days you will cross over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess”.
12 📚And Joshua spoke to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to half the tribe of Manasseh, saying, 13 📚“Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, ‘The LORD your God has given you rest, and has given you this land. 14 📚Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, will remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but you, all the valiant warriors, must go armed before your brethren, and help them 15 📚until the LORD has given your brethren rest, just as he has given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God gives them.’ Then you shall return to enjoy the land of your possession, which Moses the LORD’s servant gave you on this side of Jordan toward the sunrise”.
16 📚And they answered Joshua, saying, “We will do all that you command us, and will go wherever you send us. 17 📚Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so we will listen to you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses. 18 📚✭Whoever rebels against your command, and will not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous”.