And Joseph spoke to his brothers, saying, I die, and God will surely visit you, and will bring you out of this land to the land concerning which God swore to our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

but be strong, and show yourself a man;

that the Lord may confirm His word which He spoke, saying, If your children shall take heed to their way to walk before Me in truth with all their heart, [I promise you], saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.

Trust not in princes, nor in the children of men, in whom there is no safety.

His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; in that day all his thoughts shall perish.

Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live forever?

But do you receive My words and My ordinances, all that I command by My Spirit to My servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers? And they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has He done to us.

"Lord, now You are releasing Your servant in peace, according to Your word;

"For David indeed in his own generation, having served by the purpose of God, died, and was buried with his fathers, and saw corruption;

For I am already being poured out [as a drink offering], and the time of my departure has arrived.

without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but having been made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.

And here on one hand mortal men receive tithes, but there on the other it is witnessed that he lives.

Also there were many priests, because they were prevented by death from continuing.

Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those coming to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

knowing that the putting off of my tent is soon, just as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.

And the nation whom they shall serve I will judge; and after this, they shall come forth with much property.

And behold, I am with you, to preserve you continually wherever you shall go; and I will bring you back to this land; for I will not desert you, until I have done all that I have said to you.

And I will go down with you into Egypt, and I will bring you up at the end; and Joseph shall put his hands on your eyes.

These [are] the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on this side of the Jordan in the desert towards the west near the Red Sea, between Paran, Tophel, Laban, and Aulon, and the gold works.

And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spoke to all the children of Israel, according to all things which the Lord commanded him for them;

Beyond the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,

Turn and depart, and enter into the mountain of the Amorites, and [go] to all that dwell near about Arabah, to the mountain and the plain and to the south, and the land of the Canaanites near the sea, and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.

And I spoke to you at that time, saying, I shall not be able by myself to bear you.

[May] the Lord God of your fathers add to you a thousand times more numerous than you [already] are, and bless you, as He has spoken to you.

Take to yourselves wise and understanding and prudent men for your tribes, and I will set your leaders over you.

So I took of you wise and understanding and prudent men, and I set them to rule over you as rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, and rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens, and officers to your judges.

You shall not have respect to persons in judgment, you shall judge small and great equally; you shall not shrink from before the person of a man, for the judgment is God's; and whatsoever matter shall be too hard for you, you shall bring it to me, and I will hear it.

And we departed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite, as the Lord our God charged us, and we came as far as Kadesh Barnea.

Behold, the Lord your God has delivered to us the land before you; go up and inherit it as the Lord God of your fathers said to you; fear not, neither be afraid.

And the saying pleased me: and I took of you twelve men; one man from each tribe.

And they took in their hands of the fruit of the land, and brought it to you, and said, The land is good which the Lord our God gives us.

And you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us.

And I said to you, Fear not, neither be afraid of them;

and in this wilderness which you saw, by the way of the mountain of the Amorite; how the Lord your God will bear you like a son, as if any man should carry his son, through all the way which you have gone, until you came to this place.

who goes before you in the way to choose you a place, guiding you in the fire by night, showing you the way by which you should go, and a cloud by day.

Not one of these men shall see this good land, which I swore to their fathers,

And the Lord was angry with me for your sake, saying, Neither shall you by any means enter therein.

And every young child who this day knows not good or evil, they shall enter therein, and to them I will give it, and they shall inherit it.

And you answered and said, We have sinned before the Lord our God; we will go up and fight according to all that the Lord our God has commanded us. And everyone, having taken up their weapons of war, and being gathered together, went up to the mountain.

And I spoke to you, and you did not listen to me; and you transgressed the commandment of the Lord; and you forced your way and went up into the mountain.

And you sat down and wept before the Lord our God, and the Lord would not listen to your voice, neither did He take heed to you.

And the Lord that goes with you shall not forsake you nor abandon you; fear not, neither be afraid.

Not a man shall stand against you all the days of your life; and as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you, and I will not fail you, or neglect you.

Behold, I have commanded you; be strong and courageous, be not cowardly nor fearful, for the Lord your God is with you in all places in which you go.

And the Lord said to Joshua, This day do I begin to exalt you before all the children of Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so will I also be with you.

But I hasten to go the way [of death], as all that are upon the earth also [do.] And you know in your heart and in your soul, that not one word has fallen [to the ground] of all the words which the Lord our God has spoken respecting all that concerns us; there has not one of them failed.

And Joshua gathered all the tribe of Israel to Shiloh, and called their elders, and their officers, and their judges, and set them before God.

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and I guided him through all the land, and I multiplied his seed;

And I smote Egypt with the wonders that I wrought among them.

And we cried aloud to the Lord, and He put a cloud and darkness between us an the Egyptians, and He brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt; and you were in the wilderness many days.

And Balak, king of Moab, son of Siphor, rose up, and made war against Israel, and sent and called Balaam to curse us.

And you crossed over the Jordan, and came to Jericho; and the inhabitants of Jericho fought against us, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, the Jebusite, the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Lord delivered them into our hands.

And He gave you a land on which you did not labor, and cities which you did not build, and you were settled in them; and you eat [of] vineyards and olive yards which you did not plant.

But if it seem not good to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods of your fathers that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, among whom you dwell upon their land. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord, for He is holy.

The Lord our God, He is God; He brought up us and our fathers from Egypt, and kept us in all the way in which we walked, and among all the nations through whom we passed.

And Joshua said to the people, Indeed you will not be able to serve the Lord, for God is holy; and He being jealous will not forgive your sins and your transgressions.

And the people said to Joshua, No, but we will serve the Lord!

And now take away the strange gods that are among you, and set your heart right toward the Lord God of Israel.

So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and gave them a law and an ordinance in Shiloh before the tabernacle of the God of Israel.

And Joshua said to the people, Behold, this stone shall be among you for a witness, for it has heard all the words that have been spoken to it by the Lord; for He has spoken to you this day; and this [stone] shall be among you for a witness in the last days, whenever you shall deal falsely with the Lord my God.

And it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, [at the age] of a hundred and ten years.

And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that lived as long as Joshua, and all that knew all the works of the Lord which He had done for Israel.

And it came to pass afterwards that Eleazar the high priest the son of Aaron died, and was buried in Gibeah of Phinehas his son, which he gave him in Mount Ephraim. In that day the children of Israel took the ark of God, and carried it about among them. And Phinehas exercised the priest's office in the place of Eleazar his father till he died, and he was buried in his own place Gibeah. But the children of Israel departed everyone to their place, and to their own city: and the children of Israel worshipped Astarte, and Astaroth, and the gods of the nations round about them; and the Lord delivered them into the hands of Eglom king of Moab, and he ruled over them eighteen years.

The Lord lives; and blessed [be] my God; and let the God of my salvation be exalted.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot the son of his brother, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and every soul which they had acquired in Haran, and they departed to go into the land of Canaan.

And sojourn in this land; and I will be with you, and bless you, for I will give to you and to your seed all this land; and I will establish My oath which I swore to your father Abraham.

[ 36:44] And Jacob dwelt in the land where his father sojourned, in the land of Canaan.