1. After the death of Moses the Lord’s servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, who had served Moses:
2. “Moses My servant is dead. Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan to the land I am giving the Israelites.
3. I have given you every place where the sole of your foot treads, just as I promised Moses.
4. Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great Euphrates River — all the land of the Hittites — and west to the Mediterranean Sea.
5. No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. I will be with you, just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or forsake you.
6. “Be strong and courageous, for you will distribute the land I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance.
7. Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go.