1. After Moses, the servant of the Lord, had died, the Lord said to Moses’ aide Joshua, son of Nun:
2. Moses my servant is dead. So now, you and the whole people with you, prepare to cross the Jordan to the land that I will give the Israelites.
3. Every place where you set foot I have given you, as I promised Moses.
4. All the land of the Hittites, from the wilderness and the Lebanon east to the great river Euphrates and west to the Great Sea, will be your territory.
5. No one can withstand you as long as you live. As I was with Moses, I will be with you: I will not leave you nor forsake you.
6. Be strong and steadfast, so that you may give this people possession of the land I swore to their ancestors that I would give them.