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But the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and in your heart, so that you can do it.

So Moses continued to speak these words to all Israel.

The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken.

Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, ‘Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?'

So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the people of Israel.

They have made me jealous with what is no god; they have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are no people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

Yes, he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand; so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you,

Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.

So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.

So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord ,

And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

No man shall 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 leave you or forsake you.

This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on 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.

Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the Lord your God be with you, as he was with Moses!

So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.

And she said, "According to your words, so be it." Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.

And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.

The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,