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So Moses came with Joshua Numbers 13:8, 16)">[fn] the son of Nun and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

Your sandals shall be iron and bronze; As your days, so shall your strength be.

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

And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. So the days of weeping and mourning for Moses ended.

Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you nor forsake you.

So they answered Joshua, saying, "All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

Just as we heeded Moses in all things, so we will heed you. Only the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.

Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove [fn] to spy secretly, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.

So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country."

Then the woman took the two men and hid them. So she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

So the men answered her, "Our lives for yours, if none of you tell this business of ours. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."

So the men said to her: "We will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made us swear,

So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless. And whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid on him.

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

So the two men returned, descended from the mountain, and crossed over; and they came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them.

So it was, after three days, that the officers went through the camp;

Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.

And the LORD said to Joshua, "This day 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 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."