6 People of Israel, when we were in our camp at Mount Sinai, the Lord our God told us:You have stayed here long enough.
7 Leave this place and go into the land that belongs to the Amorites and their neighbors the Canaanites. This land includes the Jordan River valley, the hill country, the western foothills, the Southern Desert, the Mediterranean seacoast, the Lebanon Mountains, and all the territory as far as the Euphrates River.
8 I give you this land, just as I promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Now you must go and take the land.
9 Right after the Lord commanded us to leave Mount Sinai, I told you:Israel, being your leader is too big a job for one person.
10 The Lord our God has blessed us, and so now there are as many of us as there are stars in the sky.
11 God has even promised to bless us a thousand times more, and I pray that he will.
12 But I cannot take care of all your problems and settle all your arguments alone.