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.