²And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old^a today;^b I am not able to go out and to come in any longer, and Yahweh said to me, ‘You may not cross this Jordan.’ ³Yahweh your God is about to cross before you;^c he will destroy these nations before you,^d and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will be crossing before you,^e just as Yahweh promised.^f ⁴And Yahweh will do to them just as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed with them. ⁵And Yahweh will deliver them to you before you,^g and you shall do to them according to every commandment that I have commanded you. ⁶Be strong and be courageous; you should not be afraid, and you should not be in dread from their presence,^h for Yahweh your God is the one going with you; he will not leave you alone and he will not forsake you.”

⁷Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him in the presence of all Israel,ⁱ “Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors^j to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance. ⁸Yahweh is the one going before you;^k he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged.”

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Deuteronomy 31:6: Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you…

Footnotes

aLiterally “a son of a hundred and twenty years”
bLiterally “the day”
cLiterally “to the face of you”
dLiterally “to the face of you”
eLiterally “to the face of you”
fLiterally “spoke”
gLiterally “will give them Yahweh to the face of you”
hLiterally “not you should dread from their face”
iLiterally “before the eyes of all Israel”
jOr “their fathers”
kLiterally “to the face of you”