1After the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant^a of Moses, saying, ²“My servant Moses is dead. Get up and cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites.^b ³Every place that the soles of your feet will tread, I have given it to you, as I promised^c to Moses. ⁴From the wilderness and the Lebanon,^d up to the great river, the river Euphrates, all of the land of the Hittites, and up to the great sea in the west,^e will be your territory. ⁵No one will stand before you^f all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will not fail you, and I will not forsake you. ⁶Be strong and courageous, for you will give the people this land as an inheritance that I swore to their ancestors^g to give them. ⁷Only be strong and very courageous to observe diligently the whole law^h that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn aside from it, to the right or left, so that you may succeed wherever you go.ⁱ ⁸The scroll of this law will not depart from your mouth; you will meditate on it day and night so that you may observe diligently all that is written^j in it. For then you will succeed in your ways and prosper. ⁹Did I not command you? Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”^k

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Joshua 1:8: 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.

Footnotes

aOr “servant”
bLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
cOr “spoke”
dLiterally “this Lebanon”; “Lebanon” in Hebrew means “white mountain”
eLiterally “the great sea of the setting sun”
fOr “in your presence”
gOr “fathers”
hLiterally “to keep and to act according to the whole law”
iLiterally “in all that you go”
jLiterally “to keep and to act according to all that is written”
kLiterally “in all that you go”