the land. Leaders change: Joshua replaced Moses. But God does not change. God is the same, and so are the purposes that he has established for his redeemed people. The Written Word The continuity between the patriarchal period and the period of Jewish settlement, based on the character and will of God, is focused on the written Word of God, which in this period was the Pentateuch, or first five books of our Bible. This is the second major point of Joshua. In Joshua 1:1–9, there are two paragraphs.
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