but between the place where Joshua stood and the first step in that land flowed the Jordan River. The Jordan begins just below Mount Hermon and flows south into the Sea of Galilee and then the Dead Sea. Joshua and his people were located just north of the Dead Sea and east of Jericho. Like Moses, Joshua viewed a body of water between the nation and the place God wanted them to go. 1:3–5. The Hebrew text here is strikingly like Deuteronomy 11:24–25a, emphasizing again that Joshua fulfilled the beginnings