Then Israel said to Joseph,“ Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.

以色列又对约瑟说：“我要死了，但神必与你们同在，领你们回到你们列祖之地。

以色列又对约瑟说：“看哪，我快要死了，但上帝必与你们同在，领你们回到你们祖先之地。

以色列又对约瑟说：“看哪，我快要死了，但神必与你们同在，领你们回到你们祖先之地。

以色列对约瑟说：“我快死了，但上帝必与你们同在，带你们回到你们祖先的土地。

以色列又对约瑟说：“看哪，我快要死了，但是神必与你们同在，必领你们回到你们祖先的土地去。

以色列对约瑟说：“看哪，我就要死了！但神必与你们同在，把你们带回到你们祖先之地。

以色列又對約瑟說：「我要死了，但神必與你們同在，領你們回到你們列祖之地。

以色列又對約瑟說：「看哪，我快要死了，但上帝必與你們同在，領你們回到你們祖先之地。

以色列又對約瑟說：「看哪，我快要死了，但神必與你們同在，領你們回到你們祖先之地。

以色列對約瑟說：「我快死了，但上帝必與你們同在，帶你們回到你們祖先的土地。

以色列又對約瑟說：“看哪，我快要死了，但是神必與你們同在，必領你們回到你們祖先的土地去。

以色列對約瑟說：『看吧，我快要死了，但上帝必與你們同在；必領你們回到你們列祖之地。

以色列對約瑟說：「看哪，我就要死了！但神必與你們同在，把你們帶回到你們祖先之地。

以色列語約瑟曰、我將死矣、惟上帝必偕爾、俾返先人之處、

以色列語約瑟曰、我死期將至、上帝必祐爾、使爾返於爾祖所旅之處。

以色列又語約瑟曰、我將死矣、天主必祐爾、使爾返於爾列祖之地、

Then Israel said to Joseph,“ I am about to die, but God will be with you and take you back to the land of your fathers.

Then Israel said to Joseph,“ I’m about to die. But God will be with all of you. He’ll take you back to the land of your fathers.

Then Jacob said to Joseph,“ Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will take you back to Canaan, the land of your ancestors.

Israel said to Joseph,“ Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Then Israel said to Joseph,“ Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you, and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Then Israel said to Joseph,“ Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you and bring you back to the land of your fathers.

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God will be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

Then Israel said to Joseph,“ Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

And Israel said unto Joseph, Behold, I die: but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers.

Then Israel said to Joseph,“ I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you back to the land of your fathers.

Israel said to Joseph,“ Behold, I am dying, but God will be with you, and bring you again to the land of your fathers.

And Joseph said to his brothers,“ I am about to die, but God will visit you and bring you up out of this land to the land that he swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will also bring you up again, and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.”

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go, and will bring you back to this land. For I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”

The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office,but he holds his priesthood permanently, because he continues forever.Consequently, he is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, since he always lives to make intercession for them.

Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And they presented themselves before God.And Joshua said to all the people,“ Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel,‘ Long ago, your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and they served other gods.Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac.And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and afterward I brought you out.“‘ Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.And when they cried to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time.Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,but I would not listen to Balaam. Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand.And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.’“ Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”Then the people answered,“ Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods,for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed.And the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”But Joshua said to the people,“ You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”And the people said to Joshua,“ No, but we will serve the Lord.”Then Joshua said to the people,“ You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said,“ We are witnesses.”He said,“ Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.”And the people said to Joshua,“ The Lord our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.”So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.And Joshua said to all the people,“ Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.And they buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the Lord did for Israel.As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

The Lord said to Joshua,“ Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

It is the Lord who goes before you. He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed.”

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? So they repented and said,‘ As the Lord of hosts purposed to deal with us for our ways and deeds, so has he dealt with us.’”

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation.When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

He is without father or mother or genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the Son of God he continues a priest forever.

These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab.It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them,after he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei.Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying,“ The Lord our God said to us in Horeb,‘ You have stayed long enough at this mountain.Turn and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’“ At that time I said to you,‘ I am not able to bear you by myself.The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven.May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, as he has promised you!How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife?Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’And you answered me,‘ The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes.And I charged your judges at that time,‘ Hear the cases between your brothers, and judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him.You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God’s. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.“ Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.And I said to you,‘ You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us.See, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you. Do not fear or be dismayed.’Then all of you came near me and said,‘ Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’The thing seemed good to me, and I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe.And they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out.And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said,‘ It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.’“ Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God.And you murmured in your tents and said,‘ Because the Lord hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying,“ The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.”’Then I said to you,‘ Do not be in dread or afraid of them.The Lord your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’Yet in spite of this word you did not believe the Lord your God,who went before you in the way to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.“ And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore,‘ Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers,except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’Even with me the Lord was angry on your account and said,‘ You also shall not go in there.Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.But as for you, turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’“ Then you answered me,‘ We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country.And the Lord said to me,‘ Say to them, Do not go up or fight, for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the Lord and presumptuously went up into the hill country.Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as Hormah.And you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord did not listen to your voice or give ear to you.So you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.

“ I am about to go the way of all the earth. Be strong, and show yourself a man,and keep the charge of the Lord your God, walking in his ways and keeping his statutes, his commandments, his rules, and his testimonies, as it is written in the Law of Moses, that you may prosper in all that you do and wherever you turn,that the Lord may establish his word that he spoke concerning me, saying,‘ If your sons pay close attention to their way, to walk before me in faithfulness with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.’

In the one case tithes are received by mortal men, but in the other case, by one of whom it is testified that he lives.

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.

The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation—

Jacob lived in the land of his father’s sojournings, in the land of Canaan.

But I will bring judgment on the nation that they serve, and afterward they shall come out with great possessions.

“ And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.

And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,

since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.

“ Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word;