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none assurance of thy life. In the morning thou shalt say, Would it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see. But if thou shalt cleave unto these statutes and keep this covenant, then shall the Lord thy God open unto thee his good treasure, and shall make thee plenteous in every good work, and shall rejoice over thee for good: if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep this covenant and this commandment, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul.

For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not too hard for thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it? But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thine heart, that thou mayest do it.

See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; in that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, and to walk in his ways. I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy children; to love the Lord

thy God, to obey his voice, and to cleave unto him; for this is thy life, and the length of thy days.

DEUTERONOMY XXXI

Numbers xxvii. Joshua i

And Moses prayed unto the Lord, saying, Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation, who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them; that the congregation of the Lord be not as sheep which have no shepherd. And the Lord said, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay thine hand upon him; and set him before all the congregation; and give him a charge in their sight.

And Moses did as the Lord commanded him; and he called unto him Joshua, and set him before all the congregation, and laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge. And Moses said unto Joshua in the sight of all the congregation:

Be strong and of good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither will he forsake thee. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest

prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then shalt thou make thy way prosperous, and shalt have good success. Be strong and of good courage; fear not, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

DEUTERONOMY XXXIII

And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. And he said:

There is none like unto the God of Jes

hurun for help,

Who rideth upon the heavens,

And in his majesty on the skies.

The eternal God is thy refuge,

And underneath are the everlasting arms.

Happy art thou, O Israel!

Who is like unto thee, a people saved by the Lord,

Who also is the shield of thy help,

And the sword of thine excellency!

Thou shalt be shod with iron and brass;
And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

DEUTERONOMY XXXII, XXXIV
Numbers xxvii

And the Lord spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying, Get thee up into this mountain

of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession. And thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither: for in the mount whither thou goest up shalt thou die, and be gathered unto thy fathers; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his fathers.

And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Napthali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the western sea, and the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar. And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, Unto thy children will I give it. I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes; but thou shalt not go over thither. So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. And there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face.

THE BOOK OF JOSHUA

JOSHUA VI

Now the gates of Jericho were straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out and none came in. And the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, saying, I have given this city into thine hand. Take therefore seven priests, and let them bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the covenant, and let the priests blow the trumpets. And ye shall compass the city, going round about it once. Thus shalt thou do six days; and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times. And it shall be, that, when the priests make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down of itself.

And Joshua called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the Lord, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord. And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city. Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout. And it was so, that, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before

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