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Deuteronomy 28 - Blessings for Obedience, Warnings against Disobedience

If you will only obey the Lord your God, by diligently observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today, the Lord your God...

Deuteronomy 29 - The Covenant Renewed in Moab

[a] These are the words of the covenant that the Lord commanded Moses to make with the Israelites in the land of Moab, in addition to the...

Deuteronomy 30 - God’s Fidelity Assured, Exhortation to Choose Life

When all these things have happened to you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, if you call them to mind among all...

Deuteronomy 31 - Joshua Becomes Moses’ Successor, The Law to Be Read Every Seventh Year, Moses' Song

When Moses had finished speaking all[a] these words to all Israel, 2 he said to them: “I am now one hundred twenty years old. I am no...

Deuteronomy 32 - Song of Moses, Moses’ Death Foretold

Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth. 2 May my teaching drop like the rain, my speech condense...

Deuteronomy 33 - Moses’ Final Blessing on Israel

This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, blessed the Israelites before his death. 2 He said: The Lord came from Sinai, and...

Deuteronomy 34 - Moses Dies and Is Buried in the Land of Moab

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho, and the Lord showed him the...

Joshua 1 - God’s Commission to Joshua, Preparations for the Invasion

After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying, 2 “My servant Moses is...

Joshua 2 - Spies Sent to Jericho

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went, and...

Joshua 3 - Israel Crosses the Jordan

Early in the morning Joshua rose and set out from Shittim with all the Israelites, and they came to the Jordan. They camped there before...

Joshua 4 - Twelve Stones Set Up at Gilgal

When the entire nation had finished crossing over the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua: 2 “Select twelve men from the people, one from...

Joshua 5 - The New Generation Circumcised, The Passover at Gilgal, Joshua’s Vision

When all the kings of the Amorites beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites by the sea, heard that the Lord had...

Joshua 6 - Jericho Taken and Destroyed

Now Jericho was shut up inside and out because of the Israelites; no one came out and no one went in. 2 The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I...

Joshua 7 - The Sin of Achan and Its Punishment

But the Israelites broke faith in regard to the devoted things: Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took...

Joshua 8 - Ai Captured by a Stratagem and Destroyed, Joshua Renews the Covenant

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed; take all the fighting men with you, and go up now to Ai. See, I have handed...

Joshua 9 - The Gibeonites Save Themselves by Trickery

Now when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan in the hill country and in the lowland all along the coast of the Great Sea toward...

Joshua 10 - The Sun Stands Still, Five Kings Defeated

When King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it, doing to Ai and its king as he had done...

Joshua 11 - The United Kings of Northern Canaan Defeated, Summary of Joshua’s Conquests

When King Jabin of Hazor heard of this, he sent to King Jobab of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph, 2 and to the...

Joshua 12 - The Kings Conquered by Moses, Kings Conquered by Joshua

Now these are the kings of the land, whom the Israelites defeated, whose land they occupied beyond the Jordan toward the east, from the...

Joshua 13 - Parts of Canaan Unconquered, East of the Jordan, Reuben, Gad, Half-Tribe of Manasseh

Now Joshua was old and advanced in years; and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and very much of the land still...

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