Succession, Deposition, and Recitation of Text

31 And Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel. ² And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old today;^[a] I am not able to go out and to come in any longer, and Yahweh said to me, ‘You may not cross this Jordan.’ ³ Yahweh your God is about to cross before you;^[b] he will destroy these nations before you,^[c] and you shall dispossess them. Joshua will be crossing before you,^[d] just as Yahweh promised.^{[e] 4} And Yahweh will do to them just as he did to Sihon and to Og, kings of the Amorites, and to their land, which he destroyed with them. ⁵ And Yahweh will deliver them to you before you,^[f] and you shall do to them according to every commandment that I have commanded you. ⁶ Be strong and be courageous; you should not be afraid, and you should not be in dread from their presence,^[g] for Yahweh your God is the one going with you; he will not leave you alone and he will not forsake you.”

⁷ Then Moses summoned Joshua, and he said to him in the presence of all Israel,^[h] “Be strong and be courageous, for you will go with this people into the land that Yahweh swore to their ancestors^[i] to give to them, and you will give it to them as an inheritance. ⁸ Yahweh is the one going before you;^[j] he will be with you, and he will not leave you alone, and he will not forsake you; you shall not be afraid, and you shall not be discouraged.”