14 ¶ Your wives, your children, and your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you [a]on this side Jordan: but ye shall go over before your brethren armed, all that be men of war, and shall help them,

15 Until the Lord have given your brethren rest as well as to you, and until they also shall possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth them: then shall ye return unto the land of your possession, and shall possess it, which land Moses the Lord’s [b]servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sun rising.

16 Then they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast commanded us, we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 1:14 Or, beyond Jordan from Jericho.
  2. Joshua 1:15 By your request, but yet by God’s secret appointment, Deut. 33:21.

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