³¹ If anyone wants to buy back this fruit or grain, he must add a fifth to its value. ³² And the Lord owns every tenth animal of your herds and flocks and other domestic animals, as they pass by for counting. ³³ The tenth given to the Lord shall not be selected on the basis of whether it is good or bad, and there shall be no substitutions; for if there is any change made, then both the original and the substitution shall belong to the Lord, and may not be bought back!”

³⁴ These are the commandments the Lord gave to Moses for the people of Israel on Mount Sinai.

1 After the death of Moses, the Lord’s disciple, God spoke to Moses’ assistant, whose name was Joshua (the son of Nun), and said to him,

² “Now that my disciple is dead, you are the new leader of Israel.^[a] Lead my people across the Jordan River into the Promised Land. ³ I say to you what I said to Moses: ‘Wherever you go will be part of the land of Israel— ⁴ all the way from the Negeb Desert in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the north, and from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Euphrates River in the east, including all the land of the Hittites.’ ⁵ No one will be able to oppose you as long as you live, for I will be with you just as I was with Moses; I will not abandon you or fail to help you.

⁶ “Be strong and brave, for you will be a successful leader of my people; and they shall conquer all the land I promised to their ancestors.