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And Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses, one of his chosen men, said, “My lord Moses, stop them!”
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These were the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses changed the name of Hoshea son of Nun to Joshua.
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And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes
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not one of you shall come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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But Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh alone remained alive, of those men who went to spy out the land.
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For the Lord had said of them, “They shall die in the wilderness.” Not one of them was left, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
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Joshua Appointed Moses’s Successor
The Lord said to Moses, “Go up this mountain of the Abarim range, and see the land that I have given to the Israelites.
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So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay your hand upon him;
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So Moses did as the Lord commanded him. He took Joshua and had him stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole congregation;
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none except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they have unreservedly followed the Lord.’
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So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the ancestral houses of the Israelite tribes.
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“These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land to you for inheritance: the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun.