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Moses said to Joshua, “Choose some men for us and go out; fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
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So Joshua did as Moses told him and fought with Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
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And Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the sword.
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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this as a remembrance in a book and recite it in the hearing of Joshua: I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
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So Moses set out with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up onto the mountain of God.
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When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a noise of war in the camp.”
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Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. Then he would return to the camp, but his young assistant, Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the tent.
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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.
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Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, shall enter there; encourage him, for he is the one who will secure Israel’s possession of it.
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And I charged Joshua as well at that time, saying: ‘Your own eyes have seen everything that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so the Lord will do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross.
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But charge Joshua and encourage and strengthen him, because it is he who shall cross over at the head of this people and who shall secure their possession of the land that you will see.’
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Joshua Becomes Moses’s Successor
When Moses had finished speaking all these words to all Israel,
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The Lord your God himself will cross over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua also will cross over before you, as the Lord promised.
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Then Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and bold, for you are the one who will go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their ancestors to give them, and you will put them in possession of it.