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So Moses said to Joshua, “Choose men for us and go out, fight against Amalek. Tomorrow I will station myself on the top of the hill with the staff of God in my hand.”
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Joshua did as Moses told him, and fought against Amalek; and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
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So Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.
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Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
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So Moses arose with Joshua his servant, and Moses went up to the mountain of God.
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Now when Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.”
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Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, just as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.
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Then Joshua the son of Nun, the attendant of Moses from his youth, said, “Moses, my lord, restrain them.”
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These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; but Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Joshua.
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Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, of those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes;
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Surely you shall not come into the land in which I swore to settle you, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive out of those men who went to spy out the land.
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For the Lord had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” And not a man was left of them, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.
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Joshua to Succeed Moses
Then Moses spoke to the Lord, saying,
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So the Lord said to Moses, “Take Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him;
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Moses did just as the Lord commanded him; and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation.
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except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed the Lord fully.’
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So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
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“These are the names of the men who shall apportion the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun.
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Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter there; encourage him, for he will cause Israel to inherit it.
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I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so the Lord shall do to all the kingdoms into which you are about to cross.
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But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall go across at the head of this people, and he will give them as an inheritance the land which you will see.’
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It is the Lord your God who will cross ahead of you; He will destroy these nations before you, and you shall dispossess them. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, just as the Lord has spoken.
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Then Moses called to Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall give it to them as an inheritance.
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Israel Will Fall Away
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, the time for you to die is near; call Joshua, and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.