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goe ouer before your brethren armed, all that be
men of warre, and shall helpe them, 15 Vntill the
The Book of Joshua Lord haue giuen your brethren rest, as well as to
you, and vntill they also shall possesse the land,
1 Nowe after the death of Moses the seruant of which the Lord your God giueth them: then shall
the Lord, the Lord spake vnto Ioshua the sonne of ye returne vnto the lande of your possession and
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Nun, Moses minister, saying, Moses my seruant shall possesse it, which land Moses the Lordes
is dead: nowe therefore arise, go ouer this Iorden, seruant gaue you on this side Iorden toward the
thou, and all this people, vnto the lande which sunne rising. 16 Then they answered Ioshua,
I giue them, that is, to ye children of Israel. saying, Al that thou hast commanded vs, we will
3 Euery place that the sole of your foote shall doe, and whithersoeuer thou sendest vs, we will
treade vpon, haue I giuen you, as I said vnto goe. 17 As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will
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Moses. From the wildernesse and this Lebanon we obey thee: onely the Lord thy God be with
euen vnto the great riuer, the riuer Perath: all thee, as he was with Moses. 18 Whosoeuer shall
the land of the Hittites, euen vnto the great Sea rebell against thy commandement, and will not
towarde the going downe of the sunne, shalbe obey thy wordes in all that thou commaundest
your coast. 5 There shall not a man be able to him, let him bee put to death: onely be strong
withstande thee all the dayes of thy life: as I and of good courage.
was with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will
not leaue thee, nor forsake thee. 6 Be strong 2
and of a good courage: for vnto this people shalt 1 Then Ioshua the sonne of Nun sent out of
thou deuide the lande for an inheritance, which Shittim two men to spie secretly, saying, Go, view
I sware vnto their fathers to giue them. 7 Onely the land, and also Iericho: and they went, and
be thou strong, and of a most valiant courage, came into an harlots house, named Rahab, and
that thou mayest obserue and doe according lodged there. 2 Then report was made to the
to all the Lawe which Moses my seruant hath King of Iericho, saying, Beholde, there came men
commanded thee: thou shalt not turne away hither to night, of the children of Israel, to spie
from it to the right hande, nor to the left, that out the countrey. 3 And the King of Iericho sent
thou mayest prosper whithersoeuer thou goest. vnto Rahab, saying, Bring foorth the men that are
8 Let not this booke of the Law depart out of come to thee, and which are entred into thine
thy mouth, but meditate therin day and night, house: for they be come to search out all the
that thou mayest obserue and doe according to land. 4 (But ye woman had taken the two men,
all that is written therein: for then shalt thou and hid them) Therefore saide she thus, There
make thy way prosperous, and then shalt thou came men vnto me, but I wist not whence they
haue good successe. 9 Haue not I commanded were. And when they shut the gate in the darke,
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thee, saying, Be strong and of a good courage, the men went out, whither the men went I wote
feare not, nor be discouraged? for I the Lord not: follow ye after them quickly, for ye shall
thy God will be with thee, whithersoeuer thou ouertake them. 6 (But she had brought them vp
goest. 10 Then Ioshua commanded the officers to the roofe of the house, and hidde them with
of the people, saying, 11 Passe through the hoste, the stalkes of flaxe, which she had spread abroad
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and commande the people, saying, Prepare you vpon the roofe) And certaine men pursued after
vitailes: for after three dayes ye shall passe ouer them, the way to Iorden, vnto the foordes, and
this Iorden, to goe in to possesse the lande, which as soone as they which pursued after them, were
the Lord your God giueth you to possesse it. gone out, they shut the gate. 8 And before they
12 And vnto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, were a sleepe, she came vp vnto them vpon the
and to halfe the tribe of Manasseh spake Ioshua, roofe, 9 And saide vnto the men, I knowe that
saying, 13 Remember the worde, which Moses the the Lord hath giuen you the land, and that the
seruant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The feare of you is fallen vpon vs, and that all the
Lord your God hath giuen you rest, and hath inhabitantsofthelandfaintbecauseofyou. 10 For
giuen you this land. 14 Your wiues, your children, we haue heard, howe the Lord dried vp the water
and your cattell shall remaine in the land which of the redde Sea before you, when you came out
Moses gaue you on this side Iorden: but ye shall of Egypt, and what you did vnto the two Kings