³⁸ Joshua, the son of Nun, your assistant,^[a] will go there; encourage him because he will cause Israel to inherit it. ³⁹ And your little children, who you thought shall become plunder, and your sons, who do not today know good or bad, shall themselves^[b] go there, and I will give it to them, and they shall take possession of it. ⁴⁰ But you turn and set out in the direction of the wilderness by way of the Red Sea.’^[c]