Joshua 1:4-8

Contemporary English Version

⁴It will reach from the Southern Desert to the Lebanon Mountains in the north, and to the northeast as far as the great Euphrates River. It will include the land of the Hittites,^[a] and the land from here at the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea on the west. ⁵^(A) Joshua, I will always be with you and help you as I helped Moses, and no one will ever be able to defeat you.

^6-8^(B) Long ago I promised the ancestors of Israel that I would give this land to their descendants. So be strong and brave! Be careful to do everything my servant Moses taught you. Never stop reading The Book of the Law^[b] he gave you. Day and night you must think about what it says. If you obey it completely, you and Israel will be able to take this land.

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Footnotes

1.4 the land … Hittites: This refers to the northern part of Syria, which had been the southernmost part of the Hittite Empire.
1.6-8 the Law: Or “Teachings.”