Joshua 1

vayehi akhare mot mosheh eved Adonai vayyomer Adonai el-yehoshua bin-nun mesharet mosheh lemor

After the death of Moses the servant of GOD, GOD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ attendant:

mosheh avdi met ve'attah qum avor et-hayyarden hazzeh attah vekhol-ha'am hazzeh el-ha'arets asher anokhi noten lahem livne yisra'el

“My servant Moses is dead. Prepare to cross the Jordan, together with all this people, into the land that I am giving to the Israelites.

kol-maqom asher tidrokh kaf-raglekhem bo lakhem netattiv ka'asher dibbarti el-mosheh

Every spot on which your foot treads I give to you, as I promised Moses.

mehammidbar vehallevanon hazzeh ve'ad-hannahar haggadol nehar-perat kol erets hakhittim ve'ad-hayyam haggadol mevo hashamesh yihyeh gevulekhem

Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and the Lebanon to the Great River, the River Euphrates [on the east]—the whole Hittite country—and up to the Mediterranean Sea on the west.

lo-yityatsev ish lefanekha kol yeme khayyekha ka'asher hayiti im-mosheh ehyeh immakh lo arpekha velo e'ezvekka

No one shall be able to resist you as long as you live. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you.

khazaq ve'emats ki attah tankhil et-ha'am hazzeh et-ha'arets asher-nishbati la'avotam latet lahem

“Be strong and resolute, for you shall apportion to this people the land that I swore to their fathers to assign to them.

raq khazaq ve'emats me'od lishmor la'asot kekhol-hattorah asher tsivvekha mosheh avdi al-tasur mimmennu yamin usemovl lema'an taskil bekhol asher telekh

But you must be very strong and resolute to observe faithfully all the Teaching that My servant Moses enjoined upon you. Do not deviate from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

lo-yamush sefer hattorah hazzeh mippikha vehagita bo yomam valaylah lema'an tishmor la'asot kekhol-hakkatuv bo ki-az tatsliakh et-derakhekha ve'az taskil

Let not this Book of the Teaching cease from your lips, but recite it day and night, so that you may observe faithfully all that is written in it. Only then will you prosper in your undertakings and only then will you be successful.

halo tsivvitikha khazaq ve'emats al-ta'arots ve'al-tekhat ki immekha Adonai elohekha bekhol asher telekh

“I charge you: Be strong and resolute; do not be terrified or dismayed, for the ETERNAL your God is with you wherever you go.”

vayetsav yehoshua et-shotere ha'am lemor

Joshua thereupon gave orders to the officials of the people:

ivru beqerev hammakhaneh vetsavvu et-ha'am lemor hakhinu lakhem tsedah ki be'od sheloshet yamim attem overim et-hayyarden hazzeh lavo lareshet et-ha'arets asher Adonai elohekhem noten lakhem lerishtah

“Go through the camp and charge the people thus: Get provisions ready, for in three days’ time you are to cross the Jordan, in order to enter and possess the land that the ETERNAL your God is giving you as a possession.”

velaruveni velaggadi velakhatsi shevet hamenasheh amar yehoshua lemor

Then Joshua said to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

zakhor et-haddavar asher tsivvah etkhem mosheh eved-Adonai lemor Adonai elohekhem meniakh lakhem venatan lakhem et-ha'arets hazzot

“Remember what Moses the servant of GOD enjoined upon you, when he said, ‘The ETERNAL your God is granting you a haven and assigning this territory to you’:

neshekhem tappekhem umiqnekhem yeshevu ba'arets asher natan lakhem mosheh be'ever hayyarden ve'attem ta'avru khamushim lifne akhekhem kol gibbore hakhayil va'azartem otam

Let your wives, children, and livestock remain in the land that Moses assigned to you on this side of the Jordan; but every one of your fighting men shall go across armed in the van of your kindred. And you shall assist them

ad asher-yaniakh Adonai la'akhekhem kakhem veyareshu gam-hemmah et-ha'arets asher-Adonai elohekhem noten lahem veshavtem le'erets yerushatkhem virishtem otah asher natan lakhem mosheh eved Adonai be'ever hayyarden mizrakh hashamesh

until GOD has given your kindred a haven, such as you have, and they too have gained possession of the land that the ETERNAL your God has assigned to them. Then you may return to the land on the east side of the Jordan, which Moses the servant of GOD assigned to you as your possession, and you may possess it.”

vayya'anu et-yehoshua lemor kol asher-tsivvitanu na'aseh ve'el-kol-asher tishlakhenu nelekh

They answered Joshua, “We will do everything you have commanded us and we will go wherever you send us.

kekhol asher-shamanu el-mosheh ken nishma elekha raq yihyeh Adonai elohekha immakh ka'asher hayah im-mosheh

We will obey you just as we obeyed Moses; let but the ETERNAL your God be with you as with Moses!

kol-ish asher-yamreh et-pikha velo-yishma et-devarekha lekhol asher-tetsavvennu yumat raq khazaq ve'emats

Anyone who flouts your commands and does not obey every order you give him shall be put to death. Only be strong and resolute!”