The change of leadership from Moshe to Yehoshua

This is the blessing with which Moses, the man of God, bade the Israelites farewell before he died.

When Moses charged us with the Teaching
As the heritage of the congregation of Jacob.

Moses went up from the steppes of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, opposite Jericho, and the LORD showed him the whole land: Gilead as far as Dan;

all Naphtali; the land of Ephraim and Manasseh; the whole land of Judah as far as the Western Sea;

the Negeb; and the Plain—the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees—as far as Zoar.

And the LORD said to him, “This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, ‘I will assign it to your offspring.’ I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you shall not cross there.”

So Moses the servant of the LORD died there, in the land of Moab, at the command of the LORD.

He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day.

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eyes were undimmed and his vigor unabated.

And the Israelites bewailed Moses in the steppes of Moab for thirty days.
The period of wailing and mourning for Moses came to an end.

Now Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the Israelites heeded him, doing as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses—whom the LORD singled out, face to face,

for the various signs and portents that the LORD sent him to display in the land of Egypt, against Pharaoh and all his courtiers and his whole country,

and for all the great might and awesome power that Moses displayed before all Israel.

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

“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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Joshua thereupon gave orders to the officials of the people: