Gen 45:5, 7, 11, 47:12, 50:21, Num 27:16-18, Deu 34:9, Jos 1:1-9, Jos 24 | ESV | STEP | And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here , for God sent me before you to preserve life .

11 ^bThere I will provide for you, for there are yet five years of famine to come, so that you and your household, and all that you have, do not come to poverty.’

Genesis 47:12

12 And Joseph ^cprovided his father, his brothers, and all his father’s household with food, according to the number of their dependents.

Genesis 50:21

21 So do not fear; ^dI will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.

Numbers 27:16-18

16 “Let the Lord, ^ethe God of the spirits of all flesh, appoint a man over the congregation 17 who ^fshall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be ^gas sheep that have no shepherd.” 18 So the Lord said to Moses, “Take ^hJoshua the son of Nun, a man ⁱin whom is the Spirit, and ^jlay your hand on him.

Deuteronomy 34:9

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of ^kthe spirit of wisdom, for ^lMoses had laid his hands on him. So ^mthe people of Israel obeyed him and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Joshua 1:1-9

God Commissions Joshua

1 After the death of Moses the ⁿservant of the Lord, the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ ^oassistant, 2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. 3 ^pEvery place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. 4 ^qFrom the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. 5 ^rNo man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just ^sas I was with Moses, so ^tI will be with you. ^uI will not leave you or forsake you. 6 ^vBe strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them. 7 Only be strong and ^wvery courageous, being careful to do according to all the law ^xthat Moses my servant commanded you. ^yDo not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success ^{▼▼Or may act wisely} wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but ^aayou shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. 9 Have I not commanded you? ^abBe strong and courageous. ^acDo not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

Joshua 24

The Covenant Renewal at Shechem

1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel ^adto Shechem and ^aesummoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. And ^afthey presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, ^agyour fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, ^{▼▼Hebrew the River} Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and ^aithey served other gods. 3 ^ajThen I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and ^akled him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. ^alI gave him Isaac. 4 And to Isaac I gave ^amJacob and Esau. ^anAnd I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, ^aobut Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. 5 ^apAnd I sent Moses and Aaron, ^aqand I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and ^arafterward I brought you out.

6 “‘Then ^asI brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ^atyou came to the sea. ^auAnd the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 7 ^avAnd when they cried to the Lord, ^awhe put darkness between you and the Egyptians ^axand made the sea come upon them and cover them; ^ayand your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. ^azAnd you lived in the wilderness a long time. 8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. ^baThey fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. 9 ^bbThen Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. ^bcAnd he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you, 10 ^bdbut I would not listen to Balaam. ^beIndeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand. 11 ^bfAnd you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, ^bgand the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also ^bhthe Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand. 12 And I sent ^bithe hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was ^bjnot by your sword or by your bow. 13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored ^bkand cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.’

Choose Whom You Will Serve

14 ^bl“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. ^bmPut away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 ^bnAnd if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, ^bochoose this day whom you will serve, whether ^bpthe gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or ^bqthe gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. ^brBut as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

16 Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods, 17 for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed. 18 And the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”

19 But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is ^bsa holy God. He is ^bta jealous God; ^buhe will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. 20 ^bvIf you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then ^bwhe will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.” 21 And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord.” 22 Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that ^bxyou have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” 23 He said, “Then ^byput away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel.” 24 And the people said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.” 25 So Joshua ^bzmade a covenant with the people that day, and put in place ^castatutes and rules for them at Shechem. 26 And Joshua ^cbwrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And ^cche took a large stone and set it up there ^cdunder the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. 27 And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, ^cethis stone shall be a witness against us, for ^cfit has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.” 28 So Joshua ^cgsent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

Joshua’s Death and Burial

29 ^chAfter these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old. 30 And they buried him in his own inheritance at ^ciTimnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

31 ^cjIsrael served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua ^ckand had known all the work that the Lord did for Israel.

32 ^clAs for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land ^cmthat Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. ^{▼▼Hebrew for a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value} It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of ^coPhinehas his son, which had been given him in ^cpthe hill country of Ephraim.