The Death of Moses and the Commissioning of Joshua

1 Then Moses went up from the desert plateauof Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is oppositeJericho, and Yahweh showed him all of the land, Gilead all the way up to Dan,

2 and all of Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh and all of the land of Judah, up to the western sea,

3 and the Negev and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palms, on up to Zoar.

4 And Yahweh said to him, “This is the land that I swore to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob, saying,‘To your offspring I will give it.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross into it.”

5 Then Moses, the servant of Yahweh, died there in the land of Moab according to the command of Yahweh.

6 And heburied him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. But until this day no one knows his burial site.

7 Now Moses was a hundred and twenty years oldwhen he died;his sight was not impaired and his vigor had not abated.

8 And the Israeliteswept concerning Moses thirty days; finally the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were completed.

9 NowJoshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom because Moses had placed his hands on him, and the Israeliteslistened to him, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

10 And not againhas a prophet arisen in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knewface to face,

11 as far as all the signs and the wonders Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, againstPharaoh and all of his servants and againstall of his land,

12 and as far as all of the mighty deedsand as far as the great awesome wondersMoses did before the eyes of all Israel.