and her husband heard about it, but remained silent about her, and did not overrule her, then all her vows will stand, and every obligation which she pledged for herself will stand.

“You and Eleazar the priest, and all the family leaders of the community, take the sum of the plunder that was captured, both people and animals.

Listen, Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan so you can dispossess the nations there, people greater and stronger than you who live in large cities with extremely high fortifications.

They include the Anakites, a numerous and tall people whom you know about and of whom it is said, “Who is able to resist the Anakites?”

Understand, therefore, that it is not because of your righteousness that the Lord your God is about to give you this good land as a possession, for you are a stubborn people!

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.

When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

You may eat any animal that has hooves divided into two parts and that chews the cud.

You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

You will celebrate all the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.

The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

Then if you and your descendants turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,

It is not in heaven, as though one must say, “Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

And it is not across the sea, as though one must say, “Who will cross over to the other side of the sea and get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”

You will die on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and joined his deceased ancestors,

Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them.

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?”

When Joshua was very old, the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.