You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

So on that day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites,

This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

Of Asher he said: Asher is blessed with children, may he be favored by his brothers and may he dip his foot in olive oil.

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.

Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!”

explain to your children, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

Now Jericho was shut tightly because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter.

Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them

No Anakites were left in Israelite territory, though some remained in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.

and all the cities of King Sihon of the Amorites who ruled in Heshbon, and ended at the Ammonite border.

Moses assigned land to the half-tribe of Manasseh by its clans.

The Israelites followed the Lord’s instructions to Moses and divided up the land.

Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron.

The western border was the Mediterranean Sea. These were the borders of the tribe of Judah and its clans.

When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s brother, captured it, Caleb gave Acsah his daughter to him as a wife.

(The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but Tappuah, located on the border of Manasseh, belonged to the tribe of Ephraim.)

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.

seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.