After these things, the Lord spoke to Moses and commanded him to go up on a mountain, called mount Nebo, and to look from there across Jordan into the land where the children of Israel were going. Then, when he should have seen that land, the Lord said, Moses should die on the mount, as Aaron had died on mount Hor. And Moses went from the place where the children of Israel had their camp, on to the mountain which the Lord told him of. And when he came to the top of it, the Lord made him see very far over the land of Canaan, and told him that this was the land which He had promised Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give their descendants.

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there on the top of the mount, before the people came into that good land. And the Lord buried him in a valley, in the land of Moab, but no man has ever known the place where he was buried. He was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet he had not grown weak from age, but was well and strong until the day that the Lord took him.

After he was dead, Joshua ruled over the people, and they obeyed him as they had obeyed Moses. For the Lord gave Joshua wisdom, and made him able to teach them and guide them, as Moses had done before. But there was never afterward any man among the children of Israel, whom the Lord talked with, face to face, as He did with Moses, or whom He sent to do such wonderful works as He sent him to do in Egypt and in the wilderness.

die. And he told them he was a hundred and twenty years old that day, and could not go over Jordan with them, but Joshua, he said, would go. And he called Joshua before them all, and told him that he was to go with them, and lead them, and help them to take the land. And the Lord commanded Moses to come with Joshua to the tabernacle; and when they came there, the Lord appeared to them in the pillar of cloud, and He appointed Joshua to be ruler over the people after Moses should die.

And Moses wrote down in a book the laws which God had given him. And he commanded the priests and the elders, once every seven years, to gather all the people together, the men, the women, and the children, and to read those laws out loud to

them, that they might hear them and learn to obey them. And he gave the book to the Levites who carried the ark, and told them to take it and put it in the side of the ark, that it might always be kept there.

the king sent to Rahab, and asked her to bring out the men. Now the roofs of the houses in that country were flat, so that persons could walk on them. And Rahab took the two men up on the roof of her house, and hid them under some stalks of flax which were spread out to dry there.

And the king's messengers came, but could not find them. After the messengers had gone, Rahab went up and talked with

the men.

She told them that she knew the Lord had given the land to the children of Israel, for the people of Canaan had heard how He made the Red Sea dry for them to cross over it, and afterward helped them in fighting against their enemies. As soon as the people heard of these things, Rahab said, they

THE BOOK OF JOSHUA.

CHAPTERS I:-VIII.

(B.C. 1451.)

Joshua sends spies into the city of Jericho. They are hidden by Rahab, and afterward come back to the camp. The priests carry the ark before the people, who go over Jordan on dry ground. The Lord speaks to Joshua. The children of Israel take Jericho. Achan's sin and punishment. Ai is taken.

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ND the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, Moses, My servant, is dead. Now, therefore, do thou arise and take the children of Israel over Jordan, into that land which I give them. Be strong and brave, and very careful to obey all that is written in the book of the law, so that thou mayest do well and prosper. And fear not, for I will be with thee, to help thee wherever thou goest. Then Joshua spoke to the officers of the children of Israel, and said to them, Go through the camp and command all the people that they make food ready to take with them, for within three days you shall pass over Jordan.

And Joshua sent two men as spies over Jordan, to look at the land before the children of Israel should go into it. And the

men crossed over the river to a city of Canaan, called Jericho, and went into the house of a woman named Rahab. And some one told the king of Jericho, that two spies of the children of Israel had come into the city and were at Rahab's house. Then

ground into the middle of the river. There they stood with the ark, and waited while all the children of Israel passed over to the other side, into the land of Canaan.

The men of the two and a half tribes, who had asked to have their homes in the land of Gilead, went over also, as they had promised Moses to do, forty thousand of them, armed, to help

their brethren to fight against the nations of the land. After the people had gone over, the priests, carrying the ark, followed them. And as soon as they came up out of the river, and stood on the shore, the waters flowed in the river again, filling it as full as it had been before.

And the children of Israel made their camp at a place called Gilgal. There they found some of the corn that had grown in