9. Behold, I am instructing you. Be strengthened, and be steadfast. Do not dread, and do not fear. For the Lord your God is with you in all things, wherever you may go."
10. And Joshua instructed the leaders of the people, saying: "Cross through the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:
11. 'Prepare your food supplies. For after the third day, you shall cross the Jordan, and you shall enter so as to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give to you.' "
12. Likewise, he said to the Reubenites and to the Gadites, and to the one half tribe of Manasseh:
13. "Remember the words, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, instructed to you, saying: 'The Lord your God has given you rest, and has given you all the land.'