The Pillars of Three Faiths: Tanakh, Bible & Qu'ran. Various Authors

said:Blessed of the Lord be his land;For the precious things of heaven, for the dew,And for the deep that coucheth beneath,¹⁴And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun,And for the precious things of the yield of the moons,¹⁵And for the tops of the ancient mountains,And for the precious things of the everlasting hills,¹⁶And for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof,And the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush;Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph,And upon the crown of the head of him that is prince among his brethren.¹⁷His firstling bullock, majesty is his;And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox;With them he shall gore the peoples all of them, even the ends of the earth;And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim,And they are the thousands of Manasseh. ¹⁸And of Zebulun he said:Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out,And, Issachar, in thy tents.¹⁹They shall call peoples unto the mountain;There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness;For they shall suck the abundance of the seas,And the hidden treasures of the sand. ²⁰And of Gad he said:Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad;He dwelleth as a lioness,And teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head.²¹And he chose a first part for himself,For there a portion of a ruler was reserved;And there came the heads of the people,He executed the righteousness of the Lord,And His ordinances with Israel. ²²And of Dan he said:Dan is a lion's whelp,That leapeth forth from Bashan. ²³And of Naphtali he said:O Naphtali, satisfied with favour,And full with the blessing of the Lord:Possess thou the sea and the south. ²⁴And of Asher he said:Blessed be Asher above sons;Let him be the favoured of his brethren,And let him dip his foot in oil.²⁵Iron and brass shall be thy bars;And as thy days, so shall thy strength be. ²⁶There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun,Who rideth upon the heaven as thy help,And in His excellency on the skies.²⁷The eternal God is a dwelling-place,And underneath are the everlasting arms;And He thrust out the enemy from before thee,And said: 'Destroy.'²⁸And Israel dwelleth in safety,The fountain of Jacob alone,In a land of corn and wine;Yea, his heavens drop down dew.²⁹Happy art thou, O Israel, who is like unto thee?A people saved by the Lord,The shield of thy help,And that is the sword of thy excellency!And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee;And thou shalt tread upon their high places.

      34And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord showed him all the land, even Gilead as far as Dan; ²and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the hinder sea; ³and the South, and the Plain, even the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, as far as Zoar. ⁴And the Lord said unto him: 'This is the land which I swore unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying: I will give it unto thy seed; I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.' ⁵So Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord. ⁶And he was buried in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. ⁷And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. ⁸And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days; so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. ⁹And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses. ¹⁰And there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face; ¹¹in all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; ¹²and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.

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      JOSHUA (Yĕhôshúa‘)

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      1Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying: ²'Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. ³Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spoke unto Moses. ⁴From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. ⁵There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. ⁶Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them. ⁷Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded thee; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest. ⁸This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy ways prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. ⁹Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.'

      ¹⁰Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying: ¹¹'Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying: Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it.'

      ¹²And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying: ¹³'Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, you, saying: The Lord your God giveth you rest, and will give you this land. ¹⁴Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall pass over before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and shall help them; ¹⁵until the Lord have given your brethren rest, as unto you, and they also have possessed the land which the Lord your God giveth them; then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising.'

      ¹⁶And they answered Joshua, saying: 'All that thou hast commanded us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go. ¹⁷According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee; only the Lord thy God be with thee, as He was with Moses. ¹⁸Whosoever he be that shall rebel against thy commandment, and shall not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death; only be strong and of good courage.'

      2And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two spies secretly, saying: 'Go view the land, and Jericho.' And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there. ²And it was told the king of Jericho, saying: 'Behold, there came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel to search out the land.' ³And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying: 'Bring forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house; for they are come to search out all the land.' ⁴And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said: 'Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were; ⁵and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.' ⁶But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof. ⁷And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords; and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, the gate was shut. ⁸And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; ⁹and she said unto the men: 'I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. ¹⁰For we have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye