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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
This Book is called JOSUE, because it contains the history of whatpassed under him, and according to the common opinion was written byhim. The Greeks call him Jesus: for Josue and Jesus in the Hebrew, arethe same name, and have the same signification, viz., A SAVIOUR. And itwas not without a mystery that he who was to bring the people into theland of promise should have his name changed from OSEE (for so he wascalled before, Num. 13.17,) to JOSUE or JESUS, to give us to understand,that Moses by his law could only bring the people within sight of thepromised inheritance, but that our Saviour JESUS was to bring us intoit.
Josue Chapter 1
Josue, encouraged by the Lord, admonisheth the people to preparethemselves to pass over the Jordan.
1:1. Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of theLord, that the Lord spoke to Josue, the son of Nun, the minister ofMoses, and said to him:
1:2. Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this Jordan, thouand thy people with thee, into the land which I will give to thechildren of Israel.
1:3. I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your foot shalltread upon, as I have said to Moses.
1:4. From the desert, and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates,all the land of the Hethites, unto the great sea toward the going downof the sun, shall be your border.
1:5. No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as Ihave been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, norforsake thee.
1:6. Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to thispeople the land for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliverit to them.
1:7. Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou maystobserve and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee:turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou maystunderstand all things which thou dost.
1:8. Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shaltmeditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all thingsthat are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understandit.
1:9. Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, andbe not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all thingswhatsoever thou shalt go to.
1:10. And Josue commanded the princes of the people, saying: Passthrough the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:
1:11. Prepare your victuals: for after the third day you shall pass overthe Jordan, and shall