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Hebrews 4:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Now if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterwards of another day.

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whose son was Nun, whose son was Joshua.

He gave them the lands of the nations, they took possession of the wealth of the peoples,

He drove out the nations before them, allotted them as their inherited portion, and settled in their tents the tribes of Israel.

Our ancestors who inherited it brought it with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out from before our ancestors, up to the time of David,

since you have not yet reached your resting place, the heritage which the Lord, your God, is giving you.

Therefore, when the Lord, your God, gives you rest from all your enemies round about in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you to possess as a heritage, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the heavens. Do not forget!

In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets;

Therefore, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God.

until the Lord has settled your kindred, and they like you possess the land the Lord, your God, is giving them. Afterward you may return and possess your own land, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, has given you east of the Jordan.”

Thus Joshua took the whole land, just as the Lord had said to Moses. Joshua gave it to Israel as their heritage, apportioning it among the tribes. And the land had rest from war.

Now that the Lord, your God, has settled your allies as he promised them, you may return to your tents, to your own land, which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you, across the Jordan.

Many years later, after the Lord had given the Israelites rest from all their enemies round about them, and when Joshua was old and advanced in years,




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