The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

The Deuteronomistic history draws parallels in proper leadership between Moses, Joshua and Josiah.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

* Joshua sent spies to scout out the land near Jericho ( 2: 1 ), just as Moses sent spies from the wilderness to scout out the Promised Land ( Num.

* Joshua led the Israelites out of the wilderness into the Promised Land, crossing the Jordan River as if on dry ground ( 3: 16 ), just as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt through the Red Sea, which they crossed as if on dry land ( Ex.

* Joshua successfully intercedes on behalf of the Israelites when Yahweh is angry for their failure to fully observe the " ban " ( herem ), just as Moses frequently persuaded God not to punish the people ( Ex.

* Joshua and the Israelites were able to defeat the people at Ai because Joshua followed the divine instruction to extend his sword ( Josh 8: 18 ), just as the people were able to defeat the Amalekites as long as Moses extended his hand that held " the staff of God " ( Ex.

* Joshua served as the mediator of the renewed covenant between Yahweh and Israel at Shechem ( 8: 30 – 35 ; 24 ), just as Moses was the mediator of Yahweh's covenant with the people at Mount Sinai / Mount Horeb.

* Before his death Joshua delivered a farewell address to the Israelites ( 23 – 24 ), just as Moses had delivered his farewell address ( Deut.

Moses is ordered to appoint Joshua as his successor.

The book is as intriguing for the themes it leaves out as for what it includes: the ark of the covenant, which is given so much importance in the stories of Moses and Joshua, is almost entirely missing, cooperation between the various tribes is limited, and there is no mention of a central shrine for worship or of a high priest ( the office to which Aaron was appointed at the end of the Exodus story ).

God calls Moses up the mountain to receive a set of stone tablets containing the law, and he and Joshua go up, leaving Aaron in charge.

" according to Numbers 13: 8, 13: 16 that was the original name of Joshua son of Nun, till Moses gave him the longer name ( compounded with the name of Yahweh ) which he continued to bear ( yehoshua `), " Yahweh is salvation.

It is known in Judeo-Christian tradition as the place of the Israelites ' return from bondage in Egypt, led by Joshua, the successor to Moses.

Joshua ( Yĕhôshúa ‘;, Yūshaʿ ibn Nūn ), is a figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel ( Num 13-14 ) and in few passages as Moses ' assistant.

According to the books Exodus, Numbers and Joshua, he became the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses ; his name was Hoshe ' a the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him Yehoshu ' a ( Joshua ) () the name by which he is commonly known ; and he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus, and was probably the same age as Caleb, with whom he is occasionally associated.

All Muslims also see Joshua as the leader of the Israelites, following the death of Moses.

He, along with Moses, performed " signs " before his people which impressed them with a belief in the reality of the divine mission of the brothers ( Exodus 4: 15 – 16 ).

In the early 1920s, when Moses Jackson was dying in Canada, Housman wanted to assemble his best unpublished poems so that Jackson could read them before his death.

The book consists of three sermons or speeches delivered to the Israelites by Moses on the plains of Moab, shortly before they enter the Promised Land.

Yahweh instructs Moses to appear before the pharaoh and inform him of God's demand that he let God's people go.

Elijah is the only person described in the Bible as going back to Horeb after Moses and his generation had left Horeb several centuries before.

Some say that they were godless people, who in their lifetime had denied the resurrection, and committed other sins ; others think they were those Ephraimites who tried to escape from Egypt before Moses and perished in the attempt.

However, before this, some MPPC members got around this restriction by occasionally making longer stories in separate parts, and releasing them in successive weeks, starting with Vitagraph's The Life of Moses in five parts ( and five reels ) at the end 1909.

It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's " wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence " " in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world ; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned ; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully ; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong ; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots ; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains ; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God ; and in very many other biblical types of this kind.

Muslims also believe Joshua to be the " attendant " of Moses mentioned in the Qur ’ ān, before Moses meets Khidr.

The vocalization of the second name component may be read as Hoshea-the name used in the Torah before Moses added the divine name ().

Muslims also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that was revealed at many times and places before, including through the prophets Abraham, Moses and Jesus.

" In Muslim belief, before the Qur ' an, God had given the Torah to Moses, the Psalms to David and the Gospel to Jesus, who are all considered important Muslim prophets.

Moses before the Pharaoh, a 6th century miniature from the Syriac Bible of Paris.

:" The LORD said to Moses, " When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do.

One Biblical periodization scheme commonly used in the Middle Ages was Saint Paul's theological division of history in to three ages: the first before the age of Moses ( under nature ); the second under Mosaic law ( under law ); the third in the age of Christ ( under grace ).

Of all the figures before Muhammad, Moses is referred to most frequently in the Qur ' an.

It was first invented, he believes, before the Trojan war, by a Sidonian thinker named Moschus or Mochus, who is identical with the Moses of the Old Testament.

In the Book of Exodus, Moses was instructed to remove his shoes before approaching the burning bush:

# Deuteronomy: " second law ," refers to the fifth book's recapitulation of the commandments reviewed by Moses before his death.

The Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE and so before revealing the Zohar in 1270, Moses De Leon uncovered the manuscripts in a cave in Israel.

Even he agrees that it was extant before the time of R ' Moses De Leon.

It is likewise the holy rod with which Moses worked ( Exodus 4: 20, 21 ), with which Aaron performed wonders before Pharaoh ( Exodus 7: 10 ), and with which, finally, David slew the giant Goliath ( I Samuel 17: 40 ).

The widespread practice is that on the first Sabbath of his thirteenth year, a boy is called up to read from the weekly portion of the Law ( five books of Moses ), either as one of the first seven men or as the last, in which case he will read the closing verses and the Haftarah ( selections from the books of the Prophets ); and if he is unable to read, to recite at least the benediction before and after the reading.

* Ark of bulrushes, the boat of the infant Moses

According to some traditional interpretations of the Book of Exodus, Book of Numbers, and the Letter to the Hebrews the Ark also contained Aaron's rod, a jar of manna and the first Torah scroll as written by Moses ; however, the first of the Books of Kings says that at the time of king Solomon, the Ark contained only the two Tablets of the Law.

According to the Book of Exodus, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accordance with the instructions given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

Moses instructed Bezalel and Oholiab to construct the Ark ( Exodus 31 ).

After its creation by Moses, the Ark was carried by the Israelites during their 40 years of wandering in the desert.

According to Al-Jalalan, the relics in the Ark were the fragments of the two tablets, rods, robes, shoes, mitres of Moses and the vase of manna.

* Munro-Hay, Stuart., The Quest For The Ark of The Covenant: The True History of The Tablets of Moses.

# Moses had been instructed by God according to to make golden statues of cherubim angels on the lid of the Ark of the Covenant, and according to God instructed Moses to embroider the curtain which separated the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle with cherubim.

The Book of Deuteronomy ( and ) describes how Moses writes " torah " ( instruction ) on a scroll and lays it beside the Ark of the Covenant.

sakīnah is mentioned six times in the Quran, in chapters 2, 9 and 48. Their prophet said to them: " The sign of his kingship is that the Ark will come to you in which there is tranquility from your Lord and a relic from the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, borne by the angels.

This area housed the Ark of the Covenant ( aron habrit ), inside which were the two stone tablets brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses on which were written the Ten Commandments, a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's rod that budded and bore ripe almonds.

Despite the eventual termination of the supply of manna, Exodus states that a small amount of it survived within an omer-sized pot or jar, which was kept facing the Testimony ( possibly, adjacent to the Ark of the Covenant ); it indicates that Yahweh instructed this of Moses, who delegated it to Aaron.

He also observes that in the Old Testament, images and statues were not absolutely condemned in themselves: examples include the images of cherubim over the Ark of the Covenant () which God instructed Moses to make, the embroidered figures of cherubim angels which God told Moses to make on the curtain which separated the Holy of Holies in the Tabernacle tent (), or the bronze serpent mentioned in the book of Numbers.

Another similarity is declared with the Ark of the Covenant described as the ritual object above which Yahweh was present ( Numbers 10: 33-36 ); or the burning bush which, according to Exodus, God spoke Moses through ; or the Ten Commandments which were the Word of God (" Dabar Elohim ") in tablet form.

Moses and the directions ' God ' gave him to construct the Ark of the Covenant, which is assumed to be a communication device with an alien race.

The Hebrew Bible possibly mentions cannabis in Exodus 30: 23 where God commands Moses to make a holy oil of myrrh, cinnamon, qěnēh bośem and cassia to anoint the Ark of the Covenant and the Tabernacle ( and thus God's Temple in Jerusalem ).

The " whole congregation of Israel assembled ... and set up the tabernacle of the congregation ..." ( Joshua 18: 1 ), built under Moses ' direction from God ( Exodus 26 ) to house the Ark of the Covenant, also built under Moses ' direction from God ( Exodus 25 ).

The Ark of the Covenant is said to have contained the Ten Commandments, which were believed to have been given by God to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai.

The company's first release as Wisdom Tree was Bible Adventures, a three-in-one multicart which borrowed many gameplay elements found in the American Super Mario Bros. 2, applied to three different Bible stories: Noah collecting animals for the Ark, saving Baby Moses from Pharaoh's men, and re-enacting the story of David and Goliath.

Friedman states that the smashing of the Ten Commandments by Moses when he beheld the worship of the golden calf, is really an attempt to cast into doubt the validity of Judah's central shrine, the Ark of the Covenant.