f whom
were giants, Moses wrote in a book the laws that God gave him for the
government of the people. They were wise laws, the keeping of which
would bring health, peace and blessedness to the people. He gave the
book to the Levites who carried the Ark, and they were to keep it
always beside the Ark, and often read it aloud to the people.

Moses said many things to the people, and as Jacob blessed his twelve
sons, so Moses blessed each of the twelve tribes that descended from
them, for he was near the end of his long life. The Lord had told him
that He should take him to Himself before the people entered Canaan,
and that Joshua must lead the people into the promised land. So when
they had reached the borders of Canaan, and were encamped near the
Jordan, the Lord called his tried servant up into Mount Nebo, that he
might see the land beyond the Jordan, where the twelve tribes were to
find their promised home. Then the Lord gave him a view of the land,
and there he died, as Aaron died on Mount Hor.

No one saw Moses die, and no one knows where he was buried, for the
Lord buried him. He was one hundred and twenty years old, and yet as
strong as a young man. After his death Joshua became the leader of
Israel.

CHAPTER XIV.

A NATION THAT WAS BORN IN A DAY.

The time had come for the people to cross the river Jordan, and enter
their own land, and the Lord told Joshua to prepare the people for
their last journey before going over Jordan. Joshua first sent two men
over the river to see the land.

They went to the walled city of Jericho, and to the house of a woman
named Rahab. The king heard that they were there and sent for them,
but the woman hid them under the flax that she was drying on the roof
of her house. Afterward she let them down by a rope through a window
(for her house was built on the town wall), and they escaped. They
promised Rahab before they went, that if she would hang a long line of
scarlet thread from the window on the wall, that when they came to take
the city she should be saved and all her family because of her kindness
to them.

After they had returned to the camp they told Joshua that the Lord
would surely give them the land, for the people were afraid of them.
Then they rose up and marched to the banks of the Jordan and waited for
Joshua to lead them over. Some of them remembered how they had passed
through the Red Sea, and others had heard it from their parents, and
they