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Gen 12:7:
7 Then Yahweh came to Avram and told him, “I’ll give this land to your descendants.”[ref] So Avram built an altar there and made a burnt offering to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
17:8:
8 I’ll give this land that you’re staying in—the entire region of Kena’an (Canaan)—to you and your descendants as a permanent possession,[ref] and I’ll be their god.”
Gen 26:3:
3 Stay as a guest in this region, and I’ll be with you and bless you, because I’ll give all this land to you and to your descendants, and I’ll confirm the oath that I made to your father Avraham.[ref]
Gen 28:13:
13 And look, Yahweh was standing above it and he said, “I am Yahweh, the god of Avraham your grandfather and the god of Yitshak (Isaac). I will give the land that you are lying on to you and to your descendants[ref]
Gen 20:3-7:
3 But God came to Avimelek in a dream in the night and told him, “Listen, you’re as good as dead because of that woman you took because she is married to a husband.”
4 Now Avimelek hadn’t gone near to her, so he said, “My master, would you destroy a nation even though it’s innocent? 5 Didn’t Avraham himself tell me that she was his sister? And she herself also said that he was her brother. I did this with a clear conscience and with clean hands.”
6 Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience and indeed I kept you from sinning against me. I didn’t allow you to touch her for that reason. 7 So now, return that man’s wife because he’s a prophet, and he’ll pray for you and you’ll live. But if you don’t return her, be certain that you and all your people will surely die.”
Gen 41:53-57:
53 Then the seven years of plenty in Mitsrayim came to an end 54 and the seven years of famine started, just as Yosef had said. The famine covered the entire wider region,[ref] but it was different in Mitsrayim. 55 All the land of Mitsrayim became famished, and the people cried to the king for food, so Par’oh (Pharaoh) said to all the Mitsrim (Egyptians), “Go to Yosef and do whatever he tells you.”[ref] 56 The famine was right across the country, so Yosef opened all the grain stores and sold grain to the Mitsrim. But the famine in Mitsrayim was really severe. 57 Then people from much further away started coming to Mitsrayim to buy grain from Yosef, because the famine was severe in the entire wider region.
Gen 37:28:
28 So when the Midyanite traders came past, the brothers pulled Yosef up and lifted him out of the pit and sold him to the Yishmaelim for twenty pieces of silver. Then the traders took Yosef onwards with them to Mitsrayim.[ref]
45:5:
5 But don’t be upset now or troubled that you sold me here, because it was God who sent me ahead of you so that lives would be saved.
Gen 39:20–40:23:
20 He took him and threw him into the prison built for the king’s prisoners. 21 But Yahweh was with Yosef[ref] and was kind to him and caused the prison warden to be pleased with him, 22 so the warden put him in charge of all the other prisoners and Yosef ended up being in charge of everything that happened inside. 23 Then the warden didn’t need to concern himself with anything that was going on because Yahweh was with Yosef and helped him succeed in everything he did.
40 Sometime after that the Mitsri (Egyptian) king’s cupbearer and baker sinned against their master, also known as Par’oh (Pharaoh). 2 Par’oh was angry at those two officials 3 and he put them in the custody of the chief of the guards—in the prison where Yosef (Joseph) was also being held. 4 There the chief of the guards assigned Yosef to serve them.
After they’d been in custody for quite some time, 5 ⇔the king’s cupbearer and baker in prison each had separate dreams on the same night, and each man’s dream had its own interpretation. 6 The next morning, Yosef came to them, and wow, they were worried, 7 so he asked the two former officials of Par’oh, “Why are you looking so upset today?”
8 “We each had a dream last night,” they answered, “but there’s no one here who can tell us what our dreams mean.”
“God is the only one who gives someone the ability to interpret the meaning of dreams,” Yosef replied. “Please tell me what you dreamed.”
9 Then the chief of the cupbearers went first and told his dream to Yosef, “Listen, in my dream there was a grapevine in front of me 10 with three branches on it. Then as soon as the buds appeared on the branches, its blossoms came out straight away and its clusters ripened into grapes. 11 Then I was holding Par’oh’s cup and I took the grapes and squeezed them into it and I gave the cup to Par’oh.”
12 “This is the interpretation,” Yosef responded. “The three branches represent three days. 13 Within three days, Par’oh will display you publicly and then restore you to your position. Then you’ll place Par’oh’s cup into his hand, just like you used to before when you were his cupbearer. 14 But when it all goes well for you, if you remember me then please be kind and mention me to Par’oh to get me out of this prison, 15 because indeed I was trafficked from the land of the Ivrim (Hebrews). And even here, I didn’t do anything to deserve being held in this pit.”
16 Now when the chief of the bakers saw that this first dream was interpreted so favourably, he told Yosef, “I also was in my dream, and listen, there were three baskets of white bread on my head. 17 In the top basket there were various kinds of food for Par’oh—baker’s goods—but the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.” 18 “This is the interpretation,” Yosef responded. “The three baskets are three days. 19 Within three days, Par’oh will display you publicly and then impale you on a pole, and the birds will eat your flesh off your bones.”
20 Then three days later, it was Par’oh’s birthday and he held a feast for all his officials and he got the chief of the cupbearers and the chief of the bakers brought in to stand publicly in the middle of everyone. 21 Then he restored the chief of the cupbearers to his position, and the man carried the cup across to Par’oh, 22 but he had the chief of the bakers executed, just like Yosef had described in the interpretation of the dream. 23 However, the chief of the cupbearers completely forgot about Yosef.
Gen 41:14:
14 So Par’oh sent for Yosef (Joseph), and they quickly brought him in from the pit. When he’d shaved and changed his clothes, he was brought in to the king
Gen 41:39-41:
39 Then he told Yosef (Joseph), “Since God has shown you all this, there’s no one as discerning and wise as you. 40 You’ll be over my household, and all my people will obey your every word. Only I on the throne will be greater than you.”[ref] 41 Then he added, “See, I’ve put you over all the entire country.”
Gen 46:6:
6 They had also brought along all their livestock and their possessions that they had acquired in Kena’an (Canaan). Then they arrived in Mitsrayim—Ya’akov and all of his descendants with him:[ref]
Gen 47:11:
11 So Yosef gave his father and his brothers some of the best land in Mitsrayim and helped them settle there—in the Ra’meses district just as Par’oh had commanded.
Exo 3:1–4:17:
3 One time Mosheh (Moses) was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Yitro (Jethro) (or Yitro, the priest at Midyan), and he led the flock beyond the wilderness and came to a hill. (This was later known as the mountain of God at Horev). 2 While he was there. Yahweh’s messenger appeared to him in a flame coming from the middle of a bush, and as Mosheh looked, to his surprise he saw that the bush was burning in the fire yet not actually being burnt up.[ref] 3 “I’ve got to go and see this amazing sight,” Mosheh said to himself. “How come that bush isn’t burning up?”
4 When Yahweh saw that he’d left his path in order to look, God called to him from the middle of the bush, “Mosheh, Mosheh.”
5 “Don’t come any closer,” Yahweh said. “Take off your sandals because the place where you’re standing is HOLY ground. 6 I’m the god of your father and the god of Avraham, Yitshak (Isaac), and Ya’akov (Jacob).” So Mosheh covered hid his face because he was scared to look at God.
7 “I’ve certainly noticed the suffering of my people in Mitsrayim (Egypt),” Yahweh continued, “I’ve heard their cries as the slave drivers oppress them—I’m unmistakingly aware of their pain. 8 So I’ve come down to set them free from Mitsri (Egyptian) control and to bring them up from there to a good and wide land—a land that’s very fertile. It’s currently the place of the Kena’anim (Canaanites), the Hitim, the Amorim, the Perizim, the Hivim, and the Yevusim. 9 Yes, the cry of the Israelis has now reached me and what’s more, I’ve seen how much the Mitsrim (Egyptians) are oppressing them. 10 So go now and I’ll send you to Par’oh (Pharaoh) and bring my people—Yisrael’s (Israel’s) descendants—out from Mitsrayim.”
11 “Who am I, that I should go to Par’oh,” Mosheh asked God, “and that I should be the one to bring out the Israelis out from Mitsrayim?”
12 “I’ll certainly be with you,” God replied, “and this will be your sign so that you’ll know that I have sent you: when you bring the people out from Mitsrayim, you all will serve God on this very hill.”
13 “But listen,” Mosheh told God, “If I’m about to go to the Israelis and if I told them, ‘Your ancestors’ god has sent me to you.’ then they’d ask me, ‘Oh yeah, what’s his name?’ then what would I tell them?”[ref]
14 “I AM WHO I AM,” God told Mosheh. “You’ll tell them this: ‘I AM (Yahweh) sent me to you.’ ”[ref] 15 Then he continued, “This is what you need to tell the Israelis: ‘Yahweh, the god of your ancestors, the god of Avraham, Yitshak (Isaac), and Ya’akov (Jacob), sent me to you. This is my name forever, and this is my memorial throughout the generations.’ 16 Go and gather the Israeli elders, and tell them, ‘Yahweh, the god of your ancestors, appeared to me, the god of Avraham, Yitshak, and Ya’akov, to say, “I’ve certainly noticed you all and how you’re all being treated in Mitsrayim, 17 and I’ve promised to take you all from your mistreatment in Mitsrayim, away to the land where the Kena’anim (Canaanites), Hitim, Amorim, Perizim, Hivim, and the Yevusim are currently living—to a land that’s very fertile.” ’
18 Then the people will listen to what you tell them, and you and the Israeli elders will go to the Mitsri (Egyptian) king and you’ll all tell him, ‘Yahweh, the god of the Ivrim (Hebrews), has met with us. So now, please let us go three days’ journey into the wilderness, so we can sacrifice to Yahweh, our god.’ 19 But I know that the Mitsri king won’t let you go until he’s forced to. 20 So I will use force and I’ll strike Mitsrayim with several supernatural acts, and after those, he’ll let you all go.
21 Then I’ll make the Mitsri people favour you all in such a way that when you go, you won’t leave empty-handed.[ref] 22 For example, an Israeli woman will ask her Mitsri neighbour (or from someone staying where she lives) for gold and silver items and for clothing. Then you’ll put them on your sons and daughters, and in this way you’ll all plunder the Mitsrim (Egyptians).”
4 “But listen,” Mosheh (Moses) responded, “they won’t believe me and won’t listen to what I say, because they’ll say, ‘Yahweh never showed himself to you.’ ” 2 “Well, what’s that in your hand?” Yahweh asked.
“My shepherd’s staff,” he said. 3 “Throw it on the ground,” Yahweh said. So Mosheh he threw it onto the ground and it became a snake, and he quickly moved back away from it. 4 “Pick it up by its tail.” Yahweh told him. So Mosheh picked it up by the tail and it became a staff in his hand again. 5 “That’s so that they’ll believe that I appeared to you: Yahweh—the god of their ancestors—the god of Avraham, Yitshak (Isaac), and Ya’akov (Jacob).”
6 “Now put your hand on your chest—inside your robe.” Yahweh added. So Mosheh did that, and when he pulled it out again, his hand had gone totally white with disease. 7 Then Yahweh said, “Now, put your hand back in again.” So Mosheh did it again, and when he pulled it out, wow, it had returned to normal. 8 “So, if they don’t believe you, and if the first miracle doesn’t convince them, then they’ll believe that second miracle. 9 And then, even if they don’t believe those two miracles and won’t believe what you tell them, then you should take some water from the river and pour it onto the dry land. Then the water which came from the river will turn into blood there on the dry land.”
10 “Oh my master,” Mosheh responded, “I’m not very good at speaking to others—I never have been and still aren’t. I seem to get tongue-tied easily.”
11 “Who was it that made people’s mouths?” Yahweh said. “Who makes someone mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Isn’t it me, Yahweh? 12 So get going now, and I’ll look after your mouth and show you what you to say.”
13 But Mosheh replied, “Oh master, please send someone else.”
14 Then Yahweh got angry with Mosheh and told him, “Isn’t Aharon (Aaron) a fellow Levite and your brother? I know that he can speak well, and what’s more, he’ll come from Mitsrayim (Egypt) to meet you, and when he does, he’ll be very happy. 15 He’ll become your speaker and you’ll be able to talk to him and tell him what to say. I’ll be helping both of you speak and I’ll teach you both what you should do. 16 So in that way, he’ll be like a mouth for you and speak to the people for you, and you’ll be like God to him. 17 In addition, you’ll have that staff with you in order to do those miracles.”
Exo 10:21-23:
10:21 Plague 9: Darkness
21 Then Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), “Raise your hand up toward the sky and let it become dark over all Mitsrayim (Egypt)—darkness that can be felt.” 22 So Mosheh stretched his hand out towards the sky, and a thick darkness was in all Mitsrayim for three days.[ref] 23 No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one was able to go anywhere, yet there was light in the region where the Israelis lived.
Exo 7:17-21:
17 so Yahweh says, “Now you will know that I am Yahweh because of this: See, I’m about to use my staff to strike the water in the Nile and it will turn to blood[ref] 18 and the fish in the river will die and the river will stink. Then your people will gag to drink the water from the river.” ’
19 “Tell Aharon (Aaron) to take his staff and stretch out his hand over the waters of Mitsrayim (Egypt): over their streams, their canals, and their pools, and over every reservoir of their water, and the water will become blood. Then there’ll be blood in the entire country—even in wooden or stone containers of water.”
20 So And Mosheh and Aharon did exactly what Yahweh had commanded: Aharon raised the staff and struck the river, while Par’oh and his servants watched, and the entire river turned to blood. 21 Then the fish in the river died and the river stank, so the Mitsrim (Egyptians) couldn’t drink water from the river, and the blood was all over Mitsrayim.
Exo 8:1-6:
8 and he said to Mosheh (Moses), “Go to Par’oh (Pharaoh) and tell him, ‘Yahweh says that you must let my people go so they can serve me.[fn] 2 But if you refuse to let them go, then look, I’m about to pound your entire territory with frogs. 3 The frogs will swarm in the river, then they’ll climb out and go into your house and in your bedroom and onto your bed. They’ll go into your servants’ houses and among your people, and in your cooking bowls and into your ovens. 4 They’ll climb on you and on your people and on all your servants.’ ”
5 Then Yahweh said to Mosheh, “Tell Aharon (Aaron): Hold your staff out over the canals, the streams, and the pools, and cause the frogs to come up onto the land of Mitsrayim (Egypt).” 6 So Aharon reached out his hand over the Mitsri (Egyptian) water supplies and frogs came up and covered the land of Mitsrayim.
8:1 This is 7:26 in some versifications (and the following three verses are 7:27, 28, & 29).
Exo 8:20-24:
8:20 Plague 4: The swarm
20 Then Yahweh said to Mosheh (Moses), “Get up early in the morning and when you see Par’oh (Pharaoh) coming down to the river, station yourself in front of him and tell him, ‘Yahweh saw that you must let my people go so they can serve me. 21 Certainly if you don’t release my people immediately, then take note: I’m about to send the swarm[fn] at you and your servants and at your people and into your houses. The Mitsrim’ (Egyptians’) houses will be full of the swarm and even the ground that they’re on. 22 But when it happens, I’ll distinguish the Goshen region where my people live so the swarm won’t be there, so that you’ll be able to see that I’m Yahweh and I’m right here in this land. 23 This sign will happen tomorrow and you’ll see how I plan to set my people free from your people.’ ” 24 So Yahweh did what he’d said and a heavy swarm came to Par’oh’s house and the houses of his servants and all the Mitsrim—the country was ruined by the arrival of the swarm.
8:21 The Hebrew word ‘עָרֹב’ (ˊārov) probably meaning ‘mixture’ is sometimes translated as ‘swarm’. This plague could have been anything from flies to other insects (hornets or mosquitoes???) all the way to a mixture of wild animals.
Exo 8:16-17:
8:16 Plague 3: Lice
16 Then Yahweh said to Mosheh (Moses), “Tell Aharon (Aaron): Stretch out your staff and strike the dust on the ground, and it will turn into lice[fn] all over Mitsrayim (Egypt).” 17 So Aharon held out his staff and struck the dust with it, and the dust became lice on the people and on the animals. All over Mitsrayim, the dust turned into lice
8:16 The Hebrew word ‘כֵּן/כִּנִּם’ (kēn/kinnim) could refer to either lice, gnats, or fleas. However, unlike lice, gnats don’t usually reside on people and animals (which seems to be implied by the text).
Exo 9:22-25:
22 “Raise your arm up toward the sky,” Yahweh told Mosheh (Moses), “and hail will strike all over Mitsrayim—on the people and animals and on every plant in the Mitsri (Egyptian) countryside.” 23 So Mosheh lifted his staff to the sky, and Yahweh sent thunder and hail, and lightning caused fires on the land, and so Yahweh rained hail down onto Mitsrayim. 24 There was hail, and also fire coming down in the middle of the hail.[ref] It was very heavy, such as had never been in all of Mitsrayim since it became a nation. 25 The hail struck everything in Mitsrayim—everything that was in the countryside, from people to animals. It also struck every plant and broke every tree out in the countryside.
Exo 10:12-15:
12 Then Yahweh told Mosheh, “Extend your hand over Mitsrayim and let the locusts rise up over the land, and let them devour all the plants—everything which the hail had spared.” 13 So Mosheh stretched his staff out over Mitsrayim, and Yahweh sent an east wind over the land all that day and all night. Then morning came, and the east wind had brought the locusts. 14 The locusts covered across all the land of Mitsrayim and came to rest everywhere within the country’s borders. They were extremely numerous—never before were there so many locusts, and it’ll never be repeated again.[ref] 15 The cloud of locusts blocked the sun and prevented people from being able to see very far. They devoured all the plants on the land and all of the fruit on the trees that the hail had left, and no piece of greenery remained on any tree or plant in the entire Mitsri (Egyptian) countryside.
Exo 12:29:
29 Then, in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all the oldest males in Mitsrayim (Egypt), from the oldest son of Par’oh (Pharaoh) who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon and all oldest male offspring of the animals.[ref]
Exo 12:33-36:
33 The Mitsrim urged the Israelis, hurrying to let them go from the land because they said, “We’re all dying.”
34 So the people carried their bread dough before it could rise. Their bread-making bowls were wrapped in their clothes on their shoulders.
35 The Israelis did everything that Mosheh had instructed them, including asking for items of gold and silver, and clothing from the Mitsrim.[ref] 36 Yahweh gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrim, so by their requests, they were able to strip the Mitsrim of their wealth.
Exo 13:21-22:
21 During the day, Yahweh went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to lead them on the way, and at nighttime, he went in a pillar of fire to be light to them, so they could travel both in the daytime and at night. 22 The daytime pillar of cloud and the nighttime pillar of fire, didn’t ever leave their place ahead of the people.
Exo 16:2-15:
2 and all the Israelis murmured against Mosheh (Moses) and Aharon (Aaron) there in the wilderness, 3 saying, “If only Yahweh had killed us in Mitsrayim, where we’d be sitting by a pot of meat eating bread until we’re full, because you’ve brought us out into this wilderness to starve us all to death.”
4 Then Yahweh told Mosheh, “Just watch me make food rain down from the sky for you all.[ref] Then the people will be able to go out every day and gather enough for that day so that I can test them: Will they obey my law or not? 5 But every Friday they can gather and prepare twice as much as what they gather on the other days.”
6 So Mosheh and Aharon told all the Israelis, “This evening you’ll all know that Yahweh was the one who brought you out from Mitsrayim. 7 In the morning you’ll all see Yahweh’s greatness as he’s heard your murmurings against him. I mean, who are we that you’d murmur against us?” 8 Then Mosheh continued, “So Yahweh will give you all meat to eat in the evening and enough bread in the morning to make you all full. Yes, Yahweh has heard your murmurings against him. As for us, we’re insignificant. Your murmuring isn’t against us, but against Yahweh.”
9 Then Mosheh told Aharon, “Summon everyone to come and face Yahweh, because he’s heard their murmurings.” 10 And so while Aharon spoke to all the Israelis, they turned toward the wilderness, and wow, Yahweh’s dazzling brightness appeared in the cloud! 11 Then Yahweh told Mosheh, 12 “I’ve heard the murmurings of the Israelis. Speak to them saying, ‘In the evenings, you’ll all eat meat, and in the mornings you’ll all be satisfied with bread. Then you’ll all know that I’m your god, Yahweh.’ ”
13 And so that evening, quail appeared and covered the camp. And in the morning, something like dew was lying all around the camp, 14 and when it evaporated, wow, it left behind thin flakes—thin like frost on the ground there in the wilderness. 15 When the Israelis saw it, they asked each other, ‘What is it?’ because they didn’t know what it was.
And Mosheh told them, “It’s the food that Yahweh has given you all to eat.[ref]
Exo 17:1-7:
17 Then all the Israelis moved on from Sin in the wilderness, travelling following Yahweh’s instructions. They camped at Refidim but there was no water for the people to drink.[ref] 2 So the people argued with Mosheh (Moses) again, saying, “Give us water to drink!”
“Why are you all quarrelling with me?” Mosheh answered. “Why are you all testing Yahweh?”
3 But the people were very thirsty there and they murmured against Mosheh, so he demanded, “Is this why you brought us out of Mitsrayim (Egypt)? To kill me and my sons and my cattle with thirst?” ???
4 Mosheh cried out to Yahweh, asking, “What should I do for these people? It won’t take much more and they’ll kill me.”
5 “Walk on ahead of the people,” Yahweh told Mosheh, “and take some of the Israeli elders with you, and your staff—the one which you struck the river with. Take it in your hand and go. 6 Watch me. I will stand in front of you there on the rock at Horev. Then you will strike the rock and water will come out of it, and the people will drink.” So Mosheh did that while the Israeli elders watched.
7 Mosheh named that place both ‘Masah’ (which means ‘testing’) and ‘Merivah’ (which means ‘complaining’), because of the conflict among the Israelis and because of how they tested Yahweh by saying, ‘Is Yahweh among us or not?’
Num 20:2-13:
2 However, there was no water to drink, so the people came against Mosheh (Moses) and Aharon (Aaron)[ref] 3 and complained, “It would have been better if we’d died in front of Yahweh along with our relatives back there. 4 Why did you two bring Yahweh’s people here to die in this wilderness, along with our livestock? 5 Why did you bring us out of Mitsrayim (Egypt) to bring us to this miserable place? There’s no grain or figs, and no grapes or pomegranates. There’s not even water to drink!” 6 Then Mosheh and Aharon went from there in front of the people to the entrance to the sacred tent, where they fell to their knees with their faces to the ground, and Yahweh’s brilliance appeared to them.
7 Then Yahweh told Mosheh, 8 “Take Aharon’s staff, then the two of you must command that rock to pour out water. Then water will come out of it, and both the people and the animals will have plenty to drink.”
9 So Mosheh took the staff from Yahweh’s residence like he was told to. 10 Then the two of them gathered the people in front of the rock and told them, “Listen now you bunch of rebels—do we have to bring water out of this rock for you?” 11 Then Mosheh raised the staff and hit the rock twice, and water gushed out, and so the people and their animals were able to drink.
12 Then Yahweh scolded Mosheh and Aharon, “Because you two publicly demonstrated that you didn’t believe that what I say is absolute truth, therefore you two won’t lead this community into the land that I’ve given them.”
13 That spring was named ‘Merivah’ (meaning ‘Quarrelling’) because that was where the Israelis argued with Yahweh, and where he demonstrated his absolute truthfulness to them.
Josh 11:16-23:
16 Yehoshua (Joshua) conquered the whole region—the hill country and all the Negev, all of the Goshen region, the lowlands and the rift valley plains, the hill country of Yisrael (Israel) and its lowlands 17 from Mt. Halak downhill towards Se’ir, and as far as Ba’al-Gad in the Levanon valley below Mt. Hermon. He attacked and captured all their kings and executed them. 18 Yehoshua had spent quite some time battling with those kings. 19 No city made peace with the Israelis except for the Hivim who lived in Giveon—all the rest were taken in battle 20 because it was Yahweh who’d made them stubborn so they’d fight against Yisrael and be completely destroyed without any mercy. Yes, they were annihilated just as Yahweh had instructed Mosheh (Moses).[ref]
21 At that time, Yehoshua also went and exterminated the Anakim from the hill country, from Hevron, Devir, Anav, and all the hill country of Yehudah (Judah) and Yisrael. He completely destroyed them from their cities. 22 No descendants of Anak were left in Yisrael, except that some remained in Azah (Gaza), in Gat, and in Ashdod.
23 Yehoshua captured the entire region, just as Yahweh had told Mosheh, and Yehoshua gave it as an inheritance to Yisrael, divided into portions according to their tribes, and then the region was peaceful.
Gen 12:7:
7 Then Yahweh came to Avram and told him, “I’ll give this land to your descendants.”[ref] So Avram built an altar there and made a burnt offering to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.
