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Book I — De Iosue: Caput IX — On the election, and the inauguration, of Joshua as ruler and prince of the people

Caput IX (opening)

In the fortieth year of the Egyptian exodus, in the ninth month — or rather the tenth, for in the tenth Moses died — in the plains of Moab next to the Jordan, at the last encampment of the Israelites, which stretched from Bethsimoth as far as Abelsatim (Num. 33, v. 49), [Moses] prayed…

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Nicolaus Serarius, S.J., “Caput IX (opening),” in Commentary on Joshua, Volume I, English translation, Mind of the Church, https://mindofthechurch.com/works/serarius-joshua-1/120-caput-ix-opening/.

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