Quotes About Legacy

and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,

but also with those who are standing here with us today in the presence of the LORD our God, as well as with those who are not here today.

And the people will answer, ëIt is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.

I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore choose life, so that you and your descendants may live,

When Moses had finished speaking these words to all Israel,

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

And there on the mountain that you climb, you will die and be gathered to your people, just as your brother Aaron died on Mount Hor and was gathered to his people.

This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

Let Reuben live and not die, nor his men be few.”

And the LORD said to him, “This is the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob when I said, ëI will give it to your descendants.í I have let you see it with your own eyes, but you will not cross into it.”

So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, as the LORD had said.

And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows the location of his grave.

Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak, and his vitality had not diminished.

The Israelites grieved for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days, until the time of weeping and mourning for Moses came to an end.

Since that time, no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face—

and no prophet who performed all the mighty acts of power and awesome deeds that Moses did in the sight of all Israel.

Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Mosesí assistant, saying,

Be strong and courageous, for you shall give these people the inheritance of the land that I swore to their fathers I would give them.

On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.

And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.