¹ <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations.

¹⁶ For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.

³ Be my strong Rock, the strong place of my salvation; for you are my Rock, and my safe place.

²⁷ The God of your fathers is your safe resting-place, and under you are his eternal arms: driving out the forces of your haters from before you, he said, Let destruction overtake them.

¹⁶ And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

¹ Now this is the blessing which Moses, the man of God, gave to the children of Israel before his death.

¹ And the Lord said to Moses,

² Send men to get knowledge about the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from every tribe of their fathers you are to send a man, every one a chief among them.

³ And Moses sent them from the waste land of Paran as the Lord gave orders, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.

⁴ And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.

⁵ Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.

⁶ Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb, the son of Jephunneh.

⁷ Of the tribe of Issachar, Igal, the son of Joseph.

⁸ Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea, the son of Nun.

⁹ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Palti, the son of Raphu.

¹⁰ Of the tribe of Zebulun, Gaddiel, the son of Sodi.

¹¹ Of the tribe of Joseph, that is of the family of Manasseh, Gaddi, the son of Susi.

¹² Of the tribe of Dan, Ammiel, the son of Gemalli.

¹³ Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael

¹⁴ Of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi, the son of Vophsi.

¹¹ But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.

⁵⁶ He who takes my flesh for food and my blood for drink is in me and I in him.

¹⁴ And he will be for a holy place: but for a stone of falling and a rock of trouble to the two houses of Israel, and to the men of Jerusalem, for a net in which they may be taken.

⁹ Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

¹ <Maschil. Of Ethan the Ezrahite.> My song will be of the mercies of the Lord for ever: with my mouth will I make his faith clear to all generations.

¹ Then a man of God came from Judah by the order of the Lord to Beth-el, where Jeroboam was by the altar, burning offerings.

¹⁴ And he said, I myself will go with you and give you rest.

¹⁵ And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here.

¹⁶ For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?

¹⁷ And the Lord said to Moses, I will do as you say: for you have grace in my eyes, and I have knowledge of you by your name.

¹⁸ And Moses said, O Lord, let me see your glory.

¹⁹ And he said, I will make all the light of my being come before you, and will make clear to you what I am; I will be kind to those to whom I will be kind, and have mercy on those on whom I will have mercy.