¹³ For in the whole world there was want of bread, and a famine had op- pressed the land: more especially of Egypt and Chanaan.

¹⁴ And the Lord said to Moses: Behold the days of thy death are nigh: call Josue, and stand ye in the tabernacle of the testimony, that I may give him a charge. So Moses and Josue went and stood in the tabernacle of the testimony: