Yosua 1:15

1:15 until the Lord gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the Lord’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.” ¹ 

Yosua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ²  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ³ 

Yosua 5:6

5:6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off. ⁴  For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, ⁵  a land rich in ⁶  milk and honey.

Yosua 20:6

20:6 He must remain ⁷  in that city until his case is decided by the assembly ⁸  and the high priest dies. ⁹  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.” ¹⁰ 

[1:15]  ¹ tn Heb “Then you may return to the land of your possession and possess it, that which Moses, the Lord’s servant, gave to you beyond the Jordan toward the rising of the sun.”

[5:1]  ² tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ³ tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

[5:6]  ⁴ tn Heb “all the nation, the men of war who went out from Egypt, who did not listen to the voice of the Lord, came to an end.”

[5:6]  ⁵ tn Some Hebrew mss, as well as the Syriac version, support this reading. Most ancient witnesses read “us.”

[5:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “flowing with.”

[5:6]  sn The word picture a land rich in milk and honey depicts the land as containing many grazing areas (which would produce milk) and flowering plants (which would support the bees that produced honey).

[20:6]  ⁷ tn Or “live.”

[20:6]  ⁸ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly for judgment.”

[20:6]  ⁹ tn Heb “until the death of the high priest who is in those days.”

[20:6]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”