Yosua 1:8

1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! ¹  You must memorize it ²  day and night so you can carefully obey ³  all that is written in it. Then you will prosper ⁴  and be successful. ⁵ 

Yosua 22:5

22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love ⁶  the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, ⁷  obey ⁸  his commands, be loyal to him, ⁹  and serve him with all your heart and being!” ¹⁰ 

Yosua 23:4

23:4 See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, ¹¹  from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea ¹²  in the west, including all the nations I defeated. ¹³ 

[1:8]  ¹ tn Heb “mouth.”

[1:8]  sn This law scroll must not leave your lips. The ancient practice of reading aloud to oneself as an aid to memorization is in view here.

[1:8]  ² tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).

[1:8]  ³ tn Heb “be careful to do.”

[1:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”

[1:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[22:5]  ⁶ tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.”

[22:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”

[22:5]  ⁸ tn Or “keep.”

[22:5]  ⁹ tn Heb “hug him.”

[22:5]  ¹⁰ tn Or “soul.”

[23:4]  ¹¹ tn Heb “I have assigned by lots to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes.”

[23:4]  ¹² tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

[23:4]  ¹³ tn Heb “from the Jordan and all the nations which I cut off and the Great Sea [at] the place where the sun sets.” The relationship of the second half of the verse, which mentions nations already conquered, to the first half, which speaks of “remaining nations,” is difficult to understand.