Yosua 22:1-3

Joshua Sends Home the Eastern Tribes

22:1 Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh 22:2 and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you. ¹  22:3 You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites ²  this entire time, ³  right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God. ⁴ 

[22:2]  ¹ tn Heb “You have kept all which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, and you have listened to my voice, to all which I commanded you.”

[22:3]  ² tn Heb “your brothers” (also in vv. 4, 7), but this does not refer to siblings or necessarily even to relatives. It refers to the Israelites of the remaining tribes.

[22:3]  ³ tn Heb “these many days.”

[22:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “you have kept the charge of the command of the Lord your God.”