Joshua 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 

Joshua 7:13

7:13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord God of Israel says, “You are contaminated, ²  O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.” ³ 

Joshua 9:24

9:24 They said to Joshua, “It was carefully reported to your subjects ⁴  how the Lord your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified ⁵  we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

Joshua 22:4-5

22:4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, ⁶  just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes ⁷  in your own land ⁸  which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan. 22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love ⁹  the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, ¹⁰  obey ¹¹  his commands, be loyal to him, ¹²  and serve him with all your heart and being!” ¹³ 

Joshua 22:19

22:19 But if your own land ¹⁴  is impure, ¹⁵  cross over to the Lord’s own land, ¹⁶  where the Lord himself lives, ¹⁷  and settle down among us. ¹⁸  But don’t rebel against the Lord or us ¹⁹  by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

Joshua 24:17

24:17 For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery ²⁰  in the land of Egypt ²¹  and performed these awesome miracles ²²  before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. ²³ 

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.”

² tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the Lord] [is] in your midst.”

³ tn Heb “remove what is set apart [i.e., to destruction by the Lord] from your midst.”

³ tn Heb “your servants.”

⁴ tn Or “we were very afraid.”

⁴ tn Heb “has given rest to your brothers.”

⁵ tn Heb “tents.”

⁶ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

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

⁶ tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”

⁷ tn Or “keep.”

⁸ tn Heb “hug him.”

⁹ tn Or “soul.”

⁶ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

⁷ sn The western tribes here imagine a possible motive for the action of the eastern tribes. T. C. Butler explains the significance of the land’s “impurity”: “East Jordan is impure because it is not Yahweh’s possession. Rather it is simply ‘your possession.’ That means it is land where Yahweh does not live, land which his presence has not sanctified and purified” (Joshua [WBC], 247).

⁸ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

⁹ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

¹¹ tc Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנוּ, vÿ’otanu), is problematic with the verb “rebel” (מָרַד, marad). Many Hebrew mss correctly read the negative particle אַל (’al) for the preposition אֶל (’el, “to”).

⁷ tn Heb “of the house of slavery.”

⁸ tn Heb “for the Lord our God, he is the one who brought up us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of slaves.”

⁹ tn Or “great signs.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and he guarded us in all the way in which we walked and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.”