Joshua 1:3

1:3 I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses. ¹ 

Joshua 5:9

5:9 The Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have taken away ²  the disgrace ³  of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal ⁴  even to this day.

Joshua 8:19

8:19 When he held out his hand, the men waiting in ambush rose up quickly from their place and attacked. ⁵  They entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

Joshua 9:27

9:27 and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.) ⁶ 

Joshua 3:3

3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God ⁷  being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here ⁸  and walk ⁹  behind it.

Joshua 4:18

4:18 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land, ¹⁰  the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage. ¹¹ 

Joshua 5:15

5:15 The commander of the Lord’s army answered Joshua, “Remove your sandals from your feet, because the place where you stand is holy.” Joshua did so.

Joshua 7:26

7:26 Then they erected over him a large pile of stones (it remains to this very day ¹² ) and the Lord’s anger subsided. So that place is called the Valley of Disaster to this very day.

Joshua 20:4

20:4 The one who committed manslaughter ¹³  should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city. ¹⁴  They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there. ¹⁵ 

¹ tn Heb “Every place on which the sole of your foot walks, to you I have given it, as I said to Moses.” The second person pronouns in vv. 3-4 are plural, indicating that all the people are addressed here. The verbal form נְתַתִּיו (nÿtattiv, “I have given it”) is probably a perfect of certitude, emphasizing the certainty of the action. Another option is to translate, “I have already assigned it.” In this case the verb would probably refer to the Lord’s decree to Abraham that he would give this land to his descendants.

² tn Heb “rolled away.”

³ sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.

⁴ sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).

³ tn Heb “and ran.”

⁴ tn Heb “and Joshua made them in that day woodcutters and water carriers for the community, and for the altar of the Lord to this day at the place which he chooses.”

⁵ sn The ark of the covenant refers to the wooden chest that symbolized God’s presence among his covenant people.

⁶ tn Heb “set out from your place.”

⁷ tn Or “march.”

⁶ tn Heb “and the soles of the feet of the priests were brought up to the dry land.”

⁷ tn Heb “and the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went as formerly over their banks.”

⁷ tc Heb “to this day.” The phrase “to this day” is omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition.

⁸ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the one who accidentally kills another, cf. v. 2) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁹ tn Heb “and speak into the ears of the elders of that city his words.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “and they should gather him into the city to themselves, give to him a place, and he will live with them.”