13:1 When Joshua was very old, 4 the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.
1 tc The LXX omits the words “or Bethel.”
2 tn Heb “who did not go out after Israel.”
3 tn Heb “people.”
5 tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following clause.
7 tn Heb “from the remnant of the Rephaites.”
8 tn Or “dispossessed them.”
9 tn Heb “with.”
10 tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.
11 tn Or “serve.”
11 tn Heb “and hug.”
12 tn Heb “the remnant of the these nations, these nations that are with you.”
13 tn Heb “and go into them, and they into you.”