Deuteronomy 1:38

1:38 However, Joshua son of Nun, your assistant, ¹  will go. Encourage him, because he will enable Israel to inherit the land. ² 

Deuteronomy 3:28

3:28 Commission ³  Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, because he will lead these people over and will enable them to inherit the land you will see.”

Deuteronomy 12:23

12:23 However, by no means eat the blood, for the blood is life itself ⁴  – you must not eat the life with the meat!

Deuteronomy 22:25

22:25 But if the man came across ⁵  the engaged woman in the field and overpowered her and raped ⁶  her, then only the rapist ⁷  must die.

Deuteronomy 25:11

25:11 If two men ⁸  get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals, ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 31:6

31:6 Be strong and courageous! Do not fear or tremble before them, for the Lord your God is the one who is going with you. He will not fail you or abandon you!”

Deuteronomy 11:8

The Abundance of the Land of Promise

11:8 Now pay attention to all the commandments ¹⁰  I am giving ¹¹  you today, so that you may be strong enough to enter and possess the land where you are headed, ¹² 

Deuteronomy 31:7

31:7 Then Moses called out to Joshua ¹³  in the presence of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will accompany these people to the land that the Lord promised to give their ancestors, ¹⁴  and you will enable them to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 31:23

31:23 and the Lord ¹⁵  commissioned Joshua son of Nun, “Be strong and courageous, for you will take the Israelites to the land I have promised them, and I will be with you.” ¹⁶ 

[1:38]  ¹ tn Heb “the one who stands before you”; NAB “your aide”; TEV “your helper.”

[1:38]  ² tn Heb “it”; the referent (the land) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[3:28]  ³ tn Heb “command”; KJV, NASB, NRSV “charge Joshua.”

[12:23]  ⁵ sn The blood is life itself. This is a figure of speech (metonymy) in which the cause or means (the blood) stands for the result or effect (life). That is, life depends upon the existence and circulation of blood, a truth known empirically but not scientifically tested and proved until the 17th century a.d. (cf. Lev 17:11).

[22:25]  ⁷ tn Heb “found,” also in vv. 27, 28.

[22:25]  ⁸ tn Heb “lay with” here refers to a forced sexual relationship, as the accompanying verb “seized” (חָזַק, khazaq) makes clear.

[22:25]  ⁹ tn Heb “the man who lay with her, only him.”

[25:11]  ⁹ tn Heb “a man and his brother.”

[25:11]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “shameful parts.” Besides the inherent indelicacy of what she has done, the woman has also threatened the progenitive capacity of the injured man. The level of specificity given this term in modern translations varies: “private parts” (NAB, NIV, CEV); “genitals” (NASB, NRSV, TEV); “sex organs” (NCV); “testicles” (NLT).

[11:8]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the commandment.” The singular מִצְוָה (mitsvah, “commandment”) speaks here as elsewhere of the whole corpus of covenant stipulations in Deuteronomy (cf. 6:1, 25; 7:11; 8:1).

[11:8]  ¹² tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB, NRSV). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in vv. 13, 27).

[11:8]  ¹³ tn Heb “which you are crossing over there to possess it.”

[31:7]  ¹³ tn The Hebrew text includes “and said to him.” This has not been included in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[31:7]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 20).

[31:23]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “he.” Since the pronoun could be taken to refer to Moses, the referent has been specified as “the Lord” in the translation for clarity. See also the note on the word “you” later in this verse.

[31:23]  ¹⁶ tc The LXX reads, “as the Lord promised them, and he will be with you.” This relieves the problem of Moses apparently promising to be with Joshua as the MT reads on the surface (“I will be with you”). However, the reading of the LXX is clearly an attempt to clarify an existing obscurity and therefore is unlikely to reflect the original.