Joshua 1:8
Context1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! 1 You must memorize it 2 day and night so you can carefully obey 3 all that is written in it. Then you will prosper 4 and be successful. 5
Joshua 10:13
Context10:13 The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. 6 The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day. 7
Joshua 10:27-28
Context10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. 8 They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.) 9
10:28 That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. 10


[1:8] 2 tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).
[1:8] 3 tn Heb “be careful to do.”
[1:8] 4 tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”
[1:8] 5 tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.
[10:13] 6 tn Heb “Is it not written down in the Scroll of the Upright One.” Many modern translations render, “the Scroll [or Book] of Jashar,” leaving the Hebrew name “Jashar” (which means “Upright One”) untranslated.
[10:13] 7 tn Heb “and did not hurry to set [for] about a full day.”
[10:27] 11 sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.
[10:27] 12 tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
[10:28] 16 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.