Joshua 4:16

4:16 “Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws ¹  to come up from the Jordan.”

Joshua 24:25

24:25 That day Joshua drew up an agreement ²  for the people, and he established rules and regulations ³  for them in Shechem.

Joshua 1:7

1:7 Make sure you are ⁴  very strong and brave! Carefully obey ⁵  all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! ⁶  Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful ⁷  in all you do. ⁸ 

Joshua 22:5

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 23:16

23:16 If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, ¹⁴  and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, ¹⁵  the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear ¹⁶  quickly from the good land which he gave to you.”

[4:16]  ¹ tn Traditionally, “the ark of the testimony,” another name for the ark of the covenant. The Hebrew term עֵדוּת (’edut, “testimony” or “witness”) here refers to the Mosaic covenant and the body of stipulations contained within it (see HALOT 2:791).

[24:25]  ² tn Heb “cut a covenant.”

[24:25]  ³ tn Heb “a statute and a judgment.”

[1:7]  ³ tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “so you can be careful to do.” The use of the infinitive לִשְׁמֹר (lishmor, “to keep”) after the imperatives suggests that strength and bravery will be necessary for obedience. Another option is to take the form לִשְׁמֹר as a vocative lamed (ל) with imperative (see Isa 38:20 for an example of this construction), which could be translated, “Indeed, be careful!”

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[22:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.”

[22:5]  ⁵ tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”

[22:5]  ⁶ tn Or “keep.”

[22:5]  ⁷ tn Heb “hug him.”

[22:5]  ⁸ tn Or “soul.”

[23:16]  ⁵ tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

[23:16]  ⁶ tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

[23:16]  ⁷ tn Or “perish.”