Joshua 5:1

5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they ¹  crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites. ² 

Joshua 5:6

5:6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off. ³  For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, ⁴  a land rich in ⁵  milk and honey.

[5:1]  ¹ tc Another textual tradition has, “while we crossed.”

[5:1]  ² tn Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”

[5:6]  ³ tn Heb “all the nation, the men of war who went out from Egypt, who did not listen to the voice of the Lord, came to an end.”

[5:6]  ⁴ tn Some Hebrew mss, as well as the Syriac version, support this reading. Most ancient witnesses read “us.”

[5:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “flowing with.”