Joshua 1:8
1:8 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 22:5
22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love 6 the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, 7 obey 8 his commands, be loyal to him, 9 and serve him with all your heart and being!” 10
Joshua 23:6
23:6 Be very strong! Carefully obey 11 all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,
1 tn Heb “mouth.”
sn This law scroll must not leave your lips. The ancient practice of reading aloud to oneself as an aid to memorization is in view here.
2 tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).
3 tn Heb “be careful to do.”
4 tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”
5 tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.
6 tn Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.”
7 tn Heb “walk in all his paths.”
8 tn Or “keep.”
9 tn Heb “hug him.”
10 tn Or “soul.”
11 tn Heb “Be strong so you can be careful to do.”