Joshua 4:9

4:9 Joshua also set up twelve stones ¹  in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

Joshua 10:27

10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. ²  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.) ³ 

Joshua 20:6

20:6 He must remain ⁴  in that city until his case is decided by the assembly ⁵  and the high priest dies. ⁶  Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.” ⁷ 

Joshua 23:7

23:7 or associate with these nations that remain near ⁸  you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! ⁹  You must not worship ¹⁰  or bow down to them!

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¹ tn Here “also” has been supplied in the translation to make it clear (as indicated by v. 20) that these are not the same stones the men took from the river bed.

² sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.

³ tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁴ tn Or “live.”

⁵ tn Heb “until he stands before the assembly for judgment.”

⁶ tn Heb “until the death of the high priest who is in those days.”

⁷ tn Heb “may return and enter his city and his house, the city from which he escaped.”

⁸ tn Heb “with.”

⁹ tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.

¹⁰ tn Or “serve.”