Discovery BoxJoshua 1:7 
Context1:7 Make sure you are 1 very strong and brave! Carefully obey 2 all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep! 3 Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful 4 in all you do. 5
Joshua 7:10
Context7:10 The Lord responded 6 to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying there face down? 7
Joshua 7:13
Context7:13 Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord God of Israel says, “You are contaminated, 8 O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.” 9
Joshua 20:2
Context20:2 “Have the Israelites select 10 the cities of refuge 11 that I told you about through Moses.
Joshua 23:13
Context23:13 know for certain that the Lord our God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. They will trap and ensnare you; 12 they will be a whip that tears 13 your sides and thorns that blind 14 your eyes until you disappear 15 from this good land the Lord your God gave you.
1 tn Or “Only be.”
2 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!”
3 tn Heb “commanded you.”
4 tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.
5 tn Heb “in all which you go.”
6 tn Heb “said.”
7 tn Heb “Why are you falling on your face?”
8 tn Heb “what is set apart [to destruction by the
9 tn Heb “remove what is set apart [i.e., to destruction by the
10 tn Heb “Say to the sons of Israel, ‘Set aside for yourselves.’”
11 tn Or “asylum.”
12 tn Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”
13 tn Heb “in.”
14 tn Heb “thorns in your eyes.”
15 tn Or “perish.”
