¹ tn Heb “And when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”

² tn Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”) is used here in an adverbial sense to indicate the repetition of an action.

³ tn Heb “and the report about him was in all the land.” The Hebrew term אֶרֶץ (’erets, “land”) may also be translated “earth.”

⁴ tn Heb “said.”

⁵ tn Heb “Why are you falling on your face?”

⁶ tn Heb “Just as the Lord had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel did, and they divided up the land.”

⁷ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

⁸ sn The western tribes here imagine a possible motive for the action of the eastern tribes. T. C. Butler explains the significance of the land’s “impurity”: “East Jordan is impure because it is not Yahweh’s possession. Rather it is simply ‘your possession.’ That means it is land where Yahweh does not live, land which his presence has not sanctified and purified” (Joshua [WBC], 247).

⁹ tn Heb “the land of the possession of the Lord.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “where the dwelling place of the Lord resides.”

sn The phrase where the Lord himself lives refers to the tabernacle.

¹¹ tn Heb “and take for yourselves in our midst.”

¹² tc Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנוּ, vÿ’otanu), is problematic with the verb “rebel” (מָרַד, marad). Many Hebrew mss correctly read the negative particle אַל (’al) for the preposition אֶל (’el, “to”).

¹³ tn The translation assumes that כִּי (ki) is emphatic. Another option is to take it as explanatory, “No, for we will….”

¹⁴ tn Or “will serve.”

¹⁵ tn Or “will serve.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and listen to his voice.”