¹ tn Or “indeed.”

² tn Heb “people.”

³ tn Heb “all the people.”

⁴ tn Heb “rolled away.”

⁵ sn One might take the disgrace of Egypt as a reference to their uncircumcised condition (see Gen 34:14), but the generation that left Egypt was circumcised (see v. 5). It more likely refers to the disgrace they experienced in Egyptian slavery. When this new generation reached the promised land and renewed their covenantal commitment to the Lord by submitting to the rite of circumcision, the Lord’s deliverance of his people from slavery, which had begun with the plagues and the crossing of the Red Sea, reached its climax. See T. C. Butler, Joshua (WBC), 59.

⁶ sn The name Gilgal sounds like the Hebrew verb “roll away” (גַּלַל, galal).

⁷ tn Traditionally “the Brook of Egypt,” although a number of recent translations have “the Wadi of Egypt” (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).

⁸ tn The translation follows the LXX at this point. The MT reads, “This will be your southern border.”

⁹ tn Heb “I gave to Esau Mount Seir to possess it.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “by that which I did in its midst.”

¹¹ sn Joshua quotes the Lord’s words in vv. 2b-13 (note that the Lord speaks in the first person in these verses); in vv. 14-15 Joshua himself exhorts the people (note the third person references to the Lord).

¹² tn Heb “fear.”

¹³ tn Or “and serve.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “your fathers.”

¹⁵ tn Or “served.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “the river,” referring to the Euphrates. This has been specified in the translation for clarity; see v. 3.

¹⁷ tn Or “and serve.”