Joshua 1 · Kingdoms of Scripture

1After the death of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ attendant, saying,

Notes (3)

Process
No published English Bible, commentary, or study note was open while Joshua was drafted. The wording source was the ancient-language witnesses named in the notes. A lexicon or grammar may be used for a source word. Greek, Syriac, and Latin, when they appear, witness the source wording. They are not models for the English.
Text
The continuous copy is the Leningrad Codex, read in the Open Scriptures diplomatic text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Dead Sea copies of Joshua are fragmentary. This draft does not replace Leningrad with a reading that was not read off a fragment. No earlier wording is guessed into the English. The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default. Written consonants are printed. Where the Masoretic reading differs, the note says so.
Translation
Yahweh prints the divine name. The consonants in the Hebrew are YHWH. The vowels in “Yahweh” are a later convention, not a record of how the oldest copies said the name. See the glossary.

2Moses my servant is dead. Now rise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.

3Every place the sole of your foot treads on, I have given it to you, as I spoke to Moses.

4From the wilderness and this Lebanon, and as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea, where the sun goes in, shall be your border.

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Translation
Mevo ha-shemesh is where the sun goes in, the west side.

5No man shall take a stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you. I will not let you drop, and I will not forsake you.

6Be strong and be firm, for you shall give this people this land as an inheritance, the land I swore to their fathers to give them.

7Only be strong and be very firm, to keep to do according to all the instruction that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you succeed wherever you go.

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Translation
Torah is instruction.

8This scroll of the instruction shall not leave your mouth. You shall murmur it day and night, so that you keep to do according to all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosper, and then you shall succeed.

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Translation
Hagah is to murmur a text, to turn it over in a low voice.

9Have I not commanded you? Be strong and be firm. Do not be shattered, and do not be broken, for Yahweh your God is with you in all that you go to.

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Translation
YHWH Elohim is printed Yahweh God. Yahweh is the name. God is Elohim. A suffix makes it “our God” or “your God.” See the glossary.

10Joshua commanded the officials of the people, saying,

11Cross through the middle of the camp and command the people, saying, Prepare provision for yourselves, for in three more days you are crossing this Jordan, to go in and take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to take possession of.

12To the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, saying,

13Remember the word that Moses, the servant of Yahweh, commanded you, saying, Yahweh your God is giving you rest, and he will give you this land.

14Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall stay in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, and you shall cross over in battle lines before your brothers, all the warriors of worth, and you shall help them,

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Translation
Chamushim is drawn up in battle lines. Gibbore ha-chayil are warriors of worth.

15until Yahweh gives your brothers rest as he has you, and they too take possession of the land that Yahweh your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and take possession of it, the land Moses, the servant of Yahweh, gave you beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise.

16They answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

17As we listened to Moses in everything, so we will listen to you. Only let Yahweh your God be with you as he was with Moses.

18Any man who rebels against your mouth and does not listen to your words, in everything you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and be firm.

1After the death of Moses, the servant of Yahweh, Yahweh said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ attendant, saying,

Notes (3)

Process
No published English Bible, commentary, or study note was open while Joshua was drafted. The wording source was the ancient-language witnesses named in the notes. A lexicon or grammar may be used for a source word. Greek, Syriac, and Latin, when they appear, witness the source wording. They are not models for the English.
Text
The continuous copy is the Leningrad Codex, read in the Open Scriptures diplomatic text of the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Dead Sea copies of Joshua are fragmentary. This draft does not replace Leningrad with a reading that was not read off a fragment. No earlier wording is guessed into the English. The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default. Written consonants are printed. Where the Masoretic reading differs, the note says so.
Translation
Yahweh prints the divine name. The consonants in the Hebrew are YHWH. The vowels in “Yahweh” are a later convention, not a record of how the oldest copies said the name. See the glossary.

2Moses my servant is dead. Now rise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.

3Every place the sole of your foot treads on, I have given it to you, as I spoke to Moses.

4From the wilderness and this Lebanon, and as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great Sea, where the sun goes in, shall be your border.

Notes (1)

Translation
Mevo ha-shemesh is where the sun goes in, the west side.

5No man shall take a stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, I will be with you. I will not let you drop, and I will not forsake you.

6Be strong and be firm, for you shall give this people this land as an inheritance, the land I swore to their fathers to give them.

Notes (1)

Translation
Torah is instruction.

Notes (1)

Translation
Hagah is to murmur a text, to turn it over in a low voice.

9Have I not commanded you? Be strong and be firm. Do not be shattered, and do not be broken, for Yahweh your God is with you in all that you go to.

Notes (1)

Translation
YHWH Elohim is printed Yahweh God. Yahweh is the name. God is Elohim. A suffix makes it “our God” or “your God.” See the glossary.

10Joshua commanded the officials of the people, saying,

12To the Reubenite, to the Gadite, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, saying,

13Remember the word that Moses, the servant of Yahweh, commanded you, saying, Yahweh your God is giving you rest, and he will give you this land.

Notes (1)

Translation
Chamushim is drawn up in battle lines. Gibbore ha-chayil are warriors of worth.

16They answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

17As we listened to Moses in everything, so we will listen to you. Only let Yahweh your God be with you as he was with Moses.

18Any man who rebels against your mouth and does not listen to your words, in everything you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and be firm.