Yosua 1:7

1:7 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 

Yosua 6:20

6:20 The rams’ horns sounded ⁶  and when the army ⁷  heard the signal, ⁸  they gave a loud battle cry. ⁹  The wall collapsed ¹⁰  and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it. ¹¹ 

[1:7]  ¹ tn Or “Only be.”

[1:7]  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!”

[1:7]  ³ tn Heb “commanded you.”

[1:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[1:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “in all which you go.”

[6:20]  ⁶ tc Heb “and the people shouted and they blew the rams’ horns.” The initial statement (“and the people shouted”) seems premature, since the verse goes on to explain that the battle cry followed the blowing of the horns. The statement has probably been accidentally duplicated from what follows. It is omitted in the LXX.

[6:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “the sound of the horn.”

[6:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “they shouted with a loud shout.”

[6:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “fell in its place.”

[6:20]  ¹¹ tn Heb “and the people went up into the city, each one straight ahead, and they captured the city.”