Yosua 1:8

1:8 This law scroll must not leave your lips! ¹  You must memorize it ²  day and night so you can carefully obey ³  all that is written in it. Then you will prosper ⁴  and be successful. ⁵ 

Yosua 8:34

8:34 Then ⁶  Joshua read aloud all the words of the law, including the blessings and the curses, just as they are written in the law scroll.

Yosua 23:6

23:6 Be very strong! Carefully obey ⁷  all that is written in the law scroll of Moses so you won’t swerve from it to the right or the left,

Yosua 24:26

24:26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine.

[1:8]  ¹ tn Heb “mouth.”

[1:8]  sn This law scroll must not leave your lips. The ancient practice of reading aloud to oneself as an aid to memorization is in view here.

[1:8]  ² tn Heb “read it in undertones,” or “recite it quietly” (see HALOT 1:237).

[1:8]  ³ tn Heb “be careful to do.”

[1:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “you will make your way prosperous.”

[1:8]  ⁵ tn Heb “and be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.

[8:34]  ⁶ tn Or “afterward.”

[23:6]  ⁷ tn Heb “Be strong so you can be careful to do.”