1tn Heb “many days.”

2tn Heb “the Lord had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around.”

3tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following verse.

4tn Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”

5tn Heb “I have assigned by lots to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes.”

6tn Heb “the Great Sea,” the typical designation for the Mediterranean Sea.

7tn Heb “from the Jordan and all the nations which I cut off and the Great Sea [at] the place where the sun sets.” The relationship of the second half of the verse, which mentions nations already conquered, to the first half, which speaks of “remaining nations,” is difficult to understand.

8tn The Hebrew text reads, “from before you.” This has not been included in the translation because it is redundant in English.

9tn Or “take possession of.”

10tn Heb “said to.”

11tn Heb “Be strong so you can be careful to do.”

12tn Heb “with.”

13tn Heb “and in the name of their gods you must not invoke and you must not make solemn declarations.” The words “and you must not make solemn declarations” are omitted in the LXX and may represent a later scribal addition to elucidate the immediately preceding command. The Hiphil of שָׁבַע (shava’) without an object occurs only here and in Josh 6:26.

14tn Or “serve.”

15tn Heb “hug.”

16tn Heb “done.”

17tn Heb “not a man has stood before you.”

18tn Or “chases a thousand.”

19tn Heb “for the Lord your God, he [is] the one who fights for you.”

20tn Heb “as he said to you.”

21tn Heb “Watch carefully yourselves so as to love the Lord your God.”

22tn Heb “and hug.”

23tn Heb “the remnant of the these nations, these nations that are with you.”

24tn Heb “and go into them, and they into you.”

25tn Heb “be a trap and a snare to you.”

26tn Heb “in.”

27tn Heb “thorns in your eyes.”

28tn Or “perish.”

29tn Heb “go the way of all the earth.”

30tn Or “soul.”

31tn Heb “one word from all these words which the Lord your God spoke to you has not fallen, the whole has come to pass for you, one word from it has not fallen.”

32tn Heb “and it will be as every good word which the Lord your God spoke to you has come to pass.”

33tn Heb “so the Lord will bring every injurious [or “evil”] word [or “thing”] upon you.”

34tn Heb “when you violate the covenant of the Lord your God which he commanded you.”

35tn Heb “and you walk and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

36tn Or “perish.”