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Joshua 1:7

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1:7Make sure you are10 very strong and brave! Carefully obey11 all the law my servant Moses charged you to keep!12 Do not swerve from it to the right or to the left, so that you may be successful13 in all you do.14

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Footnotes

  1. 10 Or “Only be.”
  2. 11 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!”
  3. 12 Heb “commanded you.”
  4. 13 Heb “be wise,” but the word can mean “be successful” by metonymy.
  5. 14 Heb “in all which you go.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Above all, be strong and very courageous to observe carefully the whole instruction my servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go.

NLTNew Living Translation

Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the instructions Moses gave you. Do not deviate from them, turning either to the right or to the left. Then you will be successful in everything you do.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Only be strong and very courageous to observe diligently the whole law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn aside from it, to the right or left, so that you may succeed wherever you go.

KJV 1900King James Version

Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.