Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you.(A) Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go. This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth;(B) you are to recite[a] it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do.(C) Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous?(D) Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 1:8 Or meditate on

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 withersoever thou goest.

This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

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