⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest, God^[a] would not have spoken of another day later on. ⁹ So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, ¹⁰ for whoever has entered God's rest has also ^(A)rested from his works as God did from his.

¹¹ Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so ^(B)that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience.

Joshua's Charge to Israel's Leaders

23 A long time afterward, when the Lord had given ^(A)rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua ^(B)was old and well advanced in years,

¹² so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be ^(A)to the praise of his glory.

^6 (A)to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in ^(B)the Beloved.

⁵ Then the Levites, Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, “Stand up and bless the Lord your God from everlasting to everlasting. ^(A)Blessed be your glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.

¹³ And now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.