⁸ For if Joshua had given them rest,^(A) God would not have spoken^(B) later about another day. ⁹ There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; ¹⁰ for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,^[a](C) just as God did from his.^{(D) 11} Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.^(E)

Joshua’s Farewell to the Leaders

23 After a long time had passed and the Lord had given Israel rest^(A) from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man,^(B)

¹² in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.^(A)

⁶ to the praise of his glorious grace,^(A) which he has freely given us in the One he loves.^(B)

⁵ And the Levites—Jeshua, Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabneiah, Sherebiah, Hodiah, Shebaniah and Pethahiah—said: “Stand up and praise the Lord your God,^(A) who is from everlasting to everlasting.^[a]”