7 Only be strong and ^jvery courageous, being careful to do according to all the law ^kthat Moses my servant commanded you. ^lDo not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success¹ wherever you go. 8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but ^myou shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

Joshua’s Charge to Israel’s Leaders

1 A long time afterward, when the Lord had given ^erest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua ^fwas old and well advanced in years, 2 Joshua ^gsummoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years. 3 And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, ^hfor it is the Lord your God who has fought for you. 4 Behold, ⁱI have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west. 5 The Lord your God ^jwill push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, ^kjust as the Lord your God promised you. 6 Therefore, ^lbe very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, ^mturning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,