Joshua - 22:3



3 You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God.

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Explanation and meaning of Joshua 22:3.

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Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Neither have you left your brethren this long time, until this present day, keeping the commandment of the Lord your God.
ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, and have kept the charge, the command of Jehovah your God.
You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.
Neither have you forsaken your brothers during this long time, even to the present day, keeping the orders of the Lord your God.
Non deseruistis fratres vestros jam diebus multis usque ad diem hanc, sed custodistis custodiam praecepti Jehovae Dei vestri.

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Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day,.... For the space of fourteen years, which is the commonly received notion of the Jews (f); seven years according to them the land was subduing, and seven more spent in dividing it, and then these tribes were sent for and dismissed; all this time they stayed close by their brethren, and assisted them in their wars, and never offered to return to their wives and children, until they had an order from their general:
but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God; for what both Moses and Joshua commanded them was from the mouth of the Lord; so that, in obeying them, they obeyed him.
(f) Seder Olam Rabba, c. 11. p. 32.

Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day--for the space of seven years.

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