Joshua 18:3 - New International Version (Anglicised)

³ So Joshua said to the Israelites: ‘How long will you wait before you begin to take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Joshua asked the Israelites, How long will you be slack to go in and possess the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, hath given you?

Common English Bible

³ Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you avoid going to take over the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, has given you?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And Joshua said to them: "For how long will you draw back in idleness, and not enter to possess the land, which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given to you?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given you?

Joshua 18:3 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 10:4

Lazy hands make for poverty, but diligent hands bring wealth.

Proverbs 13:4

A sluggard’s appetite is never filled, but the desires of the diligent are fully satisfied.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the sluggard is blocked with thorns, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

Zephaniah 3:16

On that day they will say to Jerusalem, ‘Do not fear, Zion; do not let your hands hang limp.

Matthew 20:6

About five in the afternoon he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, “Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?”

John 6:27

Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.’

Joshua 1:6

Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.

Joshua 13:1

When Joshua had grown old, the Lord said to him, ‘You are now very old, and there are still very large areas of land to be taken over.

Joshua 18:2

but there were still seven Israelite tribes who had not yet received their inheritance.

Joshua 18:4

Appoint three men from each tribe. I will send them out to make a survey of the land and to write a description of it, according to the inheritance of each. Then they will return to me.

Judges 18:9

They answered, ‘Come on, let’s attack them! We have seen the land, and it is very good. Aren’t you going to do something? Don’t hesitate to go there and take it over.