The ceremony concluded, Joshua dismissed the people and they all went back home. For a literal rendering of this verse, see Revised Standard Version. In order to make the second clause easier to understand, Good News Translation supplies the verb returned. In some languages the use of a plural following people may be more appropriate than everyone … his of Good News Translation: “… the people away, and all of them returned to their own part of the land.”

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Newman, Barclay M. A Handbook on Joshua. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1983. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .