Joshua 2:15

2:15 Then Rahab ¹  let them down by a rope ²  through the window. (Her ³  house was built as part of the city wall; she lived in the wall.) ⁴ 

Joshua 5:5

5:5 Now ⁵  all the men ⁶  who left were circumcised, but all the sons ⁷  born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

Joshua 18:4

18:4 Pick three men from each tribe. I will send them out to walk through the land and make a map of it for me. ⁸ 

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¹ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Rahab) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tc The phrase “by a rope” is omitted in the LXX. It may be a later clarifying addition. If original, the omission in the LXX is likely due to an error of homoioarcton. A scribe’s or translator’s eye could have jumped from the initial ב (bet) in the phrase בַּחֶבֶל (bakhevel, “with a rope”) to the initial ב on the immediately following בְּעַד (bÿ’ad, “through”) and accidentally omitted the intervening letters.

³ tn Heb “For her house.”

⁴ tc These explanatory statements are omitted in the LXX and probably represent a later scribal addition.

⁵ tn Or “indeed.”

⁶ tn Heb “people.”

⁷ tn Heb “all the people.”

⁸ tn Heb “I will send them so they may arise and walk about in the land and describe it in writing according to their inheritance and come to me.”