Discovery BoxJoshua 2:15-16 
Context2:15 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 2:16 She told them, “Head 5 to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. 6 Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you 7 to return. Then you can be on your way.”
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 Heb “Go.”
6 tn Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”
7 tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.
