Discovery BoxJoshua 2:15 
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
Joshua 5:5
Context5:5 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
Context18:4 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
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.”
