Discovery BoxJoshua 2:16 
Context2:16 She told them, “Head 1 to the hill country, so the ones chasing you don’t find you. 2 Hide from them there for three days, long enough for those chasing you 3 to return. Then you can be on your way.”
Joshua 2:22
Context2:22 They went 4 to the hill country and stayed there for three days, long enough for those chasing them 5 to return. Their pursuers 6 looked all along the way but did not find them. 7
Joshua 18:8
Context18:8 When the men started out, Joshua told those going to map out the land, “Go, walk through the land, map it out, and return to me. Then I will draw lots for you before the Lord here in Shiloh.”
1 tn Heb “Go.”
2 tn Heb “so that the pursuers might not meet you.”
3 tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“you”) is not in the Hebrew text but is implied.
4 tn Heb “they went and came.”
5 tn Heb “the pursuers.” The object (“them”) is added for clarification.
6 tn Heb “the ones chasing them.” This has been rendered as “their pursuers” in the translation to avoid redundancy with the preceding clause.
7 tn Heb “The pursuers looked in all the way and did not find [them].”
