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 5:4
Context5:4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt. 8
Joshua 22:17
Context22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord. 9
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].”
8 tn Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way when they went out from Egypt.”
9 tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the
