Discovery BoxJoshua 3:4 
Context3:4 But stay about three thousand feet behind it. 1 Keep your distance 2 so you can see 3 which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.”
Joshua 23:10
Context23:10 One of you makes a thousand run away, 4 for the Lord your God fights for you 5 as he promised you he would. 6
1 tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”
sn The precise distance is uncertain, but the measurement designated אַמָּה (’ammah, “cubit”) was probably equivalent to approximately eighteen inches (one and one-half feet, or 45 cm) in length.
2 tn Heb “do not approach it.”
3 tn Heb “know.”
4 tn Or “chases a thousand.”
5 tn Heb “for the
6 tn Heb “as he said to you.”
