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 9:16
Context9:16 Three days after they made the treaty with them, the Israelites found out they were from the local area and lived nearby. 4
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. 5
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 Heb “At the end of three days, after they made the treaty with them, they heard that they were neighbors to them and in their midst they were living.”
5 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.”
