Discovery BoxJoshua 6:17 
Context6:17 The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the Lord, 1 except for Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house, because she hid the spies 2 we sent.
Joshua 6:22
Context6:22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, “Enter the prostitute’s house 3 and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.” 4
Joshua 6:25
Context6:25 Yet Joshua spared 5 Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, 6 and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel 7 to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. 8
1 tn Or “dedicated to the
sn To make the city set apart for the
2 tn Heb “messengers.”
3 tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”
4 tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”
5 tn Heb “kept alive.”
6 tn Heb the house of her father.”
7 tn Or “among the Israelites”; Heb “in the midst of Israel.”
8 map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.
