Discovery BoxJoshua 8:8 
Context8:8 When you capture the city, set it 1 on fire. Do as the Lord says! See, I have given you orders.” 2
Joshua 8:31
Context8:31 just as Moses the Lord’s servant had commanded the Israelites. As described in the law scroll of Moses, it was made with uncut stones untouched by an iron tool. 3 They offered burnt sacrifices on it and sacrificed tokens of peace. 4
1 tn Heb “the city.”
2 tn Heb “I have commanded you.”
3 tn Heb “as it is written in the scroll of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones on which no one had wielded iron.” The expression “whole stones” refers to stones in their natural condition, i.e., not carved or shaped artificially with tools (“wielded iron”).
4 tn Or “peace offerings.”
