Joshua 2:13

2:13 that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us¹ from death.”

Joshua 10:35

10:35 That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they² annihilated it just as they³ had done to Lachish.

11:11 They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword⁴ – no one who breathed remained – and burned⁵ Hazor.

20:3 Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there;⁶ these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.

¹tn Or “our lives.”

²tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

³tn Heb “he”; the implied subject may be Israel, or Joshua (as the commanding general of the army).

³tn Heb “and they struck down all life which was in it with the edge of the sword, annihilating.”

⁴tn Heb “burned with fire”; the words “with fire” are redundant in English and have not been included in the translation.

⁴tn Heb “so that the one who kills, taking life accidentally without knowledge, may flee there.”