Joshua 2:19

2:19 Anyone who leaves your house will be responsible for his own death – we are innocent in that case!¹ But if anyone with you in the house is harmed, we will be responsible.²

Joshua 7:3

7:3 They returned and reported to Joshua,³ “Don’t send the whole army.⁴ About two or three thousand men are adequate to defeat Ai.⁵ Don’t tire out the whole army, for Ai is small.”⁶

Joshua 7:14

7:14 In the morning you must approach in tribal order.⁷ The tribe the Lord selects⁸ must approach by clans. The clan the Lord selects must approach by families.⁹ The family the Lord selects must approach man by man.¹⁰

Joshua 10:27

10:27 At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees.¹¹ They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)¹²

Joshua 18:16

18:16 The border then descended to the edge of the hill country near the Valley of Ben Hinnom located in the Valley of the Rephaites to the north. It descended through the Valley of Hinnom to the slope of the Jebusites to the south and then down to En Rogel.

Joshua 20:4

20:4 The one who committed manslaughter¹³ should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city.¹⁴ They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there.¹⁵

Joshua 24:7

24:7 Your fathers¹⁶ cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark,¹⁷ and then drowned them in the sea.¹⁸ You witnessed with your very own eyes¹⁹ what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.²⁰

Joshua 24:32

24:32 The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money.²¹ So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.²²

¹tn Heb “Anyone who goes out from the doors of your house to the outside, his blood is on his head. We are innocent.”

²tn Heb “But anyone who is with you in the house, his blood is on our head if a hand should be on him.”

³tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”

⁴tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”

⁵tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”

⁶tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”

⁵tn Heb “by your tribes.”

⁶tn Heb “takes forcefully, seizes.”

⁷tn Heb “houses.”

⁸tn Heb “by men.”

⁷sn For the legal background of the removal of the corpses before sundown, see Deut 21:22-23.

⁸tn Heb “to this very day.” The words “They remain” are supplied in the translation for clarification.

⁹tn Heb “he”; the referent (the one who accidentally kills another, cf. v. 2) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁰tn Heb “and speak into the ears of the elders of that city his words.”

¹¹tn Heb “and they should gather him into the city to themselves, give to him a place, and he will live with them.”

¹¹tn Heb “they”; the referent (the fathers) has been specified in the translation for clarity (see the previous verse).

¹²tn Or “put darkness between you and the Egyptians.”

¹³tn Heb “and he brought over them the sea and covered them.”

¹⁴tn Heb “your eyes saw.”

¹⁵tn Heb “many days.”

¹³tn Heb “one hundred qesitahs.” The Hebrew word קְשִׂיטָה (qesitah) is generally understood to refer to a unit of money, but the value and/or weight is unknown. The word occurs only here and in Gen 33:19 and Job 42:11.

¹⁴tn Heb “and they became for the sons of Joseph an inheritance.” One might think “bones” is the subject of the verb “they became,” but the verb is masculine, while “bones” is feminine. The translation follows the emendation suggested in the BHS note, which appeals to the Syriac and Vulgate for support. The emended reading understands “the part (of the field)” as the subject of the verb “became.” The emended verb is feminine singular; this agrees with “the part” (of the field), which is feminine in Hebrew.