Joshua 3:4

3:4 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 7:3

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

¹ tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”

² tn Heb “do not approach it.”

³ tn Heb “know.”

⁴ tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”

⁵ tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”

⁶ tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”

⁷ tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”