1 tn Heb “and they returned to Joshua and said to him.”
2 tn Heb “Don’t let all the people go up.”
3 tn Heb “Let about two thousand men or about three thousand men go up to defeat Ai.”
4 tn Heb “all the people for they are small.”
5 tn Heb “ten leaders with him, one leader, one leader for a paternal house, for all the tribes of Israel, and each a head of the house of their father, they belong to the clans of Israel.”