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Joshua 2:13

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2:13 that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us 1  from death.”

Joshua 9:20-21

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9:20 We must let them live so we can escape the curse attached to the oath we swore to them.” 2  9:21 The leaders then added, 3  “Let them live.” So they became 4  woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided. 5 

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[2:13]  1 tn Or “our lives.”

[9:20]  2 tn Heb “This is what we will do to them, keeping them alive so there will not be upon us anger concerning the oath which we swore to them.”

[9:21]  3 tc Heb “and the leaders said to them.” The LXX omits the words “and the leaders said to them.”

[9:21]  4 tn The vav (ו) consecutive construction in the Hebrew text suggests that the narrative resumes at this point. The LXX reads here, “and they will be,” understanding what follows to be a continuation of the leaders’ words rather than a comment by the narrator.

[9:21]  5 tn Heb “as the leaders said to them.”



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