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 us ¹  from death.”

Joshua 9:20-21

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 

[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.”