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 3:15

3:15 When the ones carrying the ark reached the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark touched the surface ⁴  of the water – (the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest time) ⁵  –

Joshua 15:18

15:18 One time Acsah ⁶  came and charmed her father ⁷  so that she could ask him for some land. When she got down from her donkey, Caleb said to her, “What would you like?”

Joshua 22:23-24

22:23 If we have built ⁸  an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the Lord by making ⁹  burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering ¹⁰  tokens of peace ¹¹  on it, the Lord himself will punish us. ¹²  22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that ¹³  in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? ¹⁴ 

[3:4]  ¹ tn Heb “But there should be a distance between you and it, about two thousand cubits in measurement.”

[3:4]  ² tn Heb “do not approach it.”

[3:4]  ³ tn Heb “know.”

[3:15]  ⁴ tn Heb “dipped into the edge.”

[3:15]  ⁵ tn Heb “and the Jordan overflows all its banks all the days of harvest.”

[15:18]  ⁷ tn Heb “she”; the referent (Acsah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[15:18]  ⁸ tn Heb “him.” The referent of the pronoun could be Othniel, in which case the translation would be, “she incited him [Othniel] to ask her father for a field.” This is problematic, however, for Acsah, not Othniel, makes the request in v. 19. The LXX has “he [Othniel] urged her to ask her father for a field.” This appears to be an attempt to reconcile the apparent inconsistency and probably does not reflect the original text. If Caleb is understood as the referent of the pronoun, the problem disappears. For a fuller discussion of the issue, see P. G. Mosca, “Who Seduced Whom? A Note on Joshua 15:18//Judges 1:14,” CBQ 46 (1984): 18-22. This incident is also recorded in Judg 1:14.

[22:23]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “by building.” The prepositional phrase may be subordinated to what precedes, “if in unfaithfulness…by building.”

[22:23]  ¹¹ tn Heb “or if to offer up.”

[22:23]  ¹² tn Heb “or if to make.”

[22:23]  ¹³ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[22:23]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “the Lord, he will seek.” Perhaps this is a self-imprecation in an oath, “may the Lord himself punish us.”

[22:24]  ¹³ tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”

[22:24]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”