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Joshua 2:3-5
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Joshua 2:3-5
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3 So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab:[a] “Turn over[b] the men who came to you[c]—the ones who came to your house[d]—for they have come to spy on the whole land!” 4 But the woman hid the two men[e] and replied, “Yes, these men were clients of mine,[f] but I didn’t know where they came from. 5 When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left.[g] I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”
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- Joshua 2:3 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
- Joshua 2:3 tn Heb “bring out.”
- Joshua 2:3 tn The idiom “come to” (בוֹא אֶל, boʾ ʾel) probably has sexual connotations here, as it often does elsewhere when a man “comes to” a woman. If so, the phrase could be translated “your clients.” The instructions reflect Rahab’s perspective as to the identity of the men.
- Joshua 2:3 tn The words “the ones who came to your house” (Heb “who came to your house”) may be a euphemistic scribal addition designed to blur the sexual connotation of the preceding words.
- Joshua 2:4 tn Heb “The woman took the two men and hid him.” The third masculine singular pronominal suffix on “hid” has to be a scribal error (see GKC §135.p).
- Joshua 2:4 tn Heb “the men came to me.” See the note on this phrase in v. 3.
- Joshua 2:5 tn Heb “And the gate was to be shut in the darkness and the men went out.”
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