Footnotes

1. Joshua 2:1 tn Heb “Joshua, son of Nun, sent from Shittim two men, spies, secretly, saying.”
2. Joshua 2:1 tn Heb “go, see the land, and Jericho.”
3. Joshua 2:1 tn Heb “they went and entered the house of a woman, a prostitute, and her name was Rahab, and they slept there.”
4. Joshua 2:2 tn Or “look.”
5. Joshua 2:2 tn Heb “men have come here tonight from the sons of Israel.”
6. Joshua 2:3 tn Heb “and the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying.”
7. Joshua 2:3 tn Heb “bring out.”
8. 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.
9. 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.