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22 Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land, “Enter the prostitute’s house[a] and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.”[b] 23 So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside[c] the Israelite camp. 24 But they burned[d] the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord’s house.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 6:22 tn Heb “the house of the woman, the prostitute.”
  2. Joshua 6:22 tn Heb “and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her as you swore on oath to her.”
  3. Joshua 6:23 tn Or “placed them outside.”
  4. Joshua 6:24 tn The Hebrew text adds “with fire.”
  5. Joshua 6:24 tn Heb “the treasury of the house of the Lord.” Technically the Lord did not have a “house” yet, so perhaps this refers to the tabernacle using later terminology.

22 Joshua said to the two men(A) who had spied out(B) the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.(C) 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her.(D) They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

24 Then they burned the whole city(E) and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron(F) into the treasury of the Lord’s house.(G)

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