But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.
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But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.
And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
But if you tell this matter of ours, then we will be innocent from your oath that you have made us swear.”
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.
And if you report our mission, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”
And if you report our mission, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.”
And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
But if thou utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
And if thou vtter this our matter, we will be quite of thine othe, which thou hast made vs sweare.
If when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren and all thy kindred into thy house.
and if thou declare this our matter, then we have been acquitted from thine oath which thou hast caused us to swear.'
and if you declare this—our matter, then we have been acquitted from your oath which you have caused us to swear.”
But if you speak about our business, we will be free from the oath you made us swear.”
But if you tell this matter of ours, then we will be innocent from your oath that you have made us swear.”
And if thou make known this our business, we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you’ve made us to swear.”
And if thou shalt utter this our business, then we will be quit of thy oath which thou hast made us to swear.
But if you tell anyone about this then we will be freed from the promise you made us swear.”
But if you say anything about our business here, then we will be free from the oath you have made us take.
But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.'
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Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִשְּׁבֻעָתֵ֖ךְ oath H7621 occurs in 29 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
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Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 20 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.
Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.
In the original languages it is 10 Hebrew tokens and 18 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.
Topical passages linked to Joshua 2:20 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
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The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
וְאִם תַּגִּ֖ידִי אֶת דְּבָרֵ֣נוּ זֶ֑ה וְהָיִ֣ינוּ נְקִיִּ֔ם מִשְּׁבֻעָתֵ֖ךְ אֲשֶׁ֥ר הִשְׁבַּעְתָּֽנוּ
But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.
World English Bible · Public Domain
ἐάν δέ τις ἐγώ ἀδικέω ἤ καί ἀποκαλύπτω ὁ λόγος ἐγώ οὗτος εἰμί ἀθῷος ὁ ὅρκος σύ οὗτος
But if any one should injure us, or betray these our matters, we shall be quit of this your oath.
LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain
Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →
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וְאִם תְּחַוִין יַת פִּתְגָמָנָא דֵין וּנְהֵי זַכָּאִין מִמוֹמָתִיךְ דְקַיֵימְתְּ עֲלָנָא:
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Targum Jonathan — Aramaic: “Mikraot Gedolot” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “London "Chaldee Paraphrase," 1871” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
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Joshua, in the Historical, opens this verse with 10 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shᵉbûwʻâh (“oath”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Joshua 2:20 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.
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Geneva Bible (1599)
Geneva Bible translators
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
John Gill's Exposition
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible
Daniel D. Whedon
Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
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Door43 World Missions Community
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