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Excerpt from Joshua the Hebrew and Greek Texts
We will be guiltless of the oath which thou hast caused us to swear.
The two Hebrew words translated which thou hast caused us to swear are not represented in the Greek of either if. 17 or c. 20. Even if the words on their first occurrence in v. 17 were omitted by accident it would be very strange if the same accident occurred again a few lines later on in v. 20. It can be proved moreover that the translator in this passage was under no desire to shorten the text, for in v. 19 to the words and we will be guiltless he makes an addition by inserting the words of this thy oath. This addition which is in accordance with the LXX tendency of amplification makes it difficult to believe that the same writer deliberately omitted the words which thou hast caused us to swear, in v. 17 and again in v. 20.
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