Joshua. Rahab Meretrix.
Brief Comments on the Latin:
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2:1. Like most Hebrew names , Iosue does not decline; here it is the nominative subject of misit. The name Nun is in the genitive. Setthim, a place name, also does not decline. The word abscondito is an adverb: secretly. Hiericho, another place name, does not decline; here it is in the accusative, in apposition to urbem. Latin often uses a relative pronoun, qui, to join together what would be two separate sentences in English: "(and) they ... "
2:2. The place name Hiericho is in the genitive (rex Hiericho, "the king of Jericho"). Note the parallel construction: nuntiatum est and dictum [est]. Israhel is in the genitive (filii Israhel, "the sons of Israel").
2:3. The name Raab is in the accusative here.
2:4. This participle-verb construction, tollens abscondit, can be translated as verb-verb, "she took and hid." Viros is the object both of tollens and abscondit. Essent is subjunctive in indirect question introduced by unde.
2:5. Note tha cum here is not a preposition; it goes with the subjunctive verb, clauderetur, whose subject is porta.
2:8. The antecedent of qui is the implied subject of obdormierant (they, the men).
2:9. The use of quod to introduce indirect statement is non-classical.
2:10. The use of quod to introduce indirect statement is non-classical. The antecedent of quae is implied: "we heard [those things] which..."
2:11. The participle-verb construction audientes pertimuimus can be translated as verb-verb, "we heard and we were afraid."
2:12. The subjunctives faciatis and detis are introduced by ut ("swear to me that...").
2:13. The subjunctives salvetis and eruatis are introduced by the ut in the previous verse.
2:14. Latin often uses a relative pronoun, qui, to join together what would be two separate sentences in English: "(and) they answered ... " Note the future tense faciemus.
2:18. The phrase ingredientibus nobis is an ablative absolute.
2:19. The antecedent of qui actually comes after the relative
clause: ipsius ("the blood of the man who....").
Domus is in the genitive, agreeing with tuae.
2:20. The verb volueris takes complementary infinitives: prodere and proferre. The full form of adiurasti is adiuravisti.
2:21. The participle-verb construction, dimittens adpendit, can be translated as verb-verb, "she let them down and hung...."
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