I have sinned against the LORD may need to be rendered “I did not obey the LORD” or “I did what the LORD said not to do.”

And this is what I did may not be necessary to include in the translation, since the following verse immediately explains what Achan did.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Newman, Barclay M. A Handbook on Joshua. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 1983. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .