diff --git a/src/jv_aux.c b/src/jv_aux.c
index 6004799c6a..aec3765196 100644
--- a/src/jv_aux.c
+++ b/src/jv_aux.c
@@ -500,8 +500,10 @@ jv jv_delpaths(jv object, jv paths) {
     jv_free(paths);
     return jv_invalid_with_msg(jv_string("Paths must be specified as an array"));
   }
-  paths = jv_sort(paths, jv_copy(paths));
-  jv_array_foreach(paths, i, elem) {
+  int paths_length = jv_array_length(jv_copy(paths));
+  paths = jv_sort(jv_array_slice(paths, 0, paths_length), jv_copy(paths));
+  for(int i = 0; i < paths_length; i++) {
+    jv elem = jv_array_get(jv_copy(paths), i);
     if (jv_get_kind(elem) != JV_KIND_ARRAY) {
       jv_free(object);
       jv_free(paths);
@@ -512,7 +514,7 @@ jv jv_delpaths(jv object, jv paths) {
     }
     jv_free(elem);
   }
-  if (jv_array_length(jv_copy(paths)) == 0) {
+  if (paths_length == 0) {
     // nothing is being deleted
     jv_free(paths);
     return object;
@@ -522,7 +524,7 @@ jv jv_delpaths(jv object, jv paths) {
     jv_free(paths);
     jv_free(object);
     return jv_null();
-  }
+  }  
   return delpaths_sorted(object, paths, 0);
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/jq.test b/tests/jq.test
index b94f29d245..b0e9f0975e 100644
--- a/tests/jq.test
+++ b/tests/jq.test
@@ -1023,6 +1023,10 @@ try delpaths(0) catch .
 {}
 "Paths must be specified as an array"
 
+map(delpaths([[6], [7], [8], [9], [10]]))
+[[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]]
+[[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]]
+
 del(.), del(empty), del((.foo,.bar,.baz) | .[2,3,0]), del(.foo[0], .bar[0], .foo, .baz.bar[0].x)
 {"foo": [0,1,2,3,4], "bar": [0,1]}
 null