30:1It shall happen, when all these things are come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations, where Yahweh your God has driven you,30:2and shall return to Yahweh your God, and shall obey his voice according to all that I command you this day, you and your children, with all your heart, and with all your soul;30:3that then Yahweh your God will turn your captivity, and have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples, where Yahweh your God has scattered you.30:4Ifany ofyour outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there will Yahweh your God gather you, and from there he will bring you back:30:5and Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and he will do you good, and multiply you above your fathers.30:6Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your seed, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, that you may live.30:7Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies, and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.30:8You shall return and obey the voice of Yahweh, and do all his commandments which I command you this day.30:9Yahweh your God will make you plenteous in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your body, and in the fruit of your livestock, and in the fruit of your ground, for good: for Yahweh will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers;30:10if you shall obey the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if you turn to Yahweh your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.30:11For this commandment which I command you this day, it is not too hard for you, neither is it far off.30:12It is not in heaven, that you should say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?30:13Neither is it beyond the sea, that you should say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it to us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?30:14But the word is very near to you, in your mouth, and in your heart, that you may do it.30:15Behold, I have set before you this day life and good, and death and evil;30:16in that I command you this day to love Yahweh your God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his ordinances, that you may live and multiply, and that Yahweh your God may bless you in the land where you go in to possess it.30:17But if your heart turn away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;30:18I denounce to you this day, that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land, where you pass over the Jordan to go in to possess it.30:19I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;30:20to love Yahweh your God, to obey his voice, and to cleave to him; for he is your life, and the length of your days; that you may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
31:1Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.31:2He said to them, I am one hundred twenty years old this day; I can no more go out and come in: and Yahweh has said to me, You shall not go over this Jordan.31:3Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them:andJoshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.31:4Yahweh will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land; whom he destroyed.31:5Yahweh will deliver them up before you, and you shall do to them according to all the commandment which I have commanded you.31:6Be strong and of good courage, don't be afraid, nor be scared of them: for Yahweh your God, he it is who does go with you; he will not fail you, nor forsake you.31:7Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.31:8Yahweh, he it is who does go before you; he will be with you, he will not fail you, neither forsake you: don't be afraid, neither be dismayed.31:9Moses wrote this law, and delivered it to the priests the sons of Levi, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and to all the elders of Israel.31:10Moses commanded them, saying, At the end ofeveryseven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tents,31:11when all Israel is come to appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he shall choose, you shall read this law before all Israel in their hearing.31:12Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your foreigner who is within your gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Yahweh your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;31:13and that their children, who have not known, may hear, and learn to fear Yahweh your God, as long as you live in the land where you go over the Jordan to possess it.31:14Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, your days approach that you must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the Tent of Meeting, that I may commission him. Moses and Joshua went, and presented themselves in the Tent of Meeting.31:15Yahweh appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.31:16Yahweh said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the prostitute after the strange gods of the land, where they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall come on them; so that they will say in that day, Haven't these evils come on us because our God is not among us?31:18I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have worked, in that they are turned to other gods.31:19Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach you it the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.31:20For when I shall have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat; then will they turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break my covenant.31:21It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.31:22So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.31:23He commissioned Joshua the son of Nun, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for you shall bring the children of Israel into the land which I swore to them: and I will be with you.31:24It happened, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,31:25that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,31:26Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.31:27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, you have been rebellious against Yahweh; and how much more after my death?31:28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.31:29For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will happen to you in the latter days; because you will do that which is evil in the sight of Yahweh, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.31:30Moses spoke in the ears of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were finished.
32:44Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.32:45Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;32:46He said to them, Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do,evenall the words of this law.32:47For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.32:48Yahweh spoke to Moses that same day, saying,32:49Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession;32:50and die on the mountain where you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor, and was gathered to his people:32:51because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah of Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because you didn't sanctify me in the midst of the children of Israel.32:52For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel.
33:1This is the blessing, with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.33:2He said,
33:7This isthe blessingof Judah: and he said,
33:8Of Levi he said,
33:12Of Benjamin he said,
33:13Of Joseph he said,
33:18Of Zebulun he said,
33:20Of Gad he said,
33:22Of Dan he said,
33:23Of Naphtali he said,
33:24Of Asher he said,
34:1Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,34:2and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, to the hinder sea,34:3and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.34:4Yahweh said to him, This is the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, I will give it to your seed: I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there.34:5So Moses the servant of Yahweh died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of Yahweh.34:6He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day.34:7Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died: his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.34:8The children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.34:9Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands on him: and the children of Israel listened to him, and did as Yahweh commanded Moses.34:10There has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom Yahweh knew face to face,34:11in all the signs and the wonders, which Yahweh sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,34:12and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses worked in the sight of all Israel.
Notes:
[1]back to 1:40or, Sea of Reeds
[2]back to 2:1or, Sea of Reeds
[3]back to 11:4or, Sea of Reeds
[4]back to 22:12or, tassles
[5]back to 33:16i. e. the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4.
1:1Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying,1:2Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I give to them, even to the children of Israel.1:3I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.1:4From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.1:5No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.1:6Be strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.1:7Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don't turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.1:8This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.1:9Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.
1:10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,1:11"Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, 'Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.'"
1:12Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,1:13"Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, 'Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.1:14Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them1:15until Yahweh has given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they have also possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.'"
1:16They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.1:17Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.1:18Whoever rebels against your commandment, and doesn't listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage."
2:1Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, and Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
2:2The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land."
2:3The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land."
2:4The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know where they came from.2:5It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them."2:6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof.2:7The men pursued them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.2:8Before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof;2:9and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.2:10For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of theRed Seabefore you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.2:11As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.2:12Now therefore, please swear to me by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token;2:13and that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death."
2:14The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk about this business of ours; and it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."
2:15Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall.2:16She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned. Afterward, you may go your way."
2:17The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear.2:18Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us down by. You shall gather to yourself into the house your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.2:19It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.2:20But if you talk about this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear."
2:21She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.
2:22They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.2:23Then the two men returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.2:24They said to Joshua, "Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us."
3:1Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over.3:2It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;3:3and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.3:4Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before."
3:5Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you."
3:6Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people." They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
3:7Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.3:8You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"
3:9Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."3:10Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.3:11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.3:12Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.3:13It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap."
3:14It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,3:15and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),3:16that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.3:17The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
4:1It happened, when all the nation had completely passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,4:2"Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,4:3and command them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging place, where you will lodge tonight.'"
4:4Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man.4:5Joshua said to them, "Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;4:6that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these stones?'4:7then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.'"
4:8The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.4:9Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.4:10For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.4:11It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.
4:12The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.4:13About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.4:14On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
4:15Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,4:16"Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan."
4:17Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out of the Jordan!"4:18It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.4:19The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
4:20Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, n Gilgal.4:21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do these stones mean?'4:22Then you shall let your children know, saying, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.4:23For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you had passed over, as Yahweh your God did to theRed Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had passed over;4:24that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.'"
5:1It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.5:2At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time."5:3Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.5:4This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.5:5For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.5:6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.5:7Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way.5:8It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
5:9Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that place was calledGilgal,to this day.5:10The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.5:11They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.5:12The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
5:13It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
5:14He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's army."
Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
5:15The prince of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take your shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy." Joshua did so.
6:1Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.6:2Yahweh said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.6:3All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.6:4Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.6:5It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."
6:6Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh."
6:7They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."
6:8It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.6:9The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
6:10Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."6:11So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.6:12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.6:13The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh. The trumpets sounded as they went.6:14The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
6:15It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.6:16It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!6:17The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.6:18But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.6:19But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury."
6:20So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.6:21They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.6:22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her."6:23The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.6:24They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh's house.6:25But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
6:26Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before Yahweh, who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."6:27So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
7:1But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel.7:2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out Ai.7:3They returned to Joshua, and said to him, Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; don't make all the people to toil there; for they are but few.7:4So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.7:5The men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased themfrombefore the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.7:6Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.7:7Joshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!7:8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?7:10Yahweh said to Joshua, Get you up; why are you thus fallen on your face?7:11Israel has sinned; yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yes, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff.7:12Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with you any more, except you destroy the devoted thing from among you.7:13Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel; you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted thing from among you.7:14In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Yahweh takes shall come near by families; and the family which Yahweh shall take shall come near by households; and the household which Yahweh shall take shall come near man by man.7:15It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done folly in Israel.7:16So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:7:17and he brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:7:18and he brought near his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.7:19Joshua said to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide it from me.7:20Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a truth I have sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:7:21when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.7:22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.7:23They took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel; and they laid them down before Yahweh.7:24Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his cattle, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.7:25Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.7:26They raised over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.
8:1Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;8:2You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only its spoil, and its livestock, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city behind it.8:3So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by night.8:4He commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:8:5and I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them;8:6and they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them;8:7and you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver it into your hand.8:8It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the word of Yahweh you shall do: behold, I have commanded you.8:9Joshua sent them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.8:10Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.8:11All the people,eventhemen ofwar who were with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai.8:12He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.8:13So they set the people, even all the army who was on the north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.8:14It happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.8:15Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.8:16All the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.8:17There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.8:18Yahweh said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.8:19The ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on fire.8:20When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.8:21When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai.8:22The others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.8:23The king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.8:24It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.8:25All that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.8:26For Joshua didn't draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.8:27Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.8:28So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this day.8:29The king of Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, to this day.8:30Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,8:31as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.8:32He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.8:33All Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as well the foreigner as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.8:34Afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.8:35There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.
9:1It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it;9:2that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.9:3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,9:4they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wineskins, old and torn and bound up,9:5and old and patched shoes on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become moldy.9:6They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make you a covenant with us.9:7The men of Israel said to the Hivites, What if you dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with you?9:8They said to Joshua, We are your servants. Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from whence come you?9:9They said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the name of Yahweh your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,9:10and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.9:11Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.9:12This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become moldy:9:13and these wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.9:14The men took of their provision, and didn't ask counsel at the mouth of Yahweh.9:15Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them.9:16It happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.9:17The children of Israel traveled, and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.9:18The children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.9:19But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.9:20This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath which we swore to them.9:21The princes said to them, Let them live: so they became wood cutters and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.9:22Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?9:23Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.9:24They answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.9:25Now, behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do.9:26So did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they didn't kill them.9:27That day Joshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
10:1Now it happened, when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;10:2that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.10:3Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,10:4Come up to me, and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.10:5Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.10:6The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the hill country are gathered together against us.10:7So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.10:8Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't fear them: for I have delivered them into your hands; there shall not a man of them stand before you.10:9Joshua therefore came on them suddenly;forhe went up from Gilgal all the night.10:10Yahweh confused them before Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.10:11It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.10:12Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still on Gibeon; You, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.10:13The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day.10:14There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man: for Yahweh fought for Israel.10:15Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.10:16These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.10:17It was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.10:18Joshua said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them:10:19but don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them; don't allow them to enter into their cities: for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.10:20It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,10:21that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.10:22Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to me out of the cave.10:23They did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.10:24It happened, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. They came near, and put their feet on the necks of them.10:25Joshua said to them, Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage: for thus shall Yahweh do to all your enemies against whom you fight.10:26Afterward Joshua struck them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging on the trees until the evening.10:27It happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, to this very day.10:28Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.10:29Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah:10:30and Yahweh delivered it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.10:31Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:10:32and Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.10:33Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.10:34Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;10:35and they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.10:36Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it:10:37and they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king, and all its cities, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were therein.10:38Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it:10:39and he took it, and its king, and all its cities; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.10:40So Joshua struck all the land, the hill country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.10:41Joshua struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.10:42All these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.10:43Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.