
Joshua

   {1:1} Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of
[1>]Yahweh,[<1] that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses'
servant, saying, {1:2} "Moses 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. {1:3} I have given you every
place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses. {1:4}
From 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. {1:5} No 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.

   {1:6} "Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to
inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. {1:7}
Only 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. {1:8} This 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. {1:9} Haven't I
commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be
dismayed: for Yahweh your [2>]God[<2] is with you wherever you go."

   {1:10} Then 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.'"

   {1:12} Joshua 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. {1:14} Your 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 them {1:15}
until 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.'"

   {1:16} They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us
we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. {1:17} Just 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. {1:18} Whoever
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
courageous."

   {2:1} Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as
spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and
came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept
there.

   {2:2} The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of
Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land."

   {2:3} The 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."

   {2:4} The 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. {2:5} It
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." {2:6} But 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. {2:7} The 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. {2:8} Before they had laid down, she came up to them on
the roof; {2:9} and 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. {2:10} For we have
heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the [3>]Red Sea[<3] before 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. {2:11} As 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. {2:12} Now 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; {2:13} and 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."

   {2:14} The 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."

   {2:15} Then 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. {2:16}
She 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."

   {2:17} The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath
which you have made us to swear. {2:18} Behold, when we come into the
land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which
you used to let us down. You shall gather to yourself into the house
your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's
household. {2:19} It 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. {2:20} But if you talk about this
business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you
have made us to swear."

   {2:21} She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them
away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.

   {2:22} They 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. {2:23} Then 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. {2:24}
They said to Joshua, "Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the
land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us."

   {3:1} Joshua 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. {3:2} It happened after
three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp; {3:3}
and 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. {3:4} Yet 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."

   {3:5} Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow
Yahweh will do wonders among you."

   {3:6} Joshua 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.

   {3:7} Yahweh 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. {3:8} You 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.'"

   {3:9} Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear
the words of Yahweh your God." {3:10} Joshua 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. {3:11} Behold, the ark of the covenant of the
[4>]Lord[<4] of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
{3:12} Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for
every tribe a man. {3:13} It 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."

   {3:14} It 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, {3:15} and 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), {3:16} that 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. {3:17} The 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.

   {4:1} It 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, {4:3} and 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.'"

   {4:4} Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the
children of Israel, out of every tribe a man. {4:5} Joshua 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; {4:6} that this may be a sign among you, that when your
children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these
stones?' {4:7} then 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.'"

   {4:8} The 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. {4:9} Joshua 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.
{4:10} For 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. {4:11} It 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.

   {4:12} The 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. {4:13} About forty thousand men, ready
and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of
Jericho. {4:14} On 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.

   {4:15} Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, {4:16} "Command the priests
who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan."

   {4:17} Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out
of the Jordan!" {4:18} It 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. {4:19} The 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.

   {4:20} Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the
Jordan, in Gilgal. {4:21} He spoke to the children of Israel, saying,
"When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do
these stones mean?' {4:22} Then you shall let your children know,
saying, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. {4:23} For Yahweh
your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you
had passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the [5>]Red Sea[<5], which
he dried up from before us, until we had passed over; {4:24} that all
the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is
mighty; that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.'"

   {5:1} It 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. {5:2} At that time, Yahweh said to
Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel
the second time." {5:3} Joshua made himself flint knives, and
circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. {5:4}
This 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. {5:5} For 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. {5:6} For 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. {5:7} Their 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. {5:8} It happened,
when they were done circumcising all the nation, that they stayed in
their places in the camp until they were healed.

   {5:9} Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach
of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that place was called
[6>]Gilgal,[<6] to this day. {5:10} The children of Israel encamped in
Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at
evening in the plains of Jericho. {5:11} They ate unleavened cakes and
parched grain of the produce of the land on the next day after the
Passover, in the same day. {5:12} The 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.

   {5:13} It 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?"

   {5:14} He 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?"

   {5:15} The 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.

   {6:1} Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of
Israel. No one went out, and no one came in. {6:2} Yahweh said to
Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and
the mighty men of valor. {6:3} All your men of war shall march around
the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days. {6:4}
Seven 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. {6:5} It 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."

   {6:6} Joshua 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."

   {6:7} They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and
let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."

   {6:8} It 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. {6:9} The armed men went before the priests who blew the
trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they
went.

   {6:10} Joshua 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." {6:11}
So 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. {6:12}
Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of
Yahweh. {6:13} The 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. {6:14} The second
day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They
did this six days.

   {6:15} It 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.
{6:16} It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the
trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you
the city! {6:17} The 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.
{6:18} But 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. {6:19} But all
the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to
Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury."

   {6:20} So 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. {6:21} They 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. {6:22} Joshua 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."
{6:23} The 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. {6:24} They 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. {6:25} But 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.

   {6:26} Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying,
"Cursed is 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."
{6:27} So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.

   {7:1} But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted
things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of
Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things.
Therefore Yahweh's anger burned against the children of Israel. {7:2}
Joshua 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. {7:3} They 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 there are only a few of them." {7:4} So about three
thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men
of Ai. {7:5} The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and
they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them
at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
{7:6} Joshua 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. {7:7} Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh,
why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us
into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we
had been content and lived beyond the Jordan! {7:8} Oh, Lord, what
shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their
enemies! {7:9} For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land
will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the
earth. What will you do for your great name?"

   {7:10} Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you fallen on your
face like that? {7:11} Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even
transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even
taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived.
They have even put it among their own stuff. {7:12} Therefore the
children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their
backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for
destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the
devoted things from among you.

   {7:13} "Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves
for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted
thing in the midst of you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies
until you take away the devoted thing from among you."

   {7:14} "'In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your
tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near
by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by
households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by
man. {7:15} It 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 a
disgraceful thing in Israel.'"

   {7:16} So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel
near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected. {7:17} He
brought near the family of Judah; and he selected the family of the
Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and
Zabdi was selected. {7:18} 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 selected. {7:19} Joshua said to Achan, "My son,
please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to
him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"

   {7:20} Achan answered Joshua, and said, "I have truly sinned against
Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done. {7:21} When I
saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of
silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them
and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of
my tent, with the silver under it."

   {7:22} So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold,
it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. {7:23} They took
them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all
the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh. {7:24}
Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the
silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his
cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they
brought them up to the valley of Achor. {7:25} Joshua said, "Why have
you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned
him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with
stones. {7:26} They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains
to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore
the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.

   {8:1} Yahweh 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, with his people, his city,
and his land. {8:2} You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to
Jericho and her king, except its spoil and its livestock, you shall
take for a plunder for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind
it."

   {8:3} So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai.
Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent
them out by night. {8:4} He commanded them, saying, "Behold, you shall
lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Don't go very far from
the city, but all of you be ready. {8:5} 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. {8:6} They
will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city;
for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we
will flee before them, {8:7} and you shall rise up from the ambush, and
take possession of the city; for Yahweh your God will deliver it into
your hand. {8:8} It shall be, when you have seized on the city, that
you shall set the city on fire. You shall do this according to the word
of Yahweh. Behold, I have commanded you."

   {8:9} Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and
stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed
among the people that night. {8:10} Joshua rose up early in the
morning, mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel,
before the people to Ai. {8:11} All the people, even the men of war 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. {8:12} He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush
between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. {8:13} So 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. {8:14} It 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. {8:15} Joshua and all Israel made
as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the
wilderness. {8:16} All the people who were in the city were called
together to pursue after them. They pursued Joshua, and were drawn away
from the city. {8:17} There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who
didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

   {8:18} Yahweh 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. {8:19} The 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. They hurried and set the city on fire. {8:20} When 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. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
{8:21} When 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. {8:22} The others came out of the city
against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side,
and some on that side. They struck them, so that they let none of them
remain or escape. {8:23} They captured the king of Ai alive, and
brought him to Joshua.

   {8:24} It 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 had 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. {8:25} All that fell that day, both of men and women,
were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. {8:26} For Joshua didn't
draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he
had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. {8:27} Only the
livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to
themselves, according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua.
{8:28} So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a
desolation, to this day. {8:29} He hanged the king of Ai on a tree
until the evening, and at the sundown Joshua commanded, and they took
his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate
of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to
this day.

   {8:30} Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in
Mount Ebal, {8:31} as 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. They
offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace
offerings. {8:32} He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of
Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. {8:33}
All 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 carried the ark of Yahweh's covenant, the foreigner as well 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. {8:34}
Afterward 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. {8:35} There
was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read
before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and
the foreigners who were among them.

   {9:1} It 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, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it {9:2} that they
gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with
one accord. {9:3} But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua
had done to Jericho and to Ai, {9:4} they 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, {9:5} and old
and patched shoes on their feet, and wore old garments. All the bread
of their provision was dry and moldy. {9:6} They went to Joshua to the
camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have
come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."

   {9:7} The men of Israel said to the Hivites, "What if you live among
us. How could we make a covenant with you?"

   {9:8} They said to Joshua, "We are your servants."

   Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"

   {9:9} They said to him, "Your servants have come from a very far
country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of
his fame, all that he did in Egypt, {9:10} and 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. {9:11} Our
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. Now make a covenant with us."' {9:12}
This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the
day we went out to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and has
become moldy. {9:13} These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and
behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old
because of the very long journey."

   {9:14} The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from
the mouth of Yahweh. {9:15} Joshua made peace with them, and made a
covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation
swore to them. {9:16} It 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. {9:17} The children of
Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their
cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. {9:18} The
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. {9:19} But 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. {9:20} This we will do
to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the oath
which we swore to them." {9:21} The princes said to them, "Let them
live, so they became wood cutters and drawers of water for all the
congregation, as the princes had spoken to them."

   {9:22} Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why
have you deceived us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you live
among us? {9:23} Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will
never fail to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water
for the house of my God."

   {9:24} They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were
certainly told how 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 very afraid for our lives because of you,
and have done this thing. {9:25} Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do
to us as it seems good and right to you to do."

   {9:26} He did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the
children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them. {9:27} That day
Joshua made them 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.

   {10:1} Now 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;
{10:2} that they were very afraid, 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. {10:3} Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem
sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king
of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, {10:4} "Come up to me,
and help me, and let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with
Joshua and with the children of Israel." {10:5} Therefore 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. {10:6} The men of
Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, "Don't abandon
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 have gathered
together against us."

   {10:7} So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war
with him, and all the mighty men of valor. {10:8} Yahweh said to
Joshua, "Don't fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands.
Not a man of them will stand before you."

   {10:9} Joshua therefore came on them suddenly. He went up from
Gilgal all night. {10:10} Yahweh 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. {10:11} It 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. There were more
who died from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed
with the sword.

   {10:12} Then Joshua spoke 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 still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley
of Aijalon!"

   {10:13} The 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. {10:14} There was no day like that before it
or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh
fought for Israel.

   {10:15} Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to
Gilgal. {10:16} These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave
at Makkedah. {10:17} Joshua was told, saying, "The five kings are
found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."

   {10:18} Joshua said, "Roll large stones to the mouth of the cave,
and set men by it to guard them; {10:19} but don't stay. Pursue your
enemies, and them from the rear. Don't allow them to enter into their
cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand."

   {10:20} It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had
finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were
consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the
fortified cities, {10:21} that all the people returned to the camp to
Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the
children of Israel. {10:22} Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the
cave, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me."

   {10:23} They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to
him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth,
the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. {10:24} It happened, when
they brought those kings out 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 their necks.

   {10:25} Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be
strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies
against whom you fight."

   {10:26} Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged
them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.
{10:27} It 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, which remain to this very day.

   {10:28} Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the
edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed them and all the
souls who were in it. He left none remaining. He did to the king of
Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

   {10:29} Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to
Libnah, and fought against Libnah. {10:30} Yahweh delivered it also,
with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of
the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left none remaining in
it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

   {10:31} Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to
Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it. {10:32} Yahweh
delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. He took it on the second
day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with all the souls who
were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah. {10:33} Then
Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and
his people, until he had left him none remaining.

   {10:34} Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to
Eglon; and they encamped against it fought against it. {10:35} They
took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. He
utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it that day, according to
all that he had done to Lachish.

   {10:36} Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to
Hebron; and they fought against it. {10:37} They took it, and struck it
with the edge of the sword, with its king and all its cities, and all
the souls who were in it. He left none remaining, according to all that
he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls
who were in it.

   {10:38} Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and
fought against it. {10:39} He took it, with its king and all its
cities. They struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed all the souls who were in it. 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. {10:40} So 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. {10:41} Joshua
struck them from Kadesh Barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of
Goshen, even to Gibeon. {10:42} Joshua took all these kings and their
land at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
{10:43} Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

   {11:1} It happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, that he
sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of
Achshaph, {11:2} and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill
country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the
heights of Dor on the west, {11:3} to the Canaanite on the east and on
the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the
Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land
of Mizpah. {11:4} They went out, they and all their armies with them,
many people, even as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude,
with very many horses and chariots. {11:5} All these kings met
together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom,
to fight with Israel.

   {11:6} Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them; for
tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel.
You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."

   {11:7} So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against
them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them. {11:8} Yahweh
delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and
chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley
of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them none
remaining. {11:9} Joshua did to them as Yahweh told him. He hamstrung
their horses and burnt their chariots with fire. {11:10} Joshua turned
back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword:
for Hazor used to be the head of all those kingdoms. {11:11} They
struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly
destroying them. There was no one left who breathed. He burnt Hazor
with fire. {11:12} Joshua captured all the cities of those kings, with
their kings, and he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded. {11:13} But
as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of
them, except Hazor only. Joshua burned that. {11:14} The children of
Israel took all the spoil of these cities, with the livestock, as
spoils for themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the
sword, until they had destroyed them. They didn't leave any who
breathed.

   {11:15} As Yahweh commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded
Joshua. Joshua did so. He left nothing undone of all that Yahweh
commanded Moses. {11:16} So Joshua captured all that land, the hill
country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, the
Arabah, the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
{11:17} from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the
valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon. He took all their kings, struck
them, and put them to death. {11:18} Joshua made war a long time with
all those kings. {11:19} There was not a city that made peace with the
children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They
took all in battle. {11:20} For it was of Yahweh to harden their
hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy
them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as
Yahweh commanded Moses. {11:21} Joshua came at that time, and cut off
the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab,
and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country
of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. {11:22}
There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of
Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. {11:23}
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to
Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to
their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.

   {12:1} Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of
Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the
sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the
Arabah eastward: {12:2} Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in
Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of
the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the
river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; {12:3} and the
Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the
Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on
the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: {12:4} and the border of Og king
of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at
Edrei, {12:5} and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all
Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half
Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.

   {12:6} Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck
them. Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. {12:7}
These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel
struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of
Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir. Joshua gave it to
the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
{12:8} in the hill country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and
in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Hittite,
the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the
Jebusite: {12:9} the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is
beside Bethel, one; {12:10} the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of
Hebron, one; {12:11} the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish,
one; {12:12} the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; {12:13}
the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; {12:14} the king of
Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; {12:15} the king of Libnah, one;
the king of Adullam, one; {12:16} the king of Makkedah, one; the king
of Bethel, one; {12:17} the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher,
one; {12:18} the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
{12:19} the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; {12:20} the
king of Shimron Meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; {12:21} the king
of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; {12:22} the king of Kedesh,
one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; {12:23} the king of Dor in the
height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one; {12:24} the king
of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.

   {13:1} Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to
him, "You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very
much land to be possessed.

   {13:2} "This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the
Philistines, and all the Geshurites; {13:3} from the Shihor, which is
before Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is counted
as Canaanite; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the
Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the
Avvim, {13:4} on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah
that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
{13:5} and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the
sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
{13:6} all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to
Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from
before the children of Israel: only allocate it to Israel for an
inheritance, as I have commanded you. {13:7} Now therefore divide this
land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half-tribe of
Manasseh." {13:8} With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received
their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward,
even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them: {13:9} from Aroer, that
is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the
middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon; {13:10} and
all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon,
to the border of the children of Ammon; {13:11} and Gilead, and the
border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all
Bashan to Salecah; {13:12} all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned
in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the
Rephaim); for Moses attacked these, and drove them out. {13:13}
Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the Geshurites,
nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of
Israel to this day. {13:14} Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of
Levi. The offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his
inheritance, as he spoke to him. {13:15} Moses gave to the tribe of the
children of Reuben according to their families. {13:16} Their border
was from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the
city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba;
{13:17} Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon,
Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon, {13:18} Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath, {13:19}
Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth Shahar in the mount of the valley, {13:20}
Beth Peor, the slopes of Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth, {13:21} all the cities
of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who
reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi,
Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
{13:22} The children of Israel alse killed Balaam also the son of Beor,
the soothsayer, with the sword, among the rest of their slain.

   {13:23} The border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the
Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to
their families, the cities and its villages.

   {13:24} Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad,
according to their families. {13:25} Their border was Jazer, and all
the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to
Aroer that is before Rabbah; {13:26} and from Heshbon to Ramath Mizpeh,
and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir; {13:27} and in
the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of
the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan's bank, to the
uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
{13:28} This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to
their families, the cities and its villages.

   {13:29} Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It
was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their
families. {13:30} Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the
kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in
Bashan, sixty cities. {13:31} Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the
cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir
the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir
according to their families.

   {13:32} These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the
plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward. {13:33} But to
the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance. Yahweh, the God of Israel,
is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.

   {14:1} These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took
in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun,
and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of
Israel, distributed to them, {14:2} by the lot of their inheritance, as
Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
{14:3} For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the
half-tribe beyond the Jordan; but to the Levites he gave no inheritance
among them. {14:4} For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh
and Ephraim: and they gave no portion to the Levites in the land,
except cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their livestock and
for their property. {14:5} The children of Israel did as Yahweh
commanded Moses, and they divided the land.

   {14:6} Then the children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal.
Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know the
thing that Yahweh spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and
concerning you in Kadesh Barnea. {14:7} I was forty years old when
Moses the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh Barnea to spy out the
land. I brought him word again as it was in my heart. {14:8}
Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the
people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God. {14:9} Moses swore on
that day, saying, 'Surely the land where you walked shall be an
inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you have
wholly followed Yahweh my God.'

   {14:10} "Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these
forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses,
while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five
years old, today. {14:11} As yet I am as strong today as I was in the
day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength
now for war, to go out and to come in. {14:12} Now therefore give me
this hill country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in
that day how the Anakim were there, and great and fortified cities. It
may be that Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as
Yahweh spoke."

   {14:13} Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh for an inheritance. {14:14} Therefore Hebron became the
inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day;
because he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel. {14:15} Now the
name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba, after the greatest man among
the Anakim. The land had rest from war.

   {15:1} The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to
their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin
southward, at the uttermost part of the south. {15:2} Their south
border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that
looks southward; {15:3} and it went out southward of the ascent of
Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of Kadesh
Barnea, and passed along by Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned about
to Karka; {15:4} and it passed along to Azmon, went out at the brook of
Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. This shall be your south
border. {15:5} The east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the
Jordan. The border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at
the end of the Jordan. {15:6} The border went up to Beth Hoglah, and
passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went up to the
stone of Bohan the son of Reuben. {15:7} The border went up to Debir
from the valley of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that
is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of
the river. The border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and
ended at En Rogel. {15:8} The border went up by the valley of the son
of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is
Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies
before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the farthest part of
the valley of Rephaim northward. {15:9} The border extended from the
top of the mountain to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went
out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border extended to Baalah
(the same is Kiriath Jearim); {15:10} and the border turned about from
Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount
Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth
Shemesh, and passed along by Timnah; {15:11} and the border went out to
the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to Shikkeron, and
passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and the goings
out of the border were at the sea. {15:12} The west border was to the
shore of the great sea. This is the border of the children of Judah
according to their families.

   {15:13} To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the
children of Judah, according to the commandment of Yahweh to Joshua,
even Kiriath Arba, named after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).
{15:14} Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman,
and Talmai, the children of Anak. {15:15} He went up against the
inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher.
{15:16} Caleb said, "He who strikes Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to
him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife." {15:17} Othniel the son of
Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his
daughter as wife. {15:18} It happened, when she came, that she had him
ask her father fore a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said,
"What do you want?"

   {15:19} She said, "Give me a blessing. Because you have set me in
the land of the South, give me also springs of water."

   He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

   {15:20} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Judah according to their families. {15:21} The farthest cities of the
tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South
were Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur, {15:22} Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah, {15:23}
Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan, {15:24} Ziph, Telem, Bealoth, {15:25} Hazor
Hadattah, Kerioth Hezron (the same is Hazor), {15:26} Amam, Shema,
Moladah, {15:27} Hazar Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth Pelet, {15:28} Hazar
Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah, {15:29} Baalah, Iim, Ezem, {15:30}
Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah, {15:31} Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah, {15:32}
Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. All the cities are twenty-nine, with
their villages. {15:33} In the lowland, Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah, {15:34}
Zanoah, En Gannim, Tappuah, Enam, {15:35} Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh,
Azekah, {15:36} Shaaraim, Adithaim and Gederah (or Gederothaim);
fourteen cities with their villages. {15:37} Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal
Gad, {15:38} Dilean, Mizpeh, Joktheel, {15:39} Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
{15:40} Cabbon, Lahmam, Chitlish, {15:41} Gederoth, Beth Dagon, Naamah,
and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages. {15:42} Libnah,
Ether, Ashan, {15:43} Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib, {15:44} Keilah, Achzib,
and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages. {15:45} Ekron, with its
towns and its villages; {15:46} from Ekron even to the sea, all that
were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages. {15:47} Ashdod, its
towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook
of Egypt, and the great sea with its coastline. {15:48} In the hill
country, Shamir, Jattir, Socoh, {15:49} Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which
is Debir), {15:50} Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim, {15:51} Goshen, Holon, and
Giloh; eleven cities with their villages. {15:52} Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
{15:53} Janim, Beth Tappuah, Aphekah, {15:54} Humtah, Kiriath Arba (the
same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages. {15:55}
Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Jutah, {15:56} Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah, {15:57}
Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages. {15:58}
Halhul, Beth Zur, Gedor, {15:59} Maarath, Beth Anoth, and Eltekon; six
cities with their villages. {15:60} Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath
Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their villages. {15:61} In the
wilderness, Beth Arabah, Middin, Secacah, {15:62} Nibshan, the City of
Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages.

   {15:63} As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah couldn't drive them out; but the Jebusites live with
the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

   {16:1} The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan
at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness,
going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel. {16:2} It
went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the
Archites to Ataroth; {16:3} and it went down westward to the border of
the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer;
and ended at the sea.

   {16:4} The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance. {16:5} This was the border of the children of Ephraim
according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward
was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper. {16:6} The border went out
westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward
to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah. {16:7} It
went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and
went out at the Jordan. {16:8} From Tappuah the border went along
westward to the brook of Kanah; and ended at the sea. This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their
families; {16:9} together with the cities which were set apart for the
children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of
Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. {16:10} They didn't drive
out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the
midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced
labor.

   {17:1} This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the
firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the
father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead
and Bashan. {17:2} So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh
according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, for the
children of Helek, for the children of Asriel, for the children of
Shechem, for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida:
these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph according to
their families. {17:3} But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of
Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but
daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah,
Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. {17:4} They came near before Eleazar the
priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes,
saying, "Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our
brothers." Therefore according to the commandment of Yahweh he gave
them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. {17:5} Ten
parts fell to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is
beyond the Jordan; {17:6} because the daughters of Manasseh had an
inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest of
the sons of Manasseh. {17:7} The border of Manasseh was from Asher to
Michmethath, which is before Shechem. The border went along to the
right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. {17:8} The land of
Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh
belonged to the children of Ephraim. {17:9} The border went down to the
brook of Kanah, southward of the brook. These cities belonged to
Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. The border of Manasseh was on the
north side of the brook, and ended at the sea. {17:10} Southward it was
Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border.
They reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.
{17:11} Manasseh had three heights in Issachar, in Asher Beth Shean and
its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its
towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and its towns, and the inhabitants
of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns.
{17:12} Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants
of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

   {17:13} It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong,
that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive
them out. {17:14} The children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, "Why
have you given me just one lot and one part for an inheritance, since I
am a great people, because Yahweh has blessed me so far?"

   {17:15} Joshua said to them, "If you are a great people, go up to
the forest, and clear land for yourself there in the land of the
Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill country of Ephraim is too
narrow for you."

   {17:16} The children of Joseph said, "The hill country is not enough
for us. All the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have
chariots of iron, both those who are in Beth Shean and its towns, and
those who are in the valley of Jezreel."

   {17:17} Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to
Manasseh, saying, "You are a great people, and have great power. You
shall not have one lot only; {17:18} but the hill country shall be
yours. Although it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and it's
farthest extent shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites,
though they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong."

   {18:1} The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there.
The land was subdued before them. {18:2} Seven tribes remained among
the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
{18:3} Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long will you
neglect to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, has given you? {18:4} Appoint for yourselves three men from
each tribe. I will send them, and they shall arise, walk through the
land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall
come to me. {18:5} They shall divide it into seven portions. Judah
shall live in his borders on the south, and the house of Joseph shall
live in their borders on the north. {18:6} You shall survey the land
into seven parts, and bring the description here to me; and I will cast
lots for you here before Yahweh our God. {18:7} For the Levites have no
portion among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance.
Gad, Reuben, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their
inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of
Yahweh gave them."

   {18:8} The men arose and went. Joshua commanded those who went to
survey the land, saying, "Go walk through the land, survey it, and come
again to me. I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh."

   {18:9} The men went and passed through the land, and surveyed it by
cities into seven portions in a book. They came to Joshua to the camp
at Shiloh. {18:10} Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh.
There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to
their divisions.

   {18:11} The lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
according to their families. The border of their lot went out between
the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. {18:12} Their border
on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the
side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country
westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven. {18:13} The border
passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is
Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the
mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower. {18:14} The
border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from
the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at
Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of
Judah. This was the west quarter. {18:15} The south quarter was from
the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and
went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah. {18:16} The border
went down to the farthest part of the mountain that lies before the
valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim
northward. It went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the
Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel. {18:17} It extended
northward, went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is
over against the ascent of Adummim. It went down to the stone of Bohan
the son of Reuben. {18:18} It passed along to the side over against the
Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah. {18:19} The border
passed along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the border ended
at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This
was the south border. {18:20} The Jordan was its border on the east
quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the
borders around it, according to their families. {18:21} Now the cities
of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families
were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz, {18:22} Beth Arabah, Zemaraim,
Bethel, {18:23} Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, {18:24} Chephar Ammoni, Ophni,
and Geba; twelve cities with their villages. {18:25} Gibeon, Ramah,
Beeroth, {18:26} Mizpeh, Chephirah, Mozah, {18:27} Rekem, Irpeel,
Taralah, {18:28} Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem),
Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the
inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

   {19:1} The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the
children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was
in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah. {19:2} They
had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah, {19:3} Hazar
Shual, Balah, Ezem, {19:4} Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah, {19:5} Ziklag, Beth
Marcaboth, Hazar Susah, {19:6} Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen
cities with their villages; {19:7} Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan; four
cities with their villages; {19:8} and all the villages that were
around these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
families. {19:9} Out of the part of the children of Judah was the
inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children
of Judah was too much for them. Therefore the children of Simeon had
inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

   {19:10} The third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according
to their families. The border of their inheritance was to Sarid.
{19:11} Their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to
Dabbesheth. It reached to the brook that is before Jokneam. {19:12} It
turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth
Tabor. It went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia. {19:13} From
there it passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Ethkazin; and it went
out at Rimmon which stretches to Neah. {19:14} The border turned around
it on the north to Hannathon; and it ended at the valley of Iphtah El;
{19:15} Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities
with their villages. {19:16} This is the inheritance of the children of
Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.

   {19:17} The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children
of Issachar according to their families. {19:18} Their border was to
Jezreel, Chesulloth, Shunem, {19:19} Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
{19:20} Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez, {19:21} Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah,
and Beth Pazzez. {19:22} The border reached to Tabor, Shahazumah, and
Beth Shemesh. Their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities with
their villages. {19:23} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Issachar according to their families, the cities with their
villages.

   {19:24} The fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of
Asher according to their families. {19:25} Their border was Helkath,
Hali, Beten, Achshaph, {19:26} Allammelech, Amad, Mishal. It reached to
Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath. {19:27} It turned toward the
sunrise to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of
Iphtah El northward to Beth Emek and Neiel. It went out to Cabul on the
left hand, {19:28} and Ebron, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah, even to great
Sidon. {19:29} The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of
Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region
of Achzib; {19:30} Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities
with their villages. {19:31} This is the inheritance of the tribe of
the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with
their villages.

   {19:32} The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even
for the children of Naphtali according to their families. {19:33} Their
border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, Adaminekeb, and
Jabneel, to Lakkum. It ended at the Jordan. {19:34} The border turned
westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok. It reached
to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah
at the Jordan toward the sunrise. {19:35} The fortified cities were
Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Chinnereth, {19:36} Adamah, Ramah,
Hazor, {19:37} Kedesh, Edrei, En Hazor, {19:38} Iron, Migdal El, Horem,
Beth Anath, and Beth Shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
{19:39} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.

   {19:40} The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of
Dan according to their families. {19:41} The border of their
inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh, {19:42} Shaalabbin, Aijalon,
Ithlah, {19:43} Elon, Timnah, Ekron, {19:44} Eltekeh, Gibbethon,
Baalath, {19:45} Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon, {19:46} Me Jarkon, and
Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa. {19:47} The border of the
children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up
and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of
the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan,
after the name of Dan their father. {19:48} This is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these
cities with their villages.

   {19:49} So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance
by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua
the son of Nun in their midst. {19:50} According to the commandment of
Yahweh, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the
hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.
{19:51} These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua
the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of
the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh
before Yahweh, at the door of the Tent of Meeting. So they made an end
of dividing the land.

   {20:1} Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, {20:2} "Speak to the children
of Israel, saying, 'Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to
you by Moses, {20:3} that the manslayer who kills any person
accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you
for a refuge from the avenger of blood. {20:4} He shall flee to one of
those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city,
and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They
shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he
may live among them. {20:5} If the avenger of blood pursue after him,
then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he
struck his neighbor unintentionally, and didn't hate him before. {20:6}
He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for
judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those
days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to
his own house, to the city he fled from.'"

   {20:7} They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of
Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the
same is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. {20:8} Beyond the Jordan
at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain
out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad,
and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. {20:9} These were the
appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who
lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might
flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he
stands before the congregation.

   {21:1} Then the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites came near to
Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of
fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel. {21:2} They
spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "Yahweh
commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for
our livestock."

   {21:3} The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their
inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with
their suburbs. {21:4} The lot came out for the families of the
Kohathites. The children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites,
had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, out of the tribe
of the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin. {21:5} The rest of
the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the
tribe of Ephraim, out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half-tribe of
Manasseh. {21:6} The children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out
of the families of the tribe of Issachar, out of the tribe of Asher,
out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in
Bashan. {21:7} The children of Merari according to their families had
twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, out of the tribe of Gad, and
out of the tribe of Zebulun. {21:8} The children of Israel gave these
cities with their suburbs by lot to the Levites, as Yahweh commanded by
Moses. {21:9} They gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and
out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are
mentioned by name: {21:10} and they were for the children of Aaron, of
the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for
theirs was the first lot. {21:11} They gave them Kiriath Arba, named
after the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill country of
Judah, with its suburbs around it. {21:12} But they gave the fields of
the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his
possession. {21:13} To the children of Aaron the priest they gave
Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah
with its suburbs, {21:14} Jattir with its suburbs, Eshtemoa with its
suburbs, {21:15} Holon with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,
{21:16} Ain with its suburbs, Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth Shemesh
with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. {21:17} Out of
the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
{21:18} Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four
cities. {21:19} All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,
were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

   {21:20} The families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, even
the rest of the children of Kohath, had the cities of their lot out of
the tribe of Ephraim. {21:21} They gave them Shechem with its suburbs
in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer,
and Gezer with its suburbs, {21:22} Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth
Horon with its suburbs; four cities. {21:23} Out of the tribe of Dan,
Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs, {21:24} Aijalon
with its suburbs, Gath Rimmon with its suburbs; four cities. {21:25}
Out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath
Rimmon with its suburbs; two cities. {21:26} All the cities of the
families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their
suburbs.

   {21:27} They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the
Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its
suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be Eshterah with its
suburbs; two cities. {21:28} Out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion with
its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, {21:29} Jarmuth with its
suburbs, En Gannim with its suburbs; four cities. {21:30} Out of the
tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs,
{21:31} Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four
cities. {21:32} Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with
its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, Hammothdor with its
suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three cities. {21:33} All the
cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen
cities with their suburbs.

   {21:34} To the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the
Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, Kartah
with its suburbs, {21:35} Dimnah with its suburbs, and Nahalal with its
suburbs; four cities. {21:36} Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with
its suburbs, Jahaz with its suburbs, {21:37} Kedemoth with its suburbs,
and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities. {21:38} Out of the tribe of
Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the
manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, {21:39} Heshbon with its
suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all. {21:40} All these
were the cities of the children of Merari according to their families,
even the rest of the families of the Levites. Their lot was twelve
cities.

   {21:41} All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession
of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
{21:42} Each of these cities included their suburbs around them. It was
this way with all these cities.

   {21:43} So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give
to their fathers. They possessed it, and lived in it. {21:44} Yahweh
gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their
fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh
delivered all their enemies into their hand. {21:45} Nothing failed of
any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel. All came
to pass.

   {22:1} Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, {22:2} and said to them, "You have kept all
that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my
voice in all that I commanded you. {22:3} You have not left your
brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of
the commandment of Yahweh your God. {22:4} Now Yahweh your God has
given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return
and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the
servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan. {22:5} Only take diligent
heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of
Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways,
to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with
all your heart and with all your soul."

   {22:6} So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to
their tents. {22:7} Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had
given inheritance in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among
their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent
them away to their tents, he blessed them, {22:8} and spoke to them,
saying, "Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much
livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very
much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers."

   {22:9} The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of
Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land
of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according
to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. {22:10} When they came to the
region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of
Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built
there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at. {22:11} The
children of Israel heard this, "Behold, the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in
the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on
the side that pertains to the children of Israel." {22:12} When the
children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children
of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them
to war. {22:13} The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben,
and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the
land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, {22:14} and
with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the
tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers'
houses among the thousands of Israel. {22:15} They came to the children
of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of
Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
{22:16} "Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, 'What trespass is
this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away
this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an
altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh? {22:17} Is the iniquity of
Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to
this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
{22:18} that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? It will
be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be
angry with the whole congregation of Israel. {22:19} However, if the
land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the
possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tabernacle dwells, and take
possession among us; but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against
us, in building an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God.
{22:20} Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted
thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man
didn't perish alone in his iniquity.'"

   {22:21} Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the
thousands of Israel, {22:22} "The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty
One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in
rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day),
{22:23} that we have built us an altar to turn away from following
Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer
sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.

   {22:24} "If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason,
saying, 'In time to come your children might speak to our children,
saying, "What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel? {22:25}
For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you
children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in
Yahweh."' So your children might make our children cease from fearing
Yahweh.

   {22:26} "Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an
altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; {22:27} but it will
be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us,
that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt
offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;' that
your children may not tell our children in time to come, 'You have no
portion in Yahweh.'

   {22:28} "Therefore we said, 'It shall be, when they tell us or our
generations this in time to come, that we shall say, "Behold the
pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt
offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'

   {22:29} "Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and
turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt
offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of
Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle!"

   {22:30} When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with
him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of
Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well. {22:31}
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben,
to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, "Today we know
that Yahweh is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this
trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel
out of the hand of Yahweh." {22:32} Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from
the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan,
to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. {22:33} The
thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel
blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to
destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of
Gad lived. {22:34} The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named
the altar "A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God."

   {23:1} It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to
Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well
advanced in years, {23:2} that Joshua called for all Israel, for their
elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their
officers, and said to them, "I am old and well advanced in years.
{23:3} You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these
nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for
you. {23:4} Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain,
to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the
nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going
down of the sun. {23:5} Yahweh your God will thrust them out from
before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess
their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.

   {23:6} "Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is
written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn aside from
it to the right hand or to the left; {23:7} that you not come among
these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the
name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor
bow down yourselves to them; {23:8} but hold fast to Yahweh your God,
as you have done to this day.

   {23:9} "For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from
before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
{23:10} One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your
God who fights for you, as he spoke to you. {23:11} Take good heed
therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

   {23:12} "But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant
of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages
with them, and go in to them, and they to you; {23:13} know for a
certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from
out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a
scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from
off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

   {23:14} "Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know
in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed
of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All
have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it. {23:15} It shall
happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh
your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things,
until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your
God has given you, {23:16} when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your
God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down
yourselves to them. Then the anger of Yahweh will  be kindled against
you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has
given to you."

   {24:1} Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and
called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and
for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. {24:2}
Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel,
'Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the
father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
{24:3} I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him
throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave
him Isaac. {24:4} I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau
Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

   {24:5} "'I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to
that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out. {24:6}
I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The
Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to
the [7>]Red Sea[<7]. {24:7} When they cried out to Yahweh, he put
darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them,
and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived
in the wilderness many days.

   {24:8} "'I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived
beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your
hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
{24:9} Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought
against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;
{24:10} but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you
still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

   {24:11} "'You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of
Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite,
the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I
delivered them into your hand. {24:12} I sent the hornet before you,
which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the
Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow. {24:13} I gave you a
land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn't build,
and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you
didn't plant.'

   {24:14} "Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and
in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River,
in Egypt; and serve Yahweh. {24:15} If it seems evil to you to serve
Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which
your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will
serve Yahweh."

   {24:16} The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should
forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods; {24:17} for it is Yahweh our God
who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the
house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and
preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples
through the midst of whom we passed. {24:18} Yahweh drove out from
before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land.
Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God."

   {24:19} Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve Yahweh; for he
is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your
disobedience nor your sins. {24:20} If you forsake Yahweh, and serve
foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after
he has done you good."

   {24:21} The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Yahweh."
{24:22} Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against
yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him."

   They said, "We are witnesses."

   {24:23} "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among
you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."

   {24:24} The people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God,
and we will listen to his voice."

   {24:25} So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made
for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. {24:26} Joshua wrote
these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone,
and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
{24:27} Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a
witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he
spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny
your God." {24:28} So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his
inheritance.

   {24:29} It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun,
the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
{24:30} They buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of
the mountain of Gaash. {24:31} Israel served Yahweh all the days of
Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had
known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel. {24:32}
They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought
up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought
of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of
money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. {24:33}
Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas
his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.





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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "Yahweh" is God's proper Name, sometimes rendered "LORD" (all
caps) in other translations.

[2] {1:9} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."

[3] {2:10} or, Sea of Reeds

[4] {3:11} The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."

[5] {4:23} or, Sea of Reeds

[6] {5:9} "Gilgal" sounds like the Hebrew for "roll."

[7] {24:6} or, Sea of Reeds

