
Joshua

   

   {1:1} Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of
Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister,
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 do give to
them, even to the children of Israel. {1:3} Every place that the sole
of your foot shall tread on, to you have I given it, as I spoke to
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}
There shall not any man 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 of good courage; 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 thereon
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 of good courage; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh
your God 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} To the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh,
spoke Joshua, 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
cattle, shall abide 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 have given your
brothers rest, as [he has given] you, and they also have 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} According as we listened to
Moses in all things, so will we listen to you: only Yahweh your God be
with you, as he was with Moses. {1:18} Whoever he be who shall rebel
against your commandment, and shall not listen to your words in all
that you command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of
good courage.

   {2:1} Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies
secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. They went and came
into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
{2:2} It was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men
in here tonight of the children of Israel to search out the land. {2:3}
The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men who are
come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to
search out all the land. {2:4} The woman took the two men, and hid
them; and she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know whence
they were: {2:5} and 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 after 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 after them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as
those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate. {2:8}
Before they were 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 is 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 Red Sea 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 did melt, 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, and my
mother, and 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 utter this our business; 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, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light on
you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be
returned: and afterward may you 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 did let us down by: and
you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your mother,
and your brothers, and all your father's household. {2:19} It shall be,
that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street,
his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever
shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any
hand be on him. {2:20} But if you utter this our business, 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: and she bound the scarlet line in the window. {2:22}
They went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until
the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all
the way, but didn't find them. {2:23} Then the two men returned, and
descended from the mountain, and 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; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before
us.

   {3:1} Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from
Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and
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 remove from your place, and go after 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 heretofore. {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, This day will I 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 are 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 out from before you the
Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the
Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite. {3:11} Behold, the ark
of the covenant of the Lord 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, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the
waters of the Jordan shall 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 removed 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 were come to the Jordan, and the
feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink 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: and 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 midst of the Jordan; and all Israel
passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over
the Jordan.

   {4:1} It happened, when all the nation were clean 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 you them,
saying, Take hence out of the midst 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 shall lodge
this night. {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} and
Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into
the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his
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: and these stones
shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever. {4:8} The
children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve
stones out of the midst 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 midst 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 midst 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 ready 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 were come up out
of the midst 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} Those twelve
stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
{4:21} He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children
shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these
stones? {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 were passed over,
as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before
us, until we were 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 were 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 you 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 cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people who came
forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in
the wilderness by the way, after they came forth 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 forth out of
Egypt, they had not 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 forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they
didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore 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, them did Joshua circumcise:
for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by
the way. {5:8} It happened, when they had done circumcising all the
nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, until they were
whole. {5:9} Yahweh said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
reproach of Egypt from off you. Therefore the name of that place was
called Gilgal, to this day. {5:10} The children of Israel encamped in
Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month
at even in the plains of Jericho. {5:11} They ate of the produce of the
land on the next day after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched
grain, in the same day. {5:12} The manna ceased on the next day, after
they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of
Israel 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, there stood a man over
against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and 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 did worship, and said to him, What
says my lord to his servant? {5:15} The prince of Yahweh's army said to
Joshua, Put off your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you
stand is holy. Joshua did so.

   {6:1} Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of
Israel: none went out, and none came in. {6:2} Yahweh said to Joshua,
Behold, I have given into your hand Jericho, and the king of it, and
the mighty men of valor. {6:3} You shall compass the city, all the men
of war, going about the city once. Thus shall you do six days. {6:4}
Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark:
and the seventh day you shall compass 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, Pass on, and compass the city, and let
the armed men pass on before the ark of Yahweh. {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 passed on, 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
rearward went after the ark, [the priests] blowing the trumpets 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 bid you shout; then shall you shout. {6:11} So
he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going about it once:
and 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; and the rearward came after the ark of Yahweh,
[the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went. {6:14} The second day
they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did
six days. {6:15} It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early
at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner
seven times: only on the day they compassed 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
therein, 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 the treasury of Yahweh. {6:20} So the
people shouted, and [the priests] blew the trumpets; and 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 there the
woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her. {6:23} The young men
the spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her
mother, and her brothers, and all that she had; all her relatives also
they brought out; and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
{6:24} They burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein; only
the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they
put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh. {6:25} But Rahab the
prostitute, and her father's household, and all that she had, did
Joshua save alive; and 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 charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be
the man before Yahweh, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: with
the loss of his firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with
the loss of his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. {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
thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah,
of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the anger of
Yahweh was kindled against the children of Israel. {7:2} 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 they are but few. {7:4} So there went up there of the people
about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. {7:5} The
men of Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased them
[from] before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the
descent; and the hearts of the people melted, and became as 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 at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into
the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been
content and lived beyond the Jordan! {7:8} 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 compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and
what will you do for your great name? {7:10} Yahweh said to Joshua, Get
you up; why are you thus fallen on your face? {7:11} Israel has sinned;
yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them:
yes, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen,
and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff.
{7:12} Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their
enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are
become accursed: I will not be with you any more, except you destroy
the devoted thing from among you. {7:13} Up, sanctify the people, and
say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says Yahweh, the
God of Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel;
you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted
thing from among you. {7:14} In the morning therefore you shall be
brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which
Yahweh takes shall come near by families; and the family which Yahweh
shall take shall come near by households; and the household which
Yahweh shall take shall come near man by man. {7:15} 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 folly in Israel. {7:16} So Joshua rose up early
in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and the tribe
of Judah was taken: {7:17} and he brought near the family of Judah; and
he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the family of
the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: {7:18} and he brought
near his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of
Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. {7:19}
Joshua said to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of
Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done;
don't hide it from me. {7:20} Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a
truth I have sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and thus and
thus have I done: {7:21} when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonian
mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty
shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they
are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
{7:22} So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and,
behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. {7:23} They
took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and
to all the children of Israel; and they laid them down before Yahweh.
{7:24} Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah,
and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons,
and his daughters, and his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and
his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up to the valley
of Achor. {7:25} Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall
trouble you this day. All Israel stoned him with stones; and they
burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones. {7:26} They raised
over him a great heap of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from
the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was
called "The valley of Achor" to this day.

   {8:1} 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, and his people, and his city,
and his land; {8:2} You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to
Jericho and her king: only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, shall
you take for a prey to yourselves: set you an ambush for the city
behind it. {8:3} So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up
to Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of
valor, and sent them forth by night. {8:4} 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 be all ready: {8:5} and 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} and they will come out after us, until we have drawn
them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at
the first: so we will flee before them; {8:7} 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; according to the word
of Yahweh shall you do: behold, I have commanded you. {8:9} Joshua sent
them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between
Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night
among the people. {8:10} Joshua arose up early in the morning, and
mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before
the people to Ai. {8:11} 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 liers-in-wait who were 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: and they pursued after 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: and they left the city open, and
pursued after 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; and 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: and 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 forth
out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some
on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they
let none of them remain or escape. {8:23} The king of Ai they took
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 were all fallen by the
edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned
to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword. {8:25} 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 cattle 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} The king of Ai he
hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun
Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast
it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great
heap of stones, to this day. {8:30} 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: and they offered thereon burnt offerings 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 bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, as
well the foreigner as the native; half of them in front of Mount
Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as Moses the servant
of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people
of Israel. {8:34} 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, and the women,
and 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, and 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 wine-skins, old and torn and bound up,
{9:5} and old and patched shoes on their feet, and old garments on
them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become
moldy. {9:6} They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to
him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now
therefore make you a covenant with us. {9:7} The men of Israel said to
the Hivites, What if you dwell among us; and how shall we make a
covenant with you? {9:8} They said to Joshua, We are your servants.
Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from whence come you? {9:9} They
said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of
the name of Yahweh your God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all
that he did in Egypt, {9:10} 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: and now make you a covenant with us. {9:12} This our
bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we
came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become
moldy: {9:13} and these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and,
behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become
old by reason of the very long journey. {9:14} The men took of their
provision, and didn't ask counsel at the mouth of Yahweh. {9:15} Joshua
made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live:
and 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, and Chephirah, and
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 to 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 dwell
among us? {9:23} Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall never
fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water
for the house of my God. {9:24} They answered Joshua, and said, Because
it was certainly told your servants, how that Yahweh your God commanded
his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the
inhabitants of the land from before you; therefore we were sore afraid
for our lives because of you, and have done this thing. {9:25} Now,
behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to
us, do. {9:26} So did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of
the children of Israel, that they didn't kill them. {9:27} That day
Joshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the
congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place
which he should choose.

   {10:1} 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 feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as
one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all
the men of it were mighty. {10:3} Therefore Adoni-zedek king of
Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth,
and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
{10:4} 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
slack your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us,
and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the
hill-country are gathered together against us. {10:7} 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; there shall not a man of them stand
before you. {10:9} Joshua therefore came on them suddenly; [for] he
went up from Gilgal all the 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: they were
more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel
killed with the sword. {10:12} Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in the day
when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel;
and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still on Gibeon;
You, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. {10:13} 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} It was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found,
hidden in the cave at Makkedah. {10:18} Joshua said, Roll great stones
to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them: {10:19} but
don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them;
don't allow them to enter into their cities: for Yahweh your God has
delivered them into your hand. {10:20} It happened, when Joshua and the
children of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great
slaughter, until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of
them had entered into the fortified cities, {10:21} 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 said Joshua,
Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to me out
of the cave. {10:23} They did so, and brought forth those five kings to
him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the
king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon. {10:24} It
happened, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua
called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of
war who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these
kings. They came near, and put their feet on the necks of them. {10:25}
Joshua said to them, Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of
good courage: for thus shall Yahweh do to all your enemies against whom
you fight. {10:26} Afterward Joshua struck them, and put them to death,
and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging on the trees until
the evening. {10:27} 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, to this very day. {10:28} Joshua
took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword,
and the king of it: he utterly destroyed them and all the souls who
were therein; he left none remaining; and he did to the king of
Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho. {10:29} Joshua passed
from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against
Libnah: {10:30} and Yahweh delivered it also, and the king of it, into
the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and
all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he
did to the king of it 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} and Yahweh
delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second
day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who
were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah. {10:33} 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, and fought against it; {10:35} and they took it on that
day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who
were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he
had done to Lachish. {10:36} Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel
with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it: {10:37} and they took
it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it, and
all the cities of it, and all the souls who were therein; he left none
remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly
destroyed it, and all the souls who were therein. {10:38} Joshua
returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it:
{10:39} and he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it;
and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed
all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done
to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king of it; as he had done
also to Libnah, and to the king of it. {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} All these kings and their land did
Joshua take 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, and to the king of Shimron, and to the
king of Achshaph, {11:2} and to the kings who were on the north, in the
hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and 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, much people, even as the sand that is on the
sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. {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 will I
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; and they struck
them, until they left them none remaining. {11:9} Joshua did to them as
Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their chariots
with fire. {11:10} Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and
struck the king of it with the sword: for Hazor before was the head of
all those kingdoms. {11:11} They struck all the souls who were therein
with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none
left who breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire. {11:12} All the cities
of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, 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, save Hazor
only; that did Joshua burn. {11:14} All the spoil of these cities, and
the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but
every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had
destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed. {11:15} As Yahweh
commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua: and so did
Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses.
{11:16} So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the
South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and
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: and all their kings he took, and 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, save 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 was 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 city that is in] 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: and 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; and 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 stricken in years; and Yahweh
said to him, You are old and well stricken in years, and there remains
yet very much land to be possessed. {13:2} This is the land that yet
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 reckoned to the Canaanites; 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 allot you 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 these did Moses
strike, 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 to the
tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; 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, and Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal
Meon, {13:18} and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, {13:19} and
Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley,
{13:20} and Beth Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
{13:21} and 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, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the
princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. {13:22} Balaam also the son of
Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel kill with the sword
among the rest of their slain. {13:23} The border of the children of
Reuben was the Jordan, and the border [of it]. This was the inheritance
of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and
the villages of it. {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, and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth,
and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the
Jordan and the border [of it], 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 the
villages of it. {13:29} Moses gave [inheritance] to the half-tribe of
Manasseh: and 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} and half Gilead, and
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, and 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, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for their
cattle and for their substance. {14:5} As Yahweh commanded Moses, so
the children of Israel did; and they divided the land. {14:6} Then the
children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal: and 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} Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of
Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and 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 whereon your foot has trodden 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: and now, behold, I am
this day eighty-five years old. {14:11} As yet I am as strong this day
as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so
is my strength now, for war, and 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 cities great
and fortified: 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 that he wholly followed Yahweh, the
God of Israel. {14:15} Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba;
[which Arba was] 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, and went up to Addar, and
turned about to Karka; {15:4} and it passed along to Azmon, and went
out at the brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were 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}
and 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} and 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; and the
border passed along to the waters of En Shemesh, and the goings out of
it were at En Rogel; {15:8} and 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 uttermost part of
the valley of Rephaim northward; {15:9} and 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 great sea, and the border [of it]. This is the border
of the children of Judah round about 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, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is
Hebron). {15:14} Caleb drove out there the three sons of Anak: Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. {15:15} He went up there
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 [to
him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted
from off her donkey; and Caleb said, What would you? {15:19} She said,
Give me a blessing; for that 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 uttermost
cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom
in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, {15:22} and Kinah, and
Dimonah, and Adadah, {15:23} and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, {15:24}
Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, {15:25} Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron
(the same is Hazor), {15:26} Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, {15:27} and
Hazar Gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth Pelet, {15:28} and Hazar Shual, and
Beersheba, and Biziothiah, {15:29} Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem, {15:30}
and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah, {15:31} and Ziklag, and Madmannah,
and Sansannah, {15:32} and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon:
all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages. {15:33} In the
lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah, {15:34} and Zanoah, and En
Gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, {15:35} Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and
Azekah, {15:36} and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and
Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages. {15:37} Zenan, and
Hadashah, and Migdal-gad, {15:38} and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
{15:39} Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, {15:40} and Cabbon, and
Lahmam, and Chitlish, {15:41} and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and Naamah, and
Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages. {15:42} Libnah, and
Ether, and Ashan, {15:43} and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib, {15:44}
and Keilah, and 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, and the border [of
it]. {15:48} In the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
{15:49} and Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the same is Debir), {15:50} and
Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, {15:51} and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh;
eleven cities with their villages. {15:52} Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan,
{15:53} and Janim, and Beth Tappuah, and Aphekah, {15:54} and Humtah,
and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their
villages. {15:55} Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah, {15:56} and
Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah, {15:57} Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten
cities with their villages. {15:58} Halhul, Beth Zur, and Gedor,
{15:59} and Maarath, and 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, and Secacah, {15:62} and Nibshan, and 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 dwell 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} and 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 the goings out of it were at the sea. {16:4} The children of
Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. {16:5} The border
of the children of Ephraim according to their families was [thus]: the
border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon
the upper; {16:6} and the border went out westward at Michmethath on
the north; and the border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and
passed along it on the east of Janoah; {16:7} and it went down from
Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out
at the Jordan. {16:8} From Tappuah the border went along westward to
the brook of Kanah; and the goings out of it were 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 are 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 [the lot] was for the rest of the children of
Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, and
for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the
children of Shechem, and 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, and 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}
There fell ten parts 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; and 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: and the border of
Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out of it
were at the sea: {17:10} southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it
was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher
on the north, and to Issachar on the east. {17:11} Manasseh had in
Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its
towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of
En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and
the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights.
{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 but one lot and one part for an
inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has
blessed me? {17:15} Joshua said to them, If you are a great people, go
up to the forest, and cut down 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: and all the Canaanites who dwell in the land of
the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are in Beth-shean and
its towns, and they 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; for though it is
a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings out of it 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:
and the land was subdued before them. {18:2} There remained among the
children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their
inheritance. {18:3} Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are
you slack to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your
fathers, has given you? {18:4} Appoint for you three men of each tribe:
and I will send them, and they shall arise, and 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 abide
in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in
their border on the north. {18:6} You shall describe the land into
seven portions, 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:
and Gad and 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: and Joshua charged
those who went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the
land, and describe it, and come again to me; and I will cast lots for
you here before Yahweh in Shiloh. {18:9} The men went and passed
through the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a
book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. {18:10} Joshua
cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh: and 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: and 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; and the border went up
to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the
hill-country westward; and the goings out of it were 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; and 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 [there], and turned about on the
west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon
southward; and the goings out of it were 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 uttermost part of
Kiriath Jearim; and the border went out westward, and went out to the
spring of the waters of Nephtoah; {18:16} and the border went down to
the uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the
son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went
down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward,
and went down to En Rogel; {18:17} and it extended northward, and went
out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the
ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of
Reuben; {18:18} and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah
northward, and went down to the Arabah; {18:19} and the border passed
along to the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the goings out of the
border were 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 the border of
it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of
Benjamin, by the borders of it round about, according to their
families. {18:21} Now the cities of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth Hoglah, and
Emek Keziz, {18:22} and Beth Arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel, {18:23}
and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah, {18:24} and Chephar Ammoni, and
Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages: {18:25} Gibeon, and
Ramah, and Beeroth, {18:26} and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
{18:27} and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, {18:28} and Zelah, Eleph,
and 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: and their inheritance
was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Judah. {19:2}
They had for their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, {19:3}
and Hazar Shual, and Balah, and Ezem, {19:4} and Eltolad, and Bethul,
and Hormah, {19:5} and Ziklag, and Beth Marcaboth, and Hazar Susah,
{19:6} and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities with their
villages: {19:7} Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with
their villages: {19:8} and all the villages that were round about 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; and the border of
their inheritance was to Sarid; {19:11} and their border went up
westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to
the brook that is before Jokneam; {19:12} and it turned from Sarid
eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth Tabor; and it
went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia; {19:13} and from there it
passed along eastward to Gath Hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went out at
Rimmon which stretches to Neah; {19:14} and the border turned about it
on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out of it were at the valley
of Iphtah El; {19:15} and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and
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, and Chesulloth, and
Shunem, {19:19} and Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, {19:20} and
Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez, {19:21} and Remeth, and Engannim, and
En Haddah, and Beth Pazzez, {19:22} and the border reached to Tabor,
and Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border
were 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, and Hali, and Beten, and
Achshaph, {19:26} and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached
to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath; {19:27} and 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; and it went out to Cabul on
the left hand, {19:28} and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah,
even to great Sidon; {19:29} and the border turned to Ramah, and to the
fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings
out of it were 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, and Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, to
Lakkum; and the goings out of it were at the Jordan; {19:34} and the
border turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to
Hukkok; and 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, and Hammath, Rakkath, and
Chinnereth, {19:36} and Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor, {19:37} and
Kedesh, and Edrei, and En Hazor, {19:38} Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem,
and 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, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh, {19:42} and Shaalabbin, and
Aijalon, and Ithlah, {19:43} and Elon, and Timnah, and Ekron, {19:44}
and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, {19:45} and Jehud, and
Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon, {19:46} and 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 the borders of it; and the children of Israel gave
an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of them: {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 therein. {19:51} These are the inheritances, which
Eleazar the priest, and 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 you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to
you by Moses, {20:3} that the manslayer who kills any person
unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there: and 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; and they
shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that he may
dwell 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 unawares, and didn't hate him before. {20:6} He
shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for
judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those
days: then shall the manslayer return, and come to his own city, and to
his own house, to the city from whence he fled. {20:7} They set apart
Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and 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, and 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 stranger who
sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might
flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he
stood before the congregation.

   {21:1} Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites
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}
and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, Yahweh
commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it
for our cattle. {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: and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the
Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of
the Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
{21:5} The rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the
families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out
of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities. {21:6} The children of
Gershon had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar, and
out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of
the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities. {21:7} The
children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of
Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun,
twelve cities. {21:8} The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites
these cities with their suburbs, 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 [here]
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, [which
Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the hill-country
of Judah, with the suburbs of it round about it. {21:12} But the fields
of the city, and the villages of it, gave they 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, and Libnah with its suburbs, {21:14} and Jattir with its
suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, {21:15} and Holon with its
suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs, {21:16} and Ain with its suburbs,
and 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, they 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} and
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} To the children of Gershon,
of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they
gave] 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, and 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, and
Kartah with its suburbs, {21:35} Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with
its suburbs; four cities. {21:36} Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer
with its suburbs, and 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; and 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} These cities were every one with their suburbs round
about them: thus it was with all these cities. {21:43} So Yahweh gave
to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and
they possessed it, and lived therein. {21:44} Yahweh gave them rest
round about, according to all that he swore to their fathers: and there
stood not a man of all their enemies before them; Yahweh delivered all
their enemies into their hand. {21:45} There failed not anything of any
good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to
pass.

   {22:1} Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and 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 kept the charge 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 turn you, and
get you 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, and to walk in all his
ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave 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, and with very much cattle, with silver, and
with gold, and with brass, and 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 on. {22:11} The children of
Israel heard say, 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 you 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? and it will be, seeing 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
be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in
which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but don't
rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar
besides 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? and 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 he shall know: if it be 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 thereon burnt offering or meal-offering, or if
to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Yahweh himself
require it; {22:24} and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done
this, [and] of purpose, 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 might your children make our children cease from
fearing Yahweh. {22:26} Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build
us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: {22:27} but it
shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations
after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh before him with our
burnt offerings, and 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 said we, It shall be, when they
so tell us or to our generations 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 tent. {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, and to the children of Gad, and
to the children of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is in the
midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against
Yahweh: now have you 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 called the altar [Ed]: For,
[said they], it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.

   {23:1} It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to
Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well
stricken 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 stricken in years: {23:3}
and you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these
nations because of you; for Yahweh your God, he it is that 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, he will thrust them out from
before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and you shall
possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you. {23:6} Therefore
be you 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 cleave to Yahweh your God, as you have
done to this day. {23:9} For Yahweh has driven out from before you
great nations and strong: but as for you, no man has stood before you
to this day. {23:10} One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Yahweh
your God, he it is 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} Else if you do at all go back, and cleave 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 more drive these nations from out of your
sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and 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, this day
I am going the way of all the earth: and 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 are happen to
you, not one thing has failed of it. {23:15} It shall happen, that as
all the good things are come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to
you, so will Yahweh bring on you all the evil things, until he have
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 will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and you
shall 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, and for their heads, and 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: and 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 the midst of it: and afterward I
brought you out. {24:6} I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you
came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with
chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea. {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, and 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: and 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: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the
Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and 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 dwell therein; of
vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant do you eat. {24:14}
Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and
put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in
Egypt; and serve you Yahweh. {24:15} If it seem evil to you to serve
Yahweh, choose you 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 Yahweh our God,
he it is 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} and 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 that 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 you Yahweh, to serve him. They said, We
are witnesses. {24:23} Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign
gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of
Israel. {24:24} The people said to Joshua, Yahweh our God will we
serve, and to his voice will we listen. {24:25} So Joshua made a
covenant with the people that day, and set 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 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} The bones of Joseph, which the
children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they 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: and they became the
inheritance of the children of Joseph. {24:33} Eleazar the son of Aaron
died; and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was
given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

   

   

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