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1:1 And it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of
 Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses'
 attendant, saying,
1:2 Moses my servant is dead; and now, rise up, go over this
 Jordan, thou and all this people, into the land which I give
 unto them, to the children of Israel.
1:3 Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread have I
 given to you, as I said unto Moses.
1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the
 river Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great
 sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
1:5 None shall be able to stand before thee all the days of thy
 life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee; I will not
 leave thee, neither will I forsake thee.
1:6 Be strong and courageous, for thou shalt cause this people
 to inherit the land which I have sworn unto their fathers to
 give them.
1:7 Only be strong and very courageous, that thou mayest take
 heed to do according to all the law that Moses my servant
 commanded thee. Turn not from it to the right or to the left,
 that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
1:8 This book of the law shall not depart from thy mouth; and
 thou shalt meditate upon it day and night, that thou mayest
 take heed to do according to all that is written therein; for
 then shalt thou have good success in thy ways, and then shalt
 thou prosper.
1:9 Have I not commanded thee: Be strong and courageous? Be not
 afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah thy God is with thee
 whithersoever thou goest.
1:10 And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
1:11 Go through the midst of the camp, and command the people,
 saying, Prepare yourselves victuals, for in three days ye shall
 pass over this Jordan, that ye may enter in to take possession
 of the land which Jehovah your God giveth you to possess it.
1:12 And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to half the
 tribe of Manasseh spoke Joshua, saying,
1:13 Remember the word that Moses the servant of Jehovah
 commanded you, saying, Jehovah your God has given you rest and
 has given you this land.
1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall abide
 in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan, but
 ye, all the valiant men, shall go over in array before your
 brethren and help them,
1:15 until Jehovah give your brethren rest as to you, and they
 also take possession of the land which Jehovah your God giveth
 them; then shall ye return into the land of your possession and
 possess it, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you on this
 side of the Jordan toward the sun-rising.
1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast
 commanded us will we do, and whither thou shalt send us will we
 go.
1:17 According as we hearkened to Moses in all things, so will
 we hearken to thee; only may Jehovah thy God be with thee as he
 was with Moses.
1:18 Every one that is rebellious against thy commandment and
 hearkeneth not to thy words in everything that thou commandest
 us, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.
2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent from Shittim two spies
 secretly, saying, Go, see the land, even Jericho. And they
 went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and they lay
 down there.
2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, men
 have come hither to-night from the children of Israel to search
 out the land.
2:3 And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth
 the men that have come to thee, who have come into thy house:
 for they have come to search out all the land.
2:4 And the woman had taken and concealed the two men; and she
 said, Yes, the men did come unto me, but I knew not whence they
 were;
2:5 and it came to pass when the gate had to be closed, at dark,
 that the men went out: I know not whither the men have gone.
 Pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
2:6 But she had taken them up to the roof, and secreted them
 under the stalks of flax, which she had laid out on the roof.
2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan, to the
 fords; and when they who pursued after them had gone out, they
 closed the gate.
2:8 And before they had lain down, she went up to them upon the
 roof;
2:9 and said to the men, I know that Jehovah has given you the
 land, and that the dread of you has fallen on us, and that all
 the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
2:10 For we have heard that Jehovah dried up the waters of the
 Red sea before you when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did
 to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond the Jordan,
 to Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
2:11 We heard [of it], and our heart melted, and there remained
 no more spirit in any man because of you; for Jehovah your God,
 he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
2:12 And now, I pray you, swear to me by Jehovah, since I have
 dealt kindly with you, that ye will also deal kindly with my
 father's house, and give me a certain sign,
2:13 that ye will let my father live, and my mother, and my
 brethren, and my sisters, and all that belong to them, and
 deliver our souls from death.
2:14 And the men said to her, Our lives shall pay for yours, if
 ye do not make this our business known; and it shall be when
 Jehovah shall give us the land, that we will deal kindly and
 truly with thee.
2:15 And she let them down by a cord through the window; for her
 house was upon the city-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
2:16 And she said to them, Go to the mountain, that the pursuers
 may not meet with you; and hide yourselves there three days,
 until the pursuers have returned; and afterwards go your way.
2:17 And the men said to her, We will be quit of this thine oath
 which thou hast made us swear.
2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind in the
 window this line of scarlet thread by which thou hast let us
 down; and thou shalt gather to thee in the house thy father,
 and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's
 household;
2:19 and it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of
 thy house into the street, -- his blood shall be upon his head,
 and we shall be innocent; but every one who shall be with thee
 in the house, his blood shall be upon our head, if any hand be
 upon him.
2:20 And if thou make known this our business, we will be quit
 of thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
2:21 And she said, According to your words, so be it. And she
 sent them away, and they departed. And she bound the scarlet
 line in the window.
2:22 And they went, and came to the mountain, and remained there
 three days, until the pursuers had returned; and the pursuers
 sought them all the way, and found them not.
2:23 And the two men returned and came down from the mountain,
 and went over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and related to
 him everything that had happened to them.
2:24 And they said to Joshua, Of a surety Jehovah has given the
 whole land into our hands, and even all the inhabitants of the
 land faint because of us.
3:1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from
 Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of
 Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
3:2 And it came to pass at the end of three days, that the
 officers went through the camp;
3:3 and they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark
 of the covenant of Jehovah your God, and the priests the
 Levites bearing it, then remove from your place, and go after
 it;
3:4 yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about two
 thousand cubits by measure. Ye shall not come near it, that ye
 may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed
 this way heretofore.
3:5 And Joshua said to the people, Hallow yourselves; for
 to-morrow Jehovah will do wonders in your midst.
3:6 And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of
 the covenant, and go over before the people. And they took up
 the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
3:7 And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify
 thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I
 was with Moses, so will I be with thee.
3:8 And thou shalt command the priests who bear the ark of the
 covenant, saying, When ye come to the edge of the waters of the
 Jordan, stand still in the Jordan.
3:9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and
 hear the words of Jehovah your God.
3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby shall ye know that the living ∙God
 is in your midst, and [that] he will without fail dispossess
 from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
 Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the
 Amorites, and the Jebusites.
3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the
 earth is going over before you into the Jordan.
3:12 And now take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel,
 one man for each tribe.
3:13 And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of
 the priests who bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the
 earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the
 Jordan, the waters flowing down from above, shall be cut off,
 and shall stand up in a heap.
3:14 And it came to pass when the people removed from their
 tents, to pass over the Jordan, that the priests bearing the
 ark of the covenant were before the people;
3:15 and when they that bore the ark were come to the Jordan,
 and the feet of the priests who bore the ark dipped in the edge
 of the water (and the Jordan is full over all its banks
 throughout the days of harvest),
3:16 the waters which flowed down from above stood [and] rose up
 in a heap, very far, by Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan;
 and those that flowed down towards the sea of the plain, the
 salt sea, were completely cut off. And the people went over
 opposite to Jericho.
3:17 And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah
 stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan. And all
 Israel went over on dry ground, until all the nation had
 completely gone over the Jordan.
4:1 And it came to pass when the whole nation had completely
 gone over the Jordan, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,
4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, one man out of every
 tribe,
4:3 and command them, saying, Take up hence out of the midst of
 the Jordan, from 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 ye shall lodge this night.
4:4 And Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had appointed of
 the children of Israel, a man out of every tribe;
4:5 and Joshua said to them, Pass before the ark of Jehovah your
 God into the midst of the Jordan, and lift up each of you a
 stone [and put it] upon his shoulder, according to the number
 of the tribes of the children of Israel,
4:6 that this may be a sign in your midst. When your children
 ask hereafter, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
4:7 then ye shall say to them, That the waters of the Jordan
 were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it
 went through the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.
 And these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of
 Israel for ever.
4:8 And the children of Israel did so, as Joshua had commanded,
 and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as
 Jehovah had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the
 tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over
 with them to the lodging-place, and laid them down there.
4:9 And twelve stones did Joshua set up in the midst of the
 Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the
 ark of the covenant had stood firm; and they are there to this
 day.
4:10 And the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the
 Jordan, until everything was finished that Jehovah had
 commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all
 that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hasted and
 passed over.
4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people had completely
 gone over, that the ark of Jehovah went over, and the priests,
 in the presence of the people.
4:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and
 the half tribe of Manasseh, went over in array before the
 children of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them.
4:13 About forty thousand armed for military service passed over
 before Jehovah to the war, unto the plains of Jericho.
4:14 On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all
 Israel; and they feared him, as they had feared Moses, all the
 days of his life.
4:15 And Jehovah 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 And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of
 the Jordan.
4:18 And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of
 the covenant of Jehovah had come up out of the midst of the
 Jordan, [when] the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on
 to the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to
 their place, and they flowed as previously, over all its banks.
4:19 And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of
 the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the eastern
 extremity of Jericho.
4:20 And those twelve stones which they had taken out of the
 Jordan did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
4:21 And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your
 children hereafter ask their fathers, saying, What [mean] these
 stones?
4:22 then ye shall let your children know, saying, On dry land
 did Israel come over this Jordan;
4:23 because Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan
 from before you, until ye had passed over, as Jehovah your God
 did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we
 had passed over;
4:24 that all peoples of the earth might know the hand of
 Jehovah, that it is mighty; that ye might fear Jehovah your God
 continually.
5:1 And it came to pass 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 that Jehovah had dried
 up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel,
 until they had passed over, that their heart melted, and there
 was no spirit in them any more, because of the children of
 Israel.
5:2 At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make thee stone-knives,
 and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
5:3 And Joshua made him stone-knives, and circumcised the
 children of Israel at the hill of Araloth.
5:4 And this is the cause why Joshua circumcised [them]: all the
 people that had come out of Egypt, the males, all the men of
 war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they came out
 of Egypt.
5:5 For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all
 the people that were born in the wilderness on the way, after
 they came out of Egypt, [them] had they not circumcised.
5:6 For the children of Israel had walked forty years in the
 wilderness, till the whole nation of men of war had perished
 who had come out of Egypt, who had not hearkened to the voice
 of Jehovah; to whom Jehovah had sworn that he would not show
 them the land which Jehovah had sworn unto their fathers that
 he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
5:7 And their sons [whom] he raised up in their stead, them
 Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they
 had not circumcised them on the way.
5:8 And it came to pass when the whole nation had finished being
 circumcised, that they abode in their place in the camp, till
 they were whole.
5:9 And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
 reproach of Egypt from off you. And the name of the place was
 called Gilgal to this day.
5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and held the
 passover on the fourteenth day of the month, at even, in the
 plains of Jericho.
5:11 And they ate of the old corn of the land on the morrow
 after the passover, unleavened loaves, and roasted [corn] on
 that same day.
5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow, when they had eaten of
 the old corn of the land; and there was no more manna for the
 children of Israel; and they ate of the produce of the land of
 Canaan that year.
5:13 And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he
 lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man
 before him with his sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua went to
 him, and said to him: Art thou for us, or for our enemies?
5:14 And he said, No; for [as] captain of the army of Jehovah am
 I now come. Then Joshua fell upon his face to the earth, and
 worshipped, and said to him, What saith my lord unto his
 servant?
5:15 And the captain of Jehovah's army said to Joshua, Loose thy
 sandal from off thy foot: for the place whereon thou standest
 is holy. And Joshua did so.
6:1 Now Jericho was shut up and was barred, because of the
 children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
6:2 And Jehovah said to Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand
 Jericho, and the king thereof, [and] the valiant men.
6:3 And ye shall go round the city, all the men of war,
 encompassing the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
6:4 And seven priests shall carry before the ark seven
 blast-trumpets; and on the seventh day ye shall go round the
 city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
6:5 And it shall come to pass when they make a long blast with
 the blast-horn, that all the people on hearing the sound of the
 trumpet shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the
 city shall fall flat, and the people shall go up, each one
 straight before him.
6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to
 them, Carry the ark of the covenant, and seven priests shall
 carry seven blast-trumpets before the ark of Jehovah.
6:7 And he said to the people, Pass on, go round the city, and
 they that are armed shall pass on before the ark of Jehovah.
6:8 And it came to pass when Joshua had spoken to the people,
 that the seven priests carrying the seven blast-trumpets before
 Jehovah passed on and blew with the trumpets; and the ark of
 the covenant of Jehovah went after them.
6:9 And the armed men went before the priests who blew with the
 trumpets, and the rearguard came after the ark; they blew with
 the trumpets in marching.
6:10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not
 shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall a word
 proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, Shout;
 then shall ye shout.
6:11 And the ark of Jehovah went round the city, encompassing
 [it] once; and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests
 carried the ark of Jehovah.
6:13 And the seven priests carrying the seven blast-trumpets
 before the ark of Jehovah went on and blew continually with the
 trumpets; and the armed men went before them, and the rearguard
 went after the ark of Jehovah; they blew with the trumpets in
 marching.
6:14 And on the second day they went round the city once, and
 returned into the camp. So they did six days.
6:15 And it was so that on the seventh day they rose early,
 about the morning-dawn, and went round the city after the same
 manner seven times; only on that day they went round the city
 seven times.
6:16 And it came to pass the seventh time, when the priests blew
 with the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people, Shout; for
 Jehovah has given you the city.
6:17 And the city shall be accursed, it and all that is in it,
 to Jehovah; only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that
 are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that
 we sent.
6:18 But in any wise keep from the accursed thing, lest ye make
 [yourselves] accursed in taking of the accursed thing, and make
 the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
6:19 And all the silver, and gold, and vessels of copper and
 iron, shall be holy to Jehovah; they shall come into the
 treasury of Jehovah.
6:20 And the people shouted, and they blew with the trumpets.
 And it came to pass when the people heard the sound of the
 trumpets, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the
 wall fell down flat; and the people went up into the city, each
 one straight before him, and they took the city.
6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city; both
 man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with
 the edge of the sword.
6:22 And Joshua said to the two men that had spied out the
 country, Go into the harlot's house and bring out thence the
 woman, and all that she has, as ye swore unto her.
6:23 And the young men, the spies, went in and brought out
 Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and
 all that she had: all her kindred did they bring out, and they
 left them outside the camp of Israel.
6:24 And they burned the city with fire, and all that was
 therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of
 copper and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of
 Jehovah.
6:25 And Joshua saved alive Rahab the harlot, and her father's
 household, and all that she had, and she dwelt in the midst of
 Israel to this day; because she hid the messengers whom Joshua
 had sent to spy out Jericho.
6:26 And Joshua swore at that time, saying, Cursed be the man
 before Jehovah who shall rise up and build this city Jericho!
 In his first-born shall he lay its foundation, and in his
 youngest son shall he set up its gates.
6:27 And Jehovah was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the
 land.
7:1 But the children of Israel committed unfaithfulness in that
 which had been brought under the curse: Achan, the son of
 Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of
 Judah, took of the accursed thing; and the anger of Jehovah was
 kindled against the children of Israel.
7:2 And 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 country. And the men went up and
 spied out Ai.
7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all
 the people go up; let about two or three thousand men go up and
 smite Ai; make not all the people to toil thither, for they are
 few.
7:4 And there went up thither of the people about three thousand
 men, but they fled before the men of Ai.
7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty-six men; and
 they pursued them from before the gate to Shebarim, and smote
 them on the descent. Then the hearts of the people melted, and
 became as water.
7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his
 face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the
 elders of Israel, and threw dust upon their heads.
7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at
 all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the
 hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Oh that we had been
 content and had remained beyond the Jordan!
7:8 Ah Lord! what shall I say after Israel have turned their
 backs before their enemies?
7:9 When the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land
 shall hear [of it], they will surround us, and cut off our name
 from the earth. And what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
7:10 And Jehovah said to Joshua, Rise up; wherefore liest thou
 thus upon thy face?
7:11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my
 covenant which I commanded them, and they have even taken of
 the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also,
 and they have put it among their stuff.
7:12 And the children of Israel shall not be able to stand
 before their enemies: they shall turn their backs before their
 enemies, for they have made themselves accursed. I will no more
 be with you, except ye destroy the accursed thing from your
 midst.
7:13 Rise up, hallow the people, and say, Hallow yourselves for
 to-morrow; for thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, There is
 an accursed thing in the midst of thee, Israel: thou shalt not
 be able to stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the
 accursed thing from your midst.
7:14 And ye shall be brought near in the morning according to
 your tribes; and it shall be, that the tribe which Jehovah
 taketh shall come forward by families, and the family which
 Jehovah taketh shall come forward by households; and the
 household which Jehovah taketh shall come forward man by man.
7:15 And it shall be, that he who is taken with the accursed
 thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he hath,
 because he hath transgressed the covenant of Jehovah, and
 because he hath wrought wickedness in Israel.
7:16 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and caused Israel to
 come forward by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.
7:17 And he caused the families of Judah to come forward, and he
 took the family of the Zarhites. And he caused the family of
 the Zarhites to come forward man by man, and Zabdi was taken.
7:18 And he caused his household to come forward 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 And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory
 to Jehovah the God of Israel, and make confession to him: tell
 me now what thou hast done, keep it not back from me.
7:20 And Achan answered Joshua and said, Indeed I have sinned
 against Jehovah the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I
 done.
7:21 I saw among the spoils a beautiful mantle of Shinar, and
 two hundred shekels of silver, and a golden bar of fifty
 shekels weight, and 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 And Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and
 behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
7:23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and
 brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel, and
 laid them out before Jehovah.
7:24 Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of
 Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the bar of gold, and
 his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and
 his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had; and they brought
 them up into the valley of Achor.
7:25 And Joshua said, How hast thou troubled us! Jehovah will
 trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones;
 and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with stones.
7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones, [which is
 there] to this day. And Jehovah turned from the fierceness of
 his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The
 Valley of Achor, to this day.
8:1 And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be dismayed.
 Take with thee all the people of war, and arise, go up to Ai.
 See, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people,
 and his city, and his land.
8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and to its king as thou didst to
 Jericho and to its king; only, the spoil thereof and the cattle
 thereof shall ye take as prey for yourselves. Set an ambush
 against the city behind it.
8:3 And Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai.
 And Joshua chose thirty thousand valiant men, and sent them
 away by night.
8:4 And he commanded them, saying, See, ye shall be in ambush
 against the city, behind the city: go not very far from the
 city, and be all of you ready.
8:5 And I and all the people that are with me will approach to
 the city; and it shall come to pass 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 till we have drawn them from
 the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the
 first; and we will flee before them.
8:7 And ye shall rise up from the ambush and take possession of
 the city; and Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
8:8 And it shall be when ye have taken the city, that ye shall
 set the city on fire; according to the word of Jehovah shall ye
 do. See, I have commanded you.
8:9 And Joshua sent them forth; and they went to lie in ambush,
 and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west of Ai. And Joshua
 lodged that night among the people.
8:10 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and inspected the
 people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the
 people to Ai.
8:11 And all the people of war that were with him went up, and
 drew near, and came before the city; and they encamped on the
 north of Ai; and the valley was between them and Ai.
8:12 Now he had taken about five thousand men, and set them in
 ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west of the city.
8:13 And when they had set the people, the whole camp on the
 north of the city, and their ambush on the west of the city,
 Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.
8:14 And it came to pass when the king of Ai saw it, that the
 men of the city hasted and rose early, and went out against
 Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the appointed place
 before the plain. But he knew not that there was an ambush
 against him behind the city.
8:15 And Joshua and all Israel let themselves be beaten before
 them; and they fled by the way of the wilderness.
8:16 And all the people that 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 And not a man remained in Ai and Bethel that went not out
 after Israel; and they left the city open, and pursued after
 Israel.
8:18 And Jehovah said to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is
 in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And
 Joshua stretched out the javelin that he had in his hand toward
 the city.
8:19 And the ambush arose quickly from their place, and they ran
 when he stretched out his hand, and came into the city, and
 took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.
8:20 And the men of Ai turned and saw, and behold, the smoke of
 the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this
 way or that way; and the people that fled to the wilderness
 turned upon the pursuers.
8:21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken
 the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, they turned
 again, and slew the men of Ai.
8:22 And the others went 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 smote them, until they let none of them
 escape or flee away.
8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to
 Joshua.
8:24 And it came to pass when Israel had ended slaying all the
 inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they
 had chased them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the
 sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to
 Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
8:25 And so it was, that all who fell that day, men as well as
 women, were twelve thousand, all the people of Ai.
8:26 And Joshua did not draw back his hand, which he had
 stretched out with the javelin, until they had utterly
 destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
8:27 Only, the cattle and the spoil of the city Israel took as
 prey to themselves, according to the word of Jehovah which he
 had commanded Joshua.
8:28 And Joshua burned Ai, and made it an everlasting heap of
 desolation to this day.
8:29 And 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 carcase down from the tree, and threw it down at the
 entrance of the gate of the city, and raised upon it a great
 heap of stones, [which remains] to this day.
8:30 Then Joshua built an altar to Jehovah the God of Israel, in
 mount Ebal,
8:31 as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded the children
 of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an
 altar of whole stones, over which iron had not been lifted up.
 And they offered up burnt-offerings on it to Jehovah, and
 sacrificed peace-offerings.
8:32 And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of
 Moses, which he had written before the children of Israel.
8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and their officers and
 judges, stood on this side and on that side of the ark before
 the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of
 Jehovah, as well the stranger as the home-born [Israelite];
 half of them toward mount Gerizim, and the other half of them
 toward mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Jehovah had
 commanded, that they should bless the people of Israel, in the
 beginning.
8:34 And afterwards 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 had commanded which
 Joshua read not before the whole congregation of Israel, and
 the women, and the children, and the strangers that lived among
 them.
9:1 And it came to pass when all the kings who were on this side
 the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and along
 all the coast of the great sea as far as opposite to Lebanon,
 the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the
 Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [of it],
9:2 that they assembled together, to fight with Joshua and with
 Israel, with one accord.
9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had
 done to Jericho and to Ai,
9:4 then they also acted with craft, and they went prepared as
 on a journey, and took old sacks upon their asses, and
 wine-flasks, old and rent and tied up;
9:5 and old and patched sandals upon their feet, and old
 garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was
 dry [and] mouldy.
9:6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said to
 him, and to the men of Israel, From a far country are we come;
 and now make a covenant with us.
9:7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivite, Perhaps thou
 dwellest in the midst of us, and how should I make a covenant
 with thee?
9:8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua
 said to them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?
9:9 And they said to him, From a very far country are thy
 servants come, because of the name of Jehovah thy 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 that
 were beyond Jordan, to Sihon the king of Heshbon, and to Og the
 king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
9:11 And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke
 to us, saying, Take victuals in your hand for the way, and go
 to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants, and now
 make a covenant with us.
9:12 This our bread we took warm for our provision out of our
 houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; and now,
 behold, it is dry, and is become mouldy.
9:13 And these flasks of wine which we filled new, behold, they
 are rent; and these our garments and our sandals are become old
 by reason of the very long journey.
9:14 And the men took of their victuals, but they did not
 inquire at the mouth of Jehovah.
9:15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with
 them, to let them live; and the princes of the assembly swore
 unto them.
9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had
 made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their
 neighbours, and that they dwelt in their midst.
9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their
 cities on the third day; and their cities were Gibeon, and
 Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.
9:18 And the children of Israel did not smite them, because the
 princes of the assembly had sworn unto them by Jehovah the God
 of Israel. Then all the assembly murmured against the princes.
9:19 And all the princes said to all the assembly, We have sworn
 unto them by Jehovah the God of Israel, and now we may not
 touch them.
9:20 This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath come
 upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.
9:21 And the princes said to them, Let them live. And they were
 hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the assembly; as
 the princes had said to them.
9:22 And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying,
 Why have ye deceived us, saying, We are very far from you;
 whereas ye dwell in our midst?
9:23 And now ye are cursed, and ye shall never cease to be
 bondmen, and hewers of wood, and drawers of water for the house
 of my God.
9:24 And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly
 told thy servants how that Jehovah thy God commanded his
 servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the
 inhabitants of the land from before you; and we feared greatly
 for our lives because of you, and did this thing.
9:25 And now behold, we are in thy hand: as it is good and right
 in thine eyes to do to us, do.
9:26 And he did so to them, and delivered them out of the hand
 of the children of Israel, and they did not slay them.
9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of
 water for the assembly, and for the altar of Jehovah, to this
 day, in the place which he should choose.
10:1 And it came to pass when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem
 heard that Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it,
 that he had done to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho
 and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace
 with Israel, and were among them,
10:2 that they feared greatly; for Gibeon was a great city, as
 one of the royal cities, and it was greater than Ai, and all
 its men were mighty.
10:3 And Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of
 Hebron, and to Piream 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, that we may smite Gibeon; for
 it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
10:5 And the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem,
 the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish,
 [and] the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went
 up, they and all their armies, and they encamped before Gibeon,
 and made war against it.
10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua, to the camp at
 Gilgal, saying, Withdraw not thy hand from thy 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
 against us.
10:7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war
 with him, even all the valiant men.
10:8 And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear them not; for into thy
 hand have I given them: not a man of them shall stand before
 thee.
10:9 And Joshua came upon them suddenly; he went up from Gilgal
 all night.
10:10 And Jehovah discomfited them before Israel, and smote them
 [with] a great slaughter at Gibeon; and he chased them on the
 way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them up to Azekah
 and Makkedah.
10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, --
 they were at the descent of Beth-horon, -- that Jehovah cast
 down great stones from heaven upon them up to Azekah, and they
 died. They were more who died with the hailstones than they
 whom the children of Israel had slain with the sword.
10:12 Then spoke Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah gave
 up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in
 the sight of Israel, Sun, stand still upon Gibeon; And thou,
 moon, in the valley of Ajalon!
10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon remained where it
 was, until the nation had avenged themselves upon their
 enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? And the sun
 remained standing in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go
 down about a full day.
10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that
 Jehovah hearkened to the voice of a man; for Jehovah fought for
 Israel.
10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp,
 to Gilgal.
10:16 And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave
 at Makkedah.
10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings have been
 found, hid in the cave at Makkedah.
10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones before the mouth of the
 cave, and set men before it to keep them.
10:19 And ye, stay not, pursue after your enemies, and smite the
 hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities;
 for Jehovah your God has given them into your hand.
10:20 And it came to pass when Joshua and the children of Israel
 had ended smiting them with a very great slaughter, until they
 were consumed, that the remnant which remained of them entered
 into fortified cities;
10:21 and all the people returned to the camp to Joshua, at
 Makkedah, in peace; none moved his tongue against the children
 of Israel.
10:22 And Joshua said, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring
 forth to me those five kings out of the cave.
10:23 And they did so, and brought forth to him those five kings
 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 And it came to pass when they had brought forth those
 kings to Joshua, that Joshua called to all the men of Israel,
 and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him,
 Come forward, put your feet on the necks of these kings. And
 they came forward and put their feet on their necks.
10:25 And Joshua said to them, Fear not, neither be dismayed; be
 strong and courageous, for thus will Jehovah do to all your
 enemies against whom ye fight.
10:26 And afterwards Joshua smote them, and put them to death,
 and hanged them on five trees; and they were hanging upon the
 trees until the evening.
10:27 And it came to pass 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 where they had been hid, and
 laid great stones before the cave's mouth, [which remain] to
 this very day.
10:28 And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and smote it with
 the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, him and all the
 souls that were therein he utterly destroyed; he let none
 remain; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to
 the king of Jericho.
10:29 And Joshua passed, and all Israel with him, from Makkedah
 to Libnah, and fought against Libnah.
10:30 And Jehovah gave it also and the king thereof into the
 hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and
 all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it: and
 he did to the king thereof as he had done to the king of
 Jericho.
10:31 And Joshua passed, and all Israel with him, from Libnah to
 Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it.
10:32 And Jehovah gave Lachish into the hand of Israel; and they
 took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the
 sword, and all the souls that 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 smote him and his people, until he had left him none
 remaining.
10:34 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, passed from Lachish
 to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it.
10:35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge
 of the sword; and all the souls that were therein he utterly
 destroyed on that day, according to all that he had done to
 Lachish.
10:36 And Joshua went up, and all Israel with him, from Eglon to
 Hebron; and they fought against it.
10:37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword,
 and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the
 souls that were therein: he let none remain, according to all
 that he had done to Eglon; and he utterly destroyed it, and all
 the souls that were therein.
10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir;
 and fought against it.
10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities
 thereof, and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and
 utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he let none
 remain: as he had done to Hebron, and as he had done to Libnah,
 and to the king thereof, so he did to Debir and to the king
 thereof.
10:40 And Joshua smote the whole country, the mountain, and the
 south, and the lowland, and the hill-slopes, and all their
 kings: he let none remain, but he utterly destroyed all that
 breathed, as Jehovah the God of Israel had commanded.
10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gazah,
 and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon;
10:42 and all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one
 time; for Jehovah the God of Israel fought for Israel.
10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp,
 to Gilgal.
11:1 And it came to pass when Jabin king of Hazor heard [this],
 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 that were northward in the mountains, and
 in the plain south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and on
 the upland of Dor on the west,
11:3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the
 Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite
 in the mountains, and to the Hivite at the foot of Hermon in
 the land of Mizpah.
11:4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a
 people numerous as the sand that is on the seashore in
 multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
11:5 And all these kings met together, and came and encamped
 together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
11:6 And Jehovah said to Joshua, Be not afraid because of them;
 for to-morrow about this time will I give them all up slain
 before Israel: their horses shalt thou hough, and thou shalt
 burn their chariots with fire.
11:7 And Joshua, and all the people of war with him, came upon
 them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them.
11:8 And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and
 they smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and to
 Misrephoth-maim, and to the valley of Mizpah eastward, and
 smote them until none were left remaining to them.
11:9 And Joshua did to them as Jehovah had said to him: he
 houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
11:10 And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and
 smote the king thereof with the sword; for Hazor was in times
 past the head of all those kingdoms.
11:11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the
 edge of the sword, destroying them utterly: there was not any
 left to breathe; and he burned Hazor with fire.
11:12 And all the cities of those kings and all their kings did
 Joshua take; and he smote them with the edge of the sword,
 destroying them utterly, as Moses the servant of Jehovah had
 commanded.
11:13 Only, all the cities that stood still upon their hills
 Israel did not burn, save Hazor alone, [which] Joshua burned.
11:14 And all the spoil of these cities and the cattle the
 children of Israel took as prey to themselves; only, they smote
 all the men with the edge of the sword, until they had
 destroyed them: they left none that breathed.
11:15 As Jehovah had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses
 command Joshua, and so did Joshua: he let nothing fail of all
 that Jehovah had commanded Moses.
11:16 And Joshua took all that land, the mountain and all the
 south, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the
 plain, and the mountain of Israel, and its lowland;
11:17 from the smooth mountain, which rises toward Seir, as far
 as Baal-Gad in the valley of Lebanon, at the foot of mount
 Hermon; and he took all their kings, and smote 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 who dwelt at Gibeon; they took all in
 battle.
11:20 For it was of Jehovah that their heart was hardened, to
 meet Israel in battle, that they might be utterly destroyed,
 and that there might be no favour shewn to them, but that they
 might be destroyed, as Jehovah had commanded Moses.
11:21 And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from
 the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all
 the mountain of Judah, and from all the mountain of Israel:
 Joshua destroyed them utterly, with their cities.
11:22 There were none of the Anakim left in the land of the
 children of Israel; only at Gazah, at Gath, and at Ashdod there
 remained.
11:23 And Joshua took the whole land, according to all that
 Jehovah had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an
 inheritance to Israel according to their divisions, by their
 tribes. And the land rested from war.
12:1 And these are the kings of the land, whom the children of
 Israel smote, and of whose land they took possession across the
 Jordan, toward the sun-rising, from the river Arnon to mount
 Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
12:2 Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, [and]
 ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon,
 and from the middle of the ravine, and over half Gilead, as far
 as the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of
 Ammon;
12:3 and the plain as far as the sea of Chinneroth on the east,
 and as far as the sea of the plain, the salt sea, on the east,
 toward Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of
 Pisgah;
12:4 and the territory of Og the king of Bashan, of the residue
 of the giants, who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
12:5 and ruled over mount Hermon, and over Salcah, and over all
 Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the
 Maachathites, and [over] half Gilead [as far as] the border of
 Sihon the king of Heshbon.
12:6 Moses the servant of Jehovah and the children of Israel
 smote them, and Moses the servant of Jehovah gave it for a
 possession to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half
 the tribe of Manasseh.
12:7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the
 children of Israel smote on this side the Jordan on the west,
 from Baal-Gad in the valley of Lebanon as far as the smooth
 mountain, which rises toward Seir. And Joshua gave it to the
 tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions,
12:8 in the mountain, and in the lowland, and in the plain, and
 on the hill-slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the south:
 the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the
 Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites:
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 Lasharon, 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 on Carmel,
 one;
12:23 the king of Dor in the upland of Dor, one; the king of
 Goim, at Gilgal, one;
12:24 the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
13:1 And Joshua was old, advanced in age, and Jehovah said to
 him, Thou art old, advanced in age, and there remaineth yet
 very much land to take possession of.
13:2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the districts of
 the Philistines and all the Geshurites,
13:3 from the Shihor, which [floweth] before Egypt, as far as
 the borders of Ekron northward, [and which] is counted to the
 Canaanite; five lordships of the Philistines: of Gazah, and of
 Ashdod, of Eshkalon, of Gath, and of Ekron; also the Avvites;
13:4 in the south, the whole land of the Canaanites, and Mearah
 which [belongeth] to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border
 of the Amorites;
13:5 and the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the
 sun-rising, from Baal-Gad at the foot of mount Hermon to the
 entrance into Hamath;
13:6 all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon to
 Misrephoth-maim, all the Sidonians; I will dispossess them from
 before the children of Israel. Only, partition it by lot to
 Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
13:7 And now divide this land for an inheritance to the nine
 tribes, and to half the tribe of Manasseh;
13:8 with him the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their
 inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward,
 as Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them:
13:9 from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and
 the city that is in the midst of the ravine, and all the
 plateau of Medeba to Dibon,
13:10 and all the cities of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who
 reigned at Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
13:11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and
 Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and the whole of Bashan to
 Salcah;
13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned at Ashtaroth
 and at Edrei, who remained of the residue of the giants; and
 Moses smote them and dispossessed them.
13:13 But the children of Israel did not dispossess the
 Geshurites nor the Maachathites; but the Geshurites and the
 Maachathites dwell among the Israelites to this day.
13:14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance: the
 offerings by fire of Jehovah the God of Israel are their
 inheritance, as he said to them.
13:15 And Moses gave [a portion] to the tribe of the children of
 Reuben according to their families.
13:16 And their territory was from Aroer, which is on the bank
 of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the
 ravine, and all the plateau by Medeba;
13:17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plateau,
 Dibon, and Bamoth-Baal, and Beth-Baal-meon,
13:18 And Jahzah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
13:19 and Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the
 mountain of the vale,
13:20 and Beth-Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and
 Beth-jeshimoth;
13:21 all the cities of the plateau, and the whole kingdom of
 Sihon the king of the Amorites, who reigned at Heshbon, whom
 Moses smote, him and the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and
 Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon dwelling in the
 land.
13:22 And Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, did the children
 of Israel kill with the sword among them that were slain by
 them.
13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan,
 and [its] border. This is the inheritance of the children of
 Reuben according to their families, the cities and their
 hamlets.
13:24 And Moses gave [a portion] to the tribe of Gad, to the
 children of Gad according to their families.
13:25 And their territory was Jaazer, and all the cities of
 Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer
 which 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 the king
 of Heshbon, the Jordan and [its] border, as far as the edge 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 their hamlets.
13:29 And Moses gave [a portion] to half the tribe of Manasseh;
 and for half the tribe of the children of Manasseh according to
 their families:
13:30 their territory was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, the whole
 kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, and all the villages 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, [belonged] to the children of
 Machir the son of Manasseh, to the one half of the children of
 Machir according to their families.
13:32 This is that which Moses allotted for inheritance in the
 plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan of Jericho, eastward.
13:33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance:
 Jehovah the God of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to
 them.
14:1 And this is what the children of Israel inherited in the
 land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of
 Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of
 Israel, allotted for inheritance to them:
14:2 their inheritance was by lot, as Jehovah had commanded by
 Moses, for the nine tribes, and 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 had
 given no inheritance among them.
14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
 Ephraim; and they gave no part to the Levites in the land, save
 cities to dwell in, and their suburbs for their cattle and for
 their substance.
14:5 As Jehovah had commanded Moses, so the children of Israel
 did, and they divided the land.
14:6 Then the children of Judah came near to Joshua in Gilgal,
 and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, Thou
 knowest the word that Jehovah spoke to Moses the man of God,
 concerning me and thee, in Kadesh-barnea.
14:7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of Jehovah
 sent me from Kadesh-barnea to search out the land; and I
 brought him word again as it was in my heart.
14:8 And my brethren that had gone up with me made the heart of
 the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God.
14:9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, The land whereon thy
 feet have trodden shall assuredly be thine inheritance, and thy
 children's for ever! for thou hast wholly followed Jehovah my
 God.
14:10 And now behold, Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said,
 these forty-five years, since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses,
 when Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now behold, I am
 this day eighty-five years old.
14:11 I am still this day strong, as in the day that Moses sent
 me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for
 war, both to go out and to come in.
14:12 And now give me this mountain, of which Jehovah spoke in
 that day; for thou heardest in that day that Anakim are there,
 and great fortified cities. If so be Jehovah shall be with me,
 then I shall dispossess them, as Jehovah said.
14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son
 of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son
 of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly
 followed Jehovah the God of Israel.
14:15 Now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-Arba; the great
 man among the Anakim. And the land rested from war.
15:1 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah according
 to their families was: to the border of Edom, the wilderness of
 Zin, southward, in the extreme south.
15:2 And their southern border was from the end of the salt sea,
 from the tongue that turns southward;
15:3 and it went out south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and passed
 on to Zin, and went up on the south of Kadesh-barnea, and
 passed to Hezron, and went up toward Addar, and turned toward
 Karkaah,
15:4 and passed on to Azmon, and went out by the torrent of
 Egypt; and the border ended at the sea. That shall be your
 border southward.
15:5 -- And the eastern border was the salt sea as far as the
 end of the Jordan. -- And the border on the north side was from
 the tongue of the salt sea, at the end of the Jordan;
15:6 and the border went up toward Beth-hoglah, and passed 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 toward Debir from the valley of
 Achor, and turned northward to Gilgal, which is opposite to the
 ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the torrent;
 and the border passed to the waters of En-shemesh, and ended at
 En-rogel;
15:8 and the border went up to the valley of the son of Hinnom,
 toward the south side of the Jebusite, that is, Jerusalem; and
 the border went up to the top of the mountain that is before
 the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the
 valley of Rephaim northward;
15:9 and the border reached along from the top of the mountain
 toward the spring of the waters of Nephtoah, and went out
 toward the cities of mount Ephron; and the border reached along
 to Baalah, that is, Kirjath-jearim;
15:10 and the border turned from Baalah westwards toward mount
 Seir, and passed toward the side of Har-jearim, that is,
 Chesalon, northwards, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed
 Timnah.
15:11 And the border went out to the side of Ekron northwards,
 and the border reached along toward Shicron, and passed mount
 Baalah, and went toward Jabneel; and the border ended at the
 sea.
15:12 -- And the west border is the great sea and [its] coast.
 This is the border of the children of Judah round about,
 according to their families.
15:13 And to Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among
 the children of Judah according to the commandment of Jehovah
 to Joshua, the city of Arba, the father of Anak, that is,
 Hebron.
15:14 And thence Caleb dispossessed the three sons of Anak,
 Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, who were born of Anak.
15:15 And from there he went up against the inhabitants of
 Debir; now the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher.
15:16 And Caleb said, He that smites Kirjath-sepher and takes
 it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.
15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took
 it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
15:18 And it came to pass as she came, that she urged him to ask
 of her father a field; and she sprang down from the ass. And
 Caleb said to her, What wouldest thou?
15:19 And she said, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a
 southern land; give me also springs of water. Then 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 cities at the extremity 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 Jithnan,
15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
15:25 and Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-Hezron, that is Hazor,
15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Molada,
15:27 and Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-Pelet,
15:28 and Hazar-Shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;
15:29 Baalah, and Ijim, and Ezem,
15:30 and Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
15:31 and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansanna,
15:32 and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the
 cities twenty-nine, and their hamlets.
15:33 -- In the lowland: Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
15:34 and Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah and Enam,
15:35 Jarmuth and Adullam, Sochoh and Azekah,
15:36 and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim:
 fourteen cities and their hamlets.
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 Lahmas, and Chithlish,
15:41 and Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah:
 sixteen cities and their hamlets.
15:42 Libna, and Ether, and Ashan,
15:43 and Jiphthah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
15:44 and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah: nine cities and
 their hamlets.
15:45 Ekron and its dependent villages and its hamlets.
15:46 From Ekron and westward all that are by the side of
 Ashdod, and their hamlets.
15:47 Ashdod, its dependent villages and its hamlets; Gazah, its
 dependent villages and its hamlets, as far as the torrent of
 Egypt, and the great sea and [its] coast.
15:48 -- And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and
 Sochoh,
15:49 and Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, that is, Debir,
15:50 and Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
15:51 and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities and their
 hamlets.
15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan,
15:53 and Janum, and Beth-Tappuah, and Aphekah,
15:54 and Humtah, and Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, and Zior:
 nine cities and their hamlets.
15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah,
15:56 and Jizreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
15:57 Kain, Gibeah and Timnah: ten cities and their hamlets.
15:58 Halhul, Beth-Zur, and Gedor,
15:59 and Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon: six cities and
 their hamlets.
15:60 Kirjath-Baal, that is, Kirjath-jearim, and Rabbah: two
 cities and their hamlets.
15:61 -- In the wilderness: Beth-Arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
15:62 and Nibshan, and Ir-Hammelah, and En-gedi: six cities and
 their hamlets.
15:63 But as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
 the children of Judah could not dispossess them; and the
 Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this
 day.
16:1 And the lot came forth for the children of Joseph from the
 Jordan of Jericho as far as the waters of Jericho eastwards, to
 the wilderness which goes up from Jericho to the hill-country
 of Bethel.
16:2 And [the border] went from Bethel to Luz, and passed to the
 border of the Archites to Ataroth,
16:3 and went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, as
 far as the border of the lower Beth-horon, and to Gezer; and
 ended at the sea.
16:4 And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took
 their inheritance.
16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to
 their families; the border of their inheritance eastwards was
 Ataroth-Addar as far as the upper Beth-horon;
16:6 and the border went forth westwards to Micmethath on the
 north; and the border turned eastwards to Taanath-Shiloh, and
 passed by it eastwards to Janohah,
16:7 and went down from Janohah to Ataroth and Naarath, and
 touched upon Jericho, and went out to the Jordan.
16:8 From Tappuah the border went westwards to the torrent
 Kanah, and ended at the sea. This is the inheritance of the
 tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families,
16:9 with the cities that were set apart for the children of
 Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of
 Manasseh, all the cities and their hamlets.
16:10 But they did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt at
 Gezer; and the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this
 day, and serve under tribute.
17:1 And the lot came to the tribe of Manasseh (for he was the
 firstborn of Joseph), to Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the
 father of Gilead, for he was a man of war, and he had Gilead
 and Bashan.
17:2 There was also [a portion] 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 are the
 children of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the males, according
 to their families.
17:3 And 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 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before
 Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, Jehovah
 commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren.
 And he gave them according to the commandment of Jehovah an
 inheritance among the brethren of their father.
17:5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, besides the land
 of Gilead and Bashan, which are beyond the Jordan.
17:6 For the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among
 his sons; and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of
 Gilead.
17:7 And the territory of Manasseh was from Asher to Micmethath,
 which is before Shechem, and the border went on the right hand
 toward the inhabitants of En-Tappuah.
17:8 Manasseh had the land of Tappuah; but Tappuah on the border
 of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim.
17:9 And the border descended to the torrent Kanah, south of the
 torrent. These cities were Ephraim's among the cities of
 Manasseh. And the territory of Manasseh was on the north side
 of the torrent, and ended at the sea.
17:10 Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was
 Manasseh's, and the sea was his border. And they touched upon
 Asher on the north, and upon Issachar on the east.
17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher, Beth-shean and
 its dependent villages, and Ibleam and its dependent villages,
 and the inhabitants of Dor and its dependent villages, and the
 inhabitants of En-Dor and its dependent villages, and the
 inhabitants of Taanach and its dependent villages, and the
 inhabitants of Megiddo and its dependent villages, the three
 hilly regions.
17:12 But the children of Manasseh could not dispossess [the
 inhabitants of] those cities; and the Canaanites would dwell in
 that land.
17:13 And it came to pass when the children of Israel were
 become strong, that they made the Canaanites tributary; but
 they did not utterly dispossess them.
17:14 And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why
 hast thou given me as inheritance one lot and one portion,
 seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as Jehovah has blessed me
 hitherto?
17:15 And Joshua said unto them, If thou art a great people,
 then get thee up to the wood, and cut down for thyself there in
 the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if the
 hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.
17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country will not
 be enough for us; and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land
 of the valley have chariots of iron, those that are of
 Beth-shean and its dependent villages, and those that are in
 the valley of Jizreel.
17:17 And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to
 Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great
 power: thou shalt not have one lot only,
17:18 but the hill-country shall be thine, as it is a wood, thou
 shalt cut it down, and its outgoings shall be thine; for thou
 shalt dispossess the Canaanites, though they have iron
 chariots; for they are powerful.
18:1 And the whole assembly of the children of Israel gathered
 together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and
 the land was subdued before them.
18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven
 tribes whose inheritance had not been distributed to them.
18:3 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will ye
 shew yourselves slack to go to take possession of the land
 which Jehovah the God of your fathers hath given you?
18:4 Provide you three men for a tribe; that I may send them,
 and they shall rise and go through the land, and describe it
 according to the proportion of their inheritance, and they
 shall come to me.
18:5 And they shall divide it into seven portions. Judah shall
 remain in their border on the south, and the house of Joseph
 shall remain in their border on the north;
18:6 and *ye* shall describe the land into seven portions, and
 bring [the description] hither to me, and I will cast lots for
 you here before Jehovah our God.
18:7 But the Levites have no portion among you, for the
 priesthood of Jehovah is their inheritance. And Gad, and
 Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their
 inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the
 servant of Jehovah gave them.
18:8 And the men arose and went away. And Joshua charged them
 that 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 Jehovah in Shiloh.
18:9 And 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 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah.
 And there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel
 according to their divisions.
18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came
 up according to their families. And the territory of their lot
 came forth between the children of Judah and the children of
 Joseph.
18:12 And their border on the north side was from the Jordan;
 and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and
 went up to the mountain westward; and ended at the wilderness
 of Beth-Aven;
18:13 and the border passed on from thence toward Luz, to the
 south side of Luz, which is Bethel: and the border went down to
 Ataroth-Addar, near the hill that is on the south of the lower
 Beth-horon.
18:14 -- And the border reached along and turned on the west
 side, southward from the hill that is before Beth-horon
 southward; and ended at Kirjath-Baal, which is Kirjath-jearim,
 a city of the children of Judah: this is the west side.
18:15 -- And the south side was from the extreme end of
 Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went
 out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
18:16 And the border went down to the end of the mountain that
 is before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the
 valley of Rephaim on the north, and went down the valley of
 Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south, and went down
 to En-rogel;
18:17 and it reached along on the north, and went forth to
 En-shemesh, and went forth towards Geliloth, which is opposite
 to the ascent of Adummim, and went down to the stone of Bohan,
 the son of Reuben,
18:18 and passed along towards the side opposite to Arabah
 northwards, and went down to Arabah;
18:19 and the border passed on to the side of Beth-hoglah on the
 north, and the border ended at the tongue of the salt sea
 northward, at the south end of the Jordan: this is the southern
 border.
18:20 -- And the Jordan borders it on the east side. -- This was
 the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, according to its
 borders round about, according to their families.
18:21 And 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-haammonai, and Ophni, and Geba: twelve cities
 and their hamlets;
18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
18:26 and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
18:27 and Rekem, and Jirpeel, and Tharalah,
18:28 and Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, that is, Jerusalem, Gibeah,
 Kirjath: fourteen cities and their hamlets. This was the
 inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their
 families.
19:1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, for the tribe of
 the children of Simeon according to their families; and their
 inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of
 Judah.
19:2 And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, and 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 and their
 hamlets;
19:7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan: four cities and their
 hamlets;
19:8 and all the hamlets that are round these cities to
 Baalath-beer, [that is] 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 lot of the children of Judah was the inheritance
 of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children of
 Judah was too great for them, and the children of Simeon
 inherited within their inheritance.
19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun
 according to their families. And the border of their
 inheritance was unto Sarid;
19:11 and their border went up westwards, and [to] Marealah, and
 reached to Dabbesheth, and reached to the torrent that is
 before Jokneam;
19:12 and turned from Sarid eastward, toward the sun-rising, to
 the border of Chisloth-Tabor, and went out to Dabrath, and went
 up to Japhia;
19:13 and from thence it passed eastward toward the sun-rising
 to Gath-Hepher, to Eth-kazin, and went out to Rimmon which
 reaches to Neah;
19:14 and the border turned round it northwards to Hannathon:
 and ended in the valley of Jiphthah-el; ...
19:15 and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Jidalah, and
 Beth-lehem: twelve cities and their hamlets.
19:16 This was the inheritance of the children of Zebulun
 according to their families, these cities and their hamlets.
19:17 The fourth lot came forth to Issachar, for the children of
 Issachar according to their families.
19:18 And their territory was toward Jizreel, 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 En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
19:22 and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and
 Beth-shemesh; and their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen
 cities and their hamlets.
19:23 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Issachar according to their families, the cities and their
 hamlets.
19:24 And the fifth lot came forth for the tribe of the children
 of Asher according to their families.
19:25 And their territory was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and
 Acshaph,
19:26 and Allammelech, and Amead, and Mishal; and [the border]
 reached to Carmel westwards, and to Shihor-libnath,
19:27 and turned towards the sun-rising to Beth-Dagon, and
 reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el northward
 [to] Beth-emek and Neiel, and went out to Cabul on the left,
19:28 and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, as far as
 great Zidon;
19:29 and the border turned to Ramah, and as far as the
 fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and
 ended at the sea by the tract of country of Achzib;
19:30 and Ummah, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty-two cities and
 their hamlets.
19:31 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Asher according to their families, these cities and their
 hamlets.
19:32 The sixth lot came forth to the children of Naphtali, for
 the children of Naphtali according to their families.
19:33 And their border was from Heleph, from the oak of
 Zaanannim; and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel to Lakkum; and ended at
 the Jordan;
19:34 and the border turned westwards to Aznoth-Tabor, and went
 out from thence to Hukkok, and reached to Zebulun on the south,
 and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah upon Jordan
 towards the sun-rising.
19:35 And 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 and Jiron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and
 Beth-shemesh: nineteen cities and their hamlets.
19:39 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their
 hamlets.
19:40 The seventh lot came forth for the tribe of the children
 of Dan according to their families.
19:41 And the territory of their inheritance was Zoreah, and
 Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
19:42 and Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jithlah,
19:43 and Elon, and Timnathah, and Ekron,
19:44 and El-tekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
19:45 and Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gath-Rimmon,
19:46 and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against
 Japho.
19:47 And the border of the children of Dan ended with these;
 and the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and
 took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and took
 possession of it, and dwelt in it, and called Leshem, Dan,
 after the name of Dan their father.
19:48 This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Dan according to their families, these cities and their
 hamlets.
19:49 And they ended dividing the land for inheritance according
 to its borders. And the children of Israel gave an inheritance
 to Joshua the son of Nun among them.
19:50 According to the word of Jehovah they gave him the city
 that he asked, Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim;
 and he built the city, and dwelt in it.
19:51 These were the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and
 Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of
 the children of Israel, distributed by lot in Shiloh before
 Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting. And they ended
 dividing the land.
20:1 And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,
20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for
 yourselves the cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you
 through Moses,
20:3 that the slayer who unwittingly without intent smiteth any
 one mortally may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge
 from the avenger of blood.
20:4 And he shall flee unto one of those cities and stand at the
 entrance of the city-gate, and shall declare his matter in the
 ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into
 the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell
 among them.
20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, they shall
 not deliver the slayer up into his hand; for he smote his
 neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not previously.
20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he have stood before
 the assembly in judgment, until the death of the high-priest
 that shall be in those days; then shall the slayer return, and
 come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city
 from whence he fled.
20:7 And they hallowed Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of
 Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and
 Kirjath-Arba, that is, Hebron, in the hill-country of Judah.
20:8 And beyond the Jordan from Jericho eastward, they assigned
 Bezer in the wilderness, in the plateau, out of the tribe of
 Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan
 in Bashan of the tribe of Manasseh.
20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of
 Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that
 whosoever smiteth any one mortally without intent might flee
 thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until
 he stood before the assembly.
21:1 Then the chief fathers of the Levites drew near to Eleazar
 the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the chief
 fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
21:2 and they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
 saying, Jehovah commanded through Moses to give us cities to
 dwell in, and their suburbs for our cattle.
21:3 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their
 inheritance, according to the word of Jehovah, these cities and
 their suburbs.
21:4 And the lot came forth for the families of the Kohathites.
 And the children of Aaron the priest, 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 And the children of Kohath that remained 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 And 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 by
 lot out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad,
 and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these
 cities and their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded through Moses.
21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah,
 and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities
 which were mentioned by name,
21:10 and which the children of Aaron, of the families of the
 Kohathites, of the children of Levi had (for theirs was the
 first lot);
21:11 and they gave them Kirjath-Arba, [which Arba was] the
 father of Anak, that is, Hebron, in the mountain of Judah, with
 its suburbs round about it.
21:12 But the fields of the city and the hamlets thereof gave
 they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
21:13 And they gave to the children of Aaron the priest the city
 of refuge for the slayer, Hebron and its suburbs; and Libnah
 and its suburbs,
21:14 and Jattir and its suburbs, and Eshtemoa and its suburbs,
21:15 and Holon and its suburbs, and Debir and its suburbs,
21:16 and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, [and]
 Beth-shemesh and its suburbs: nine cities out of those two
 tribes;
21:17 and out of the tribe of Benjamin: Gibeon and its suburbs,
 Geba and its suburbs,
21:18 Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs; four
 cities.
21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were
 thirteen cities and their suburbs.
21:20 And to the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites
 that remained of the children of Kohath, [they gave cities].
 And the cities of their lot were out of the tribe of Ephraim,
21:21 and they gave them the city of refuge for the slayer,
 Shechem and its suburbs in mount Ephraim; and Gezer and its
 suburbs,
21:22 and Kibzaim and its suburbs, and Beth-horon and its
 suburbs: four cities;
21:23 and out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh and its suburbs,
 Gibbethon and its suburbs,
21:24 Ajalon and its suburbs, Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: four
 cities;
21:25 and out of half the tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and its
 suburbs and Gath-Rimmon and its suburbs: two cities.
21:26 All the cities were ten and their suburbs, for the
 families of the children of Kohath that remained.
21:27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the
 Levites, out of half the tribe of Manasseh, [they gave] the
 city of refuge for the slayer, Golan in Bashan and its suburbs;
 and Beeshterah and its suburbs: two cities;
21:28 and out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and its suburbs,
 Dabrath and its suburbs,
21:29 Jarmuth and its suburbs, En-gannim and its suburbs: four
 cities;
21:30 and out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal and its suburbs,
 Abdon and its suburbs,
21:31 Helkath and its suburbs, and Rehob and its suburbs: four
 cities;
21:32 and out of the tribe of Naphtali, the city of refuge for
 the slayer, Kedesh in Galilee, and its suburbs; and Hammoth-Dor
 and its suburbs, and Kartan and its suburbs: three cities.
21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their
 families were thirteen cities and their suburbs.
21:34 And to the families of the children of Merari, that
 remained of the Levites, [they gave] out of the tribe of
 Zebulun, Jokneam and its suburbs, Kartah and its suburbs,
21:35 Dimnah and its suburbs, Nahalal and its suburbs: four
 cities;
21:36 and out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and its suburbs, and
 Jahzah and its suburbs,
21:37 Kedemoth and its suburbs, and Mephaath and its suburbs:
 four cities;
21:38 and out of the tribe of Gad, the city of refuge for the
 slayer, Ramoth in Gilead and its suburbs; and Mahanaim and its
 suburbs,
21:39 Heshbon and its suburbs, Jaazer and its suburbs: four
 cities in all.
21:40 [These were] all the cities of the children of Merari
 according to their families, which remained of the families of
 the Levites, and their lot was twelve cities.
21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the
 children of Israel were forty-eight cities and their suburbs.
21:42 Each one of these cities had its suburbs round about it:
 thus were all these cities.
21:43 And Jehovah gave to Israel all the land which he swore to
 give unto their fathers; and they took possession of it, and
 dwelt in it.
21:44 And Jehovah gave them rest round about, according to all
 that he had sworn unto their fathers; and there stood not a man
 of all their enemies before them: Jehovah gave all their
 enemies into their hand.
21:45 There failed nothing of all the good things that Jehovah
 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 unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant
 of Jehovah commanded you, and have hearkened to my voice in all
 that I commanded you.
22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this
 day, and ye have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah
 your God.
22:4 And now Jehovah your God hath given rest to your brethren,
 as he said unto them; and now return, and get you unto your
 tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the
 servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan.
22:5 Only, take great heed to do the commandment and the law,
 which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love
 Jehovah your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
 commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all
 your heart and with all your soul.
22:6 And Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went
 to their tents.
22:7 And to half the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
 [inheritance] in Bashan, and to the other half thereof had
 Joshua given among their brethren on this side the Jordan
 westward. And when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he
 blessed them also,
22:8 and spoke to them, saying, Return unto your tents with much
 wealth and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold,
 and with copper, and with iron, and with clothing, in very
 great quantity; divide the spoil of your enemies with your
 brethren.
22:9 And 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 country of Gilead, into the land of their possession, of
 which they had become possessed, according to the word of
 Jehovah through Moses.
22:10 And they came to the districts of the Jordan that are in
 the land of Canaan; and the children of Reuben and the children
 of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by
 the Jordan, an altar of grand appearance.
22:11 And 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 over against the land of Canaan,
 in the districts of the Jordan, separately from the children of
 Israel.
22:12 And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the whole
 assembly of the children of Israel gathered together at Shiloh,
 to go up against them to war.
22:13 And 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, of each father's house a prince,
 out of all the tribes of Israel; and each of them was head of a
 father's house, of the thousands of Israel.
22:15 And 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 spoke with them, saying,
22:16 Thus saith the whole assembly of Jehovah: What wickedness
 is this which ye have committed against the God of Israel, to
 turn away this day from following Jehovah, in that ye have
 built yourselves an altar, rebelling this day against Jehovah?
22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us? from which we
 are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in
 the assembly of Jehovah.
22:18 And ye turn away this day from following Jehovah; and it
 will be, that since ye rebel this day against Jehovah,
 to-morrow he will be wroth with the whole assembly of Israel.
22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession is
 unclean, come over into the land of the possession of Jehovah,
 where Jehovah's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession
 amongst us; but rebel not against Jehovah, and rebel not
 against us, in building for yourselves an altar besides the
 altar of Jehovah our God.
22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the
 accursed thing? and wrath fell on all the assembly of Israel,
 and he perished not alone in his iniquity.
22:21 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
 half tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads of the
 thousands of Israel,
22:22 The ∙God of gods, Jehovah, the ∙God of gods, Jehovah, he
 knoweth, and Israel he shall know [it]; if it is in rebellion,
 or if in trespass against Jehovah, -- save us not this day!
22:23 -- that we have built for ourselves an altar to turn from
 following Jehovah, and if it is to offer up burnt-offering and
 oblation on it, and if to offer peace-offerings thereon, let
 Jehovah himself require it [from us];
22:24 and if we have not done it from fear of this thing,
 saying, In future your children will speak to our children,
 saying, What have ye to do with Jehovah the God of Israel?
22:25 Jehovah hath made the Jordan a border between us and you,
 ye children of Reuben and children of Gad, ye have no portion
 in Jehovah! And so shall your children make our children cease
 from fearing Jehovah.
22:26 And we said, Let us now set to work to build an altar, not
 for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice,
22:27 but to be a witness between us and you, and between our
 generations after us, that we might do service to Jehovah
 before him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices,
 and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not say to
 our children in future, Ye have no portion in Jehovah.
22:28 And we said, If it shall be that in future they so say to
 us and to our generations, we will say, Behold the pattern of
 the altar of Jehovah which our fathers made, not for
 burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice, but as a witness between us
 and you.
22:29 Far be it from us that we should rebel against Jehovah,
 and turn this day from following Jehovah, in building an altar
 for burnt-offering, for oblation, and for sacrifice, besides
 the altar of Jehovah our God that is before his tabernacle.
22:30 And when Phinehas the priest and the princes of the
 assembly and 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 was good
 in their sight.
22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the
 children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the
 children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that Jehovah is
 among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against
 Jehovah: now have ye delivered the children of Israel out of
 the hand of Jehovah.
22:32 And 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 And the thing was good in the sight of the children of
 Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God, and no more
 said that they would go up in warfare against them, to destroy
 the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of
 Gad dwelt.
22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave a
 name to the altar; for it is a witness between us that Jehovah
 is God.
23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that Jehovah had
 given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and
 Joshua had become old, advanced in age,
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 unto them, I am become old, advanced in age;
23:3 and ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done to all
 these nations because of you. For Jehovah your God is he that
 hath fought for you.
23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot for an inheritance,
 according to your tribes, these nations that remain, from the
 Jordan, as well as all the nations that I have cut off, as far
 as the great sea toward the sun-setting.
23:5 And Jehovah your God, he will expel them from before you,
 and dispossess them from out of your sight; and ye shall take
 possession of their land, as Jehovah your God hath said unto
 you.
23:6 And be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is
 written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside
 therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
23:7 that ye enter not among these nations, these that remain
 among you; and ye shall make no mention of the name of their
 gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow
 yourselves unto them;
23:8 but ye shall cleave unto Jehovah your God, as ye have done
 unto this day.
23:9 For Jehovah hath dispossessed from before you great and
 strong nations; and as to you, no man hath been able to stand
 before you unto this day.
23:10 One man of you chaseth a thousand; for Jehovah your God,
 he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath said unto you.
23:11 Take great heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love
 Jehovah your God.
23:12 For if ye in any wise go back, and cleave unto the residue
 of these nations, these that remain among you, and make
 marriages with them, and come in unto them and they unto you:
23:13 know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more
 dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be
 snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and
 thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land
 which Jehovah your God hath given you.
23:14 And behold, I am going this day the way of all the earth;
 and ye know in all your heart, and in all your soul, that not
 one thing hath failed of all the good words that Jehovah your
 God hath spoken concerning you: all are come to pass unto you
 -- not one thing hath failed thereof.
23:15 But it shall come to pass, that as every good word hath
 been fulfilled to you, that Jehovah your God spoke to you, so
 will Jehovah bring upon you every evil word, until he have
 destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God
 hath given you;
23:16 when ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God which
 he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow
 yourselves unto them, so that the anger of Jehovah shall be
 kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the
 good land which he hath given unto you.
24:1 And 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 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah the
 God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of
 the river, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of
 Nahor, and they served other gods.
24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the
 river, and led him throughout the land of Canaan, and
 multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.
24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau; and I gave unto Esau
 mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his sons went down
 into Egypt.
24:5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according
 to that which I did among them; and afterwards I brought you
 out.
24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came unto
 the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with
 chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
24:7 Then they cried to Jehovah, and he put darkness between you
 and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered
 them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt; and ye dwelt in
 the wilderness a long time.
24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt
 beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you, and I gave them
 into your hand, and ye took possession of their land, and I
 destroyed them from before you.
24:9 And Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred
 against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to
 curse you;
24:10 but I would not hearken unto Balaam, and he blessed you
 expressly, and I delivered you out of his hand.
24:11 And ye went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho, and
 the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the
 Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
 Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered
 them into your hand.
24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out
 from before you, [as] the two kings of the Amorites; not with
 thy sword, nor with thy bow.
24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour,
 and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of
 vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
24:14 And now fear Jehovah and serve him in perfectness and in
 truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the
 other side of the river, and in Egypt; and serve Jehovah.
24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you
 this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods whom your fathers
 that were on the other side of the river served, or the gods of
 the Amorite, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my
 house, we will serve Jehovah.
24:16 And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that
 we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;
24:17 for Jehovah our God, he it is that brought us up and our
 fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage,
 and who did those great signs before our eyes, and preserved us
 in all the way wherein we went, and among all the peoples
 through whom we passed!
24:18 And Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, and
 the Amorites the inhabitants of the land: so therefore we will
 serve Jehovah, for he is our God.
24:19 And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve Jehovah,
 for he is a holy God; he is a jealous ∙God; he will not forgive
 your transgressions nor your sins.
24:20 If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve strange gods, then he
 will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath
 done you good.
24:21 And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve
 Jehovah.
24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against
 yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah, to serve him. And
 they said, [We are] witnesses.
24:23 Now therefore put away the strange gods that are among
 you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah the God of Israel.
24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our God will we
 serve, and to his voice will we hearken.
24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and
 set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of
 God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak
 that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah.
24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone
 shall be a witness unto us, for it hath heard all the words of
 Jehovah which he spoke unto us; and it shall be a witness
 against you, lest ye deny your God.
24:28 And Joshua dismissed the people, every man to his
 inheritance.
24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the
 son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, a hundred and ten
 years old.
24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
 Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of
 the mountain of Gaash.
24:31 And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all
 the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua,
 and who had known all the works of Jehovah, which he had done
 for Israel.
24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had
 brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in the portion
 of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor,
 Shechem's father, for a hundred kesitahs; and it became the
 inheritance of the children of Joseph.
24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in
 the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given him in mount
 Ephraim.