Joshua, starting at chapter 4
{4:1} It happened, when all the nation had completely passed over
the Jordan, that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, {4:2} "Take twelve
men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, {4:3} and command
them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the
place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry
them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging place, where you
will lodge tonight.'"
{4:4} Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the
children of Israel, out of every tribe a man. {4:5} Joshua said to
them, "Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle
of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your
shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of
Israel; {4:6} that this may be a sign among you, that when your
children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these
stones?' {4:7} then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the
Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When
it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.
These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel
forever.'"
{4:8} The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up
twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to
Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of
Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they
lodged, and laid them down there. {4:9} Joshua set up twelve stones in
the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests
who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this
day. {4:10} For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of
the Jordan, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded
Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded
Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over. {4:11} It happened,
when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of the
LORD passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.
{4:12} The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of
Israel, as Moses spoke to them. {4:13} About forty thousand men, ready
and armed for war passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains
of Jericho. {4:14} On that day, the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight
of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days
of his life.
{4:15} The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, {4:16} "Command the priests
who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the
Jordan."
{4:17} Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out
of the Jordan!" {4:18} It happened, when the priests who bore the ark
of the covenant of the LORD had come up out of the middle of the
Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry
ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and
went over all its banks, as before. {4:19} The people came up out of
the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in
Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
{4:20} Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the
Jordan, in Gilgal. {4:21} He spoke to the children of Israel, saying,
"When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What
do these stones mean?' {4:22} Then you shall let your children know,
saying, 'Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. {4:23} For the LORD
your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you
had passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Sea of Suf, which he
dried up from before us, until we had passed over; {4:24} that all the
peoples of the earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty;
that you may fear the LORD your God forever.'"
{5:1} It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were
beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who
were by the sea, heard how that the LORD had dried up the waters of
the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed
over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any
more, because of the children of Israel. {5:2} At that time, the LORD
said to Joshua, "Make flint knives, and circumcise again the children
of Israel the second time." {5:3} Joshua made himself flint knives,
and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
{5:4} This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came
out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the
wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. {5:5} For all the
people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were born
in the wilderness by the way as they came out of Egypt had not been
circumcised. {5:6} For the children of Israel walked forty years in
the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came out
of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of
the LORD. The LORD swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the
land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a
land flowing with milk and honey. {5:7} Their children, whom he raised
up in their place, were circumcised by Joshua; for they were
uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them on the way. {5:8}
It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation, that
they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
{5:9} The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the
reproach of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that place was
called [1>]Gilgal,[<1] to this day. {5:10} The children of Israel
encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of
the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. {5:11} They ate
unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of the land on the
next day after the Passover, in the same day. {5:12} The manna ceased
on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The
children of Israel didn't have manna any more; but they ate of the
fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
{5:13} It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up
his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his
sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you
for us, or for our adversaries?"
{5:14} He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of the LORD's
army."
Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to
him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
{5:15} The prince of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Take your
shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy."
Joshua did so.
{6:1} Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of
Israel. No one went out, and no one came in. {6:2} The LORD said to
Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king
and the mighty men of valor. {6:3} All your men of war shall march
around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six
days. {6:4} Seven priests shall bear seven [2>]shofars[<2] of rams'
horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the
city seven times, and the priests shall blow the [3>]shofars[<3].
{6:5} It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's
horn, and when you hear the sound of the [4>]shofar[<4], all the
people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall
fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before
him."
{6:6} Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them,
"Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven
[5>]shofars[<5] of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD."
{6:7} They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and
let the armed men pass on before the LORD's ark."
{6:8} It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the
seven priests bearing the seven [6>]shofars[<6] of rams' horns before
the LORD advanced, and blew the [7>]shofars[<7]; and the ark of the
covenant of the LORD followed them. {6:9} The armed men went before
the priests who blew the [8>]shofars[<8], and the ark went after them.
The [9>]shofars[<9] sounded as they went.
{6:10} Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout,
nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of
your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."
{6:11} So he caused the ark of the LORD to go around the city, going
about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
{6:12} Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the
ark of the LORD. {6:13} The seven priests bearing the seven
[10>]shofars[<10] of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on
continually, and blew the [11>]shofars[<11]: and the armed men went
before them. The rear guard came after the ark of the LORD. The
[12>]shofars[<12] sounded as they went. {6:14} The second day they
marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did
this six days.
{6:15} It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the
dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven
times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.
{6:16} It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the
[13>]shofars[<13], Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the LORD has
given you the city! {6:17} The city shall be devoted, even it and all
that is in it, to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she
and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers
that we sent. {6:18} But as for you, only keep yourselves from the
devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted
thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
{6:19} But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron,
are holy to the LORD. They shall come into the LORD's treasury."
{6:20} So the people shouted, and the priests blew the
[14>]shofars[<14]. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the
[15>]shofar[<15], that the people shouted with a great shout, and the
wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every
man straight before him, and they took the city. {6:21} They utterly
destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and
old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword. {6:22}
Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the
prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and all that
she has, as you swore to her." {6:23} The young men who were spies
went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her
brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all her
relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel. {6:24}
They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put
the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the
treasury of the LORD's house. {6:25} But Rahab the prostitute, her
father's household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She
lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the
messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
{6:26} Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying,
"Cursed is the man before the LORD, who rises up and builds this city
Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation,
and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."
{6:27} So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
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Footnotes:
[1] {5:9} "Gilgal" sounds like the Hebrew for "roll."
[2] {6:4} or, trumpets
[3] {6:4} or, trumpets
[4] {6:5} or, trumpet
[5] {6:6} or, trumpets
[6] {6:8} or, trumpets
[7] {6:8} or, trumpets
[8] {6:9} or, trumpets
[9] {6:9} or, trumpets
[10] {6:13} or, trumpets
[11] {6:13} or, trumpets
[12] {6:13} or, trumpets
[13] {6:16} or, trumpets
[14] {6:20} or, trumpets
[15] {6:20} or, trumpet
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