Joshua, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of
[1>]the LORD,[<1] that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses'
servant, saying, {1:2} "Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise,
go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I
give to them, even to the children of Israel. {1:3} I have given you
every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.
{1:4} From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river,
the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great
sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. {1:5} No
man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I
was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake
you.
{1:6} "Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to
inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. {1:7}
Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all
the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Don't turn from it to
the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever
you go. {1:8} This scroll of the Torah shall not depart out of your
mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may
observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you
shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
{1:9} Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be
afraid, neither be dismayed: for the LORD your [2>]God[<2] is with you
wherever you go."
{1:10} Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
{1:11} "Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people,
saying, 'Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this
Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God gives
you to possess it.'"
{1:12} Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to
the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying, {1:13} "Remember the word which
Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, 'The LORD your
God gives you rest, and will give you this land. {1:14} Your wives,
your little ones, and your livestock, shall live in the land which
Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but you shall pass over before your
brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them
{1:15} until the LORD has given your brothers rest, as he has given
you, and they have also possessed the land which the LORD your God
gives them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession, and
possess it, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the
Jordan toward the sunrise.'"
{1:16} They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us
we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. {1:17} Just as we
listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may
the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses. {1:18} Whoever
rebels against your commandment, and doesn't listen to your words in
all that you command him, he shall be put to death. Only be strong and
courageous."
{2:1} Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as
spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and
came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept
there.
{2:2} The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of
Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land."
{2:3} The king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men
who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have
come to spy out all the land."
{2:4} The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "Yes,
the men came to me, but I didn't know where they came from. {2:5} It
happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark,
that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them
quickly; for you will overtake them." {2:6} But she had brought them
up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had
laid in order on the roof. {2:7} The men pursued them the way to the
Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued them had gone
out, they shut the gate. {2:8} Before they had laid down, she came up
to them on the roof; {2:9} and she said to the men, "I know that the
LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on
us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
{2:10} For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Sea of
Suf before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the
two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to
Og, whom you utterly destroyed. {2:11} As soon as we had heard it, our
hearts melted, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man,
because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and
on earth beneath. {2:12} Now therefore, please swear to me by the
LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal
kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token; {2:13} and
that you will save alive my father, my mother, my brothers, and my
sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from
death."
{2:14} The men said to her, "Our life for yours, if you don't talk
about this business of ours; and it shall be, when the LORD gives us
the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."
{2:15} Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her
house was on the side of the wall, and she lived on the wall. {2:16}
She said to them, "Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers find you; and
hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned.
Afterward, you may go your way."
{2:17} The men said to her, "We will be guiltless of this your oath
which you have made us to swear. {2:18} Behold, when we come into the
land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which
you used to let us down. You shall gather to yourself into the house
your father, your mother, your brothers, and all your father's
household. {2:19} It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of
your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will
be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on
our head, if any hand is on him. {2:20} But if you talk about this
business of ours, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you
have made us to swear."
{2:21} She said, "According to your words, so be it." She sent them
away, and they departed. She tied the scarlet line in the window.
{2:22} They went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three
days, until the pursuers had returned. The pursuers sought them
throughout all the way, but didn't find them. {2:23} Then the two men
returned, descended from the mountain, passed over, and came to Joshua
the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.
{2:24} They said to Joshua, "Truly the LORD has delivered into our
hands all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt
away before us."
{3:1} Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from
Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel.
They lodged there before they passed over. {3:2} It happened after
three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;
{3:3} and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of
the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing
it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it. {3:4} Yet
there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits
by measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which
you must go; for you have not passed this way before."
{3:5} Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow
the LORD will do wonders among you."
{3:6} Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the
covenant, and pass over before the people." They took up the ark of
the covenant, and went before the people.
{3:7} The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in
the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses,
so I will be with you. {3:8} You shall command the priests who bear
the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the
waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"
{3:9} Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear
the words of the LORD your God." {3:10} Joshua said, "Hereby you shall
know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail
drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the
Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out
from before you. {3:11} Behold, the ark of the covenant of the
[3>]Lord[<3] of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.
{3:12} Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for
every tribe a man. {3:13} It shall come to pass, when the soles of the
feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the
earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan
will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they
shall stand in one heap."
{3:14} It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass
over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being
before the people, {3:15} and when those who bore the ark had come to
the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in
the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the
time of harvest), {3:16} that the waters which came down from above
stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city
that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of
the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people
passed over right against Jericho. {3:17} The priests who bore the ark
of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of
the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the
nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
[2] {1:9} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
[3] {3:11} The word translated "Lord" (mixed case) is "Adonai."
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