Yehoshua, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} Now it happened after the death of Moshe the servant of the
LORD, that the LORD spoke to Yehoshua the son of Nun, Moshe#s
minister, saying, {1:2} Moshe my servant is dead; now therefore arise,
go over this Yarden, you, and all this people, to the land which I do
give to them, even to the children of Yisra'el. {1:3} Every place that
the sole of your foot shall tread on, to you have I given it, as I
spoke to Moshe. {1:4} From the wilderness, and this Levanon, even to
the great river, the river Perat, all the land of the Hitti, and to
the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
{1:5} There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days
of your life. As I was with Moshe, so I will be with you; I will not
fail you, nor forsake you. {1:6} Be strong and of good courage; for
you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their
fathers to give them. {1:7} Only be strong and very courageous, to
observe to do according to all the law, which Moshe my servant
commanded you: don't turn from it to the right hand or to the left,
that you may have good success wherever you go. {1:8} This book of the
law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon
day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is
written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then
you shall have good success. {1:9} Haven't I commanded you? Be strong
and of good courage; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for the
LORD your God is with you wherever you go. {1:10} Then Yehoshua
commanded the officers of the people, saying, {1:11} Pass through the
midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare you
victuals; for within three days you are to pass over this Yarden, to
go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God gives you to
possess it. {1:12} To the Re'uveni, and to the Gadi, and to the
half-tribe of Menashsheh, spoke Yehoshua, saying, {1:13} Remember the
word which Moshe 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 cattle, shall abide in the land
which Moshe gave you beyond the Yarden; but you shall pass over before
your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
{1:15} until the LORD have given your brothers rest, as [he has given]
you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God
gives them: then you shall return to the land of your possession, and
possess it, which Moshe the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the
Yarden toward the sunrise. {1:16} They answered Yehoshua, saying, All
that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we
will go. {1:17} According as we listened to Moshe in all things, so
will we listen to you: only the LORD your God be with you, as he was
with Moshe. {1:18} Whoever he be who shall rebel against your
[1>]mitzvah[<1], and shall not listen to your words in all that you
command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of good
courage.
{2:1} Yehoshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies
secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Yericho. They went and came
into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rachav, and lay there.
{2:2} It was told the king of Yericho, saying, Behold, there came men
in here tonight of the children of Yisra'el to search out the land.
{2:3} The king of Yericho sent to Rachav, saying, Bring forth the men
who are come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have
come to search out all the land. {2:4} The woman took the two men, and
hid them; and she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know
whence they were: {2:5} and it happened about the time of the shutting
of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; where the men
went I don't know: pursue after them quickly; for you will overtake
them. {2:6} But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with
the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on the roof. {2:7} The
men pursued after them the way to the Yarden to the fords: and as soon
as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
{2:8} Before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;
{2:9} and she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the
land, and that the fear of you is fallen on us, and that all the
inhabitants of the land melt away before you. {2:10} For we have heard
how the LORD dried up the water of the Sea of Suf before you, when you
came out of Mitzrayim; and what you did to the two kings of the Amori,
who were beyond the Yarden, to Sichon and to `Og, whom you utterly
destroyed. {2:11} As soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt,
neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you:
for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and on [1>]eretz[<1]
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, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters,
and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death. {2:14}
The men said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't utter this our
business; and it shall be, when 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, Get you to the
mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there
three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go
your way. {2:17} The men said to her, We will be guiltless of this
your oath which you have made us to swear. {2:18} Behold, when we come
into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the
window which you did let us down by: and you shall gather to you into
the house your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all
your father's household. {2:19} It shall be, that whoever shall go out
of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his
head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the
house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him. {2:20}
But if you utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of your
oath which you have made us to swear. {2:21} She said, According to
your words, so be it. She sent them away, and they departed: and she
bound the scarlet line in the window. {2:22} They went, and came to
the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were
returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but
didn't find them. {2:23} Then the two men returned, and descended from
the mountain, and passed over, and came to Yehoshua the son of Nun;
and they told him all that had happened to them. {2:24} They said to
Yehoshua, Truly the LORD has delivered into our hands all the land;
and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.
{3:1} Yehoshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from
Shittim, and came to the Yarden, he and all the children of Yisra'el;
and they lodged there before they passed over. {3:2} It happened after
three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;
{3:3} and they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of
the covenant of the LORD your God, and the [1>]Kohanim[<1] the Levites
bearing it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it.
{3:4} Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know
the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way
heretofore. {3:5} Yehoshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves;
for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you. {3:6} Yehoshua spoke
to the [2>]Kohanim[<2], 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 Yehoshua, This day will
I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Yisra'el, that they may
know that, as I was with Moshe, so I will be with you. {3:8} You shall
command the [3>]Kohanim[<3] who bear the ark of the covenant, saying,
When you are come to the brink of the waters of the Yarden, you shall
stand still in the Yarden. {3:9} Yehoshua said to the children of
Yisra'el, Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God. {3:10}
Yehoshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you,
and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Kana`ani,
and the Hittite, and the Hivvi, and the Perizzi, and the Girgashi, and
the Amori, and the Yevusi. {3:11} Behold, the ark of the covenant of
the Lord of all the [4>]eretz[<4] passes over before you into the
Yarden. {3:12} Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of
Yisra'el, for every tribe a man. {3:13} It shall come to pass, when
the soles of the feet of the [5>]Kohanim[<5] who bear the ark of the
LORD, the Lord of all the [6>]eretz[<6], shall rest in the waters of
the Yarden, that the waters of the Yarden shall be cut off, even the
waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.
{3:14} It happened, when the people removed from their tents, to pass
over the Yarden, the [7>]Kohanim[<7] who bore the ark of the covenant
being before the people; {3:15} and when those who bore the ark were
come to the Yarden, and the feet of the [8>]Kohanim[<8] who bore the
ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Yarden 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 Tzaretan; and those that went down
toward the sea of the `Aravah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off:
and the people passed over right against Yericho. {3:17} The
[9>]Kohanim[<9] who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood
firm on dry ground in the midst of the Yarden; and all Yisra'el passed
over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the
Yarden.
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:18} commandment
[1] {2:11} earth
[1] {3:3} priests
[2] {3:6} priests
[3] {3:8} priests
[4] {3:11} earth
[5] {3:13} priests
[6] {3:13} earth
[7] {3:14} priests
[8] {3:15} priests
[9] {3:17} priests
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