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Death of Moses.

CHAP. I.

Joshua succeeds him.

with the heads of the people, he executed Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land the justice of the LORD, and his judgments of Judah, unto the utmost sea, with Israel.

22 ¶ And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from Bashan.

23 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the LORD, possess thou the west and the south.

24 ¶ And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.

3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar.

4 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.

5 ¶ So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD.

25 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy strength be. 6 ¶ And he buried him in a valley in 26 There is none like unto the God the land of Moab, over against Beth-peor: of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto in thy help, and in his excellency on the this day. sky.

7 And Moses was a hundred and 27 The eternal God is thy refuge, and twenty years old when he died: his eye underneath are the everlasting arms and was not dim, nor his natural force abated. he shall thrust out the enemy from before 8 And the children of Israel wept for thee; and shall say, Destroy them. Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: 28 Israel then shall dwell in safety so the days of weeping and mourning for alone; the fountain of Jacob shall be upon Moses were ended.

a land of corn and wine, also his heavens shall drop down dew.

9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had 29 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is laid his hands upon him: and the children like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the shield of thy help, and who is the the LORD commanded Moses. sword of thy excellency! and thine ene- 10 And there arose not a prophet mies shall be found liars unto thee; and since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the thou shalt tread upon their high places. LORD knew face to face,

CHAP. XXXIV.

AND Moses went up from the plains of

Moab, unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho: and the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

11 In all the signs and the wonders

which the LORD sent him to do in the land

of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Moses shewed 2 And all Naphtali, and the land of in the sight of all Israel.

1 The Book of JOSHUA.

CHAP. I.

6 Be strong and of a good courage : for TOW after the death of Moses, the ser- unto this people shalt thou divide for an

Now cases, to pass, interitance the land, which I sware unto

that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son their fathers to give them. of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,

7 Only be thou strong and very cou2 Moses my servant is dead; now there-rageous, that thou mayest observe to do acfore arise, go over this Jordan, thou and cording to all the law which Moses my all this people, unto the land which I do servant commanded thee: turn not from give to them, even to the children of Israel. it to the right hand or to the left, that 3 Every place that the sole of your foot thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou shall tread upon, that have I given unto goest. you, as I said unto Moses.

8 This book of the law shall not depart

4 From the wilderness and this Leba- out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate non even unto the great river, the river therein day and night, that thou mayest Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and observe to do according to all that is writunto the great sea toward the going down ten therein: for then thou shalt make thy of the sun, shall be your coast. way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

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5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as was with Moses, so I will be with thee: will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the

God instructs Joshua.

JOSHUA.

Rahab conceals the spies.

LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever that the men went out: whither the men went, I wot not: pursue after them quick

thou goest.
10 Then Joshua commanded the ly; for ye shall overtake them.
officers of the people, saying,

6 But she had brought them up to the

11 Pass through the host and command roof of the house, and hid them with the the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; stalks of flax, which she had laid in order for within three days ye shall pass over upon the roof. this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,

13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.

7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

8 T And before they were lain down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which 10 For we have heard how the LORD Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but dried up the water of the Red sea for you, ye shall pass before your brethren armed, when ye came out of Egypt; and what all the mighty men of valour, and help ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites them; that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon

15 Until the LORD have given your and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. brethren rest, as he hath given you, and 11 And as soon as we had heard these they also have possessed the land which things, our hearts did melt, neither did the LORD your God giveth them: then there remain any more courage in any ye shall return unto the land of your man, because of you: for the LORD your possession, and enjoy it, which Mo-God, he is God in heaven above, and in ses the LORD's servant gave you on this earth beneath. side Jordan toward the sun-rising.

12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear

16 And they answered Joshua say- unto me by the LORD, since I have shew ing, All that thou commandest us, we ed you kindness, that ye will also shew will do, and whithersoever thou sendest kindness unto my father's house, and give us, we will go. me a true token:

17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.

13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel 14 And the men answered her, Our life against thy commandment, and will not for yours, if ye utter not this our business. hearken unto thy words in all that thou And it shall be, when the LORD hath givcommandest him, he shall be put to death: en us the land, that we will deal kindly only be strong and of a good courage. and truly with thee.

CHAP. II.

15 Then she let them down by a cord ND Joshua the son of Nun sent out of through the window: for her house was Shittim two men to spy secretly, upon the town-wall, and she dwelt upon saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. the wall.

And they went, and came into a harlot's 16 And she said unto them, Get you to house, named Rahab, and lodged there. the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, and hide yourselves there three days, unsaying, Behold, there came men in hither til the pursuers be returned: and afterto-night of the children of Israel, to search ward may ye go your way.

out the country.

17 And the men said unto her, We

3 And the king of Jericho sent unto will be blaineless of this thine oath which Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that thou hast made us swear.

are come to thee, which are entered into 18 Behold, when we come into the land, thy house for they be come to search thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread out all the country. in the window which thou didst let us

4 And the woman took the two men, down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and hid them, and said thus, There came and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all men unto me, but I wist not whence they thy father's household home unto thee. 19 And it shall be, that whosoever

were:

5 And it came to pass about the time of shall go out of the doors of thy house into shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the street, his blood shall be upon his head,

Joshua comes to Jordan.

CHAP. III, IV.

The river divides. and we will be guiltless and whosoever before you the Canaanites, and the Hitshall be with thee in the house, his blood tites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, shall be on our head, if any hand be upon and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and him. the Jebusites.

20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

21 And she said, According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

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11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.

12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as 22 And they went, and came unto the the soles of the feet of the priests that bear mountain, and abode there three days, the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the until the pursuers were returned: and earth, shail rest in the waters of Jordan, the pursuers sought them throughout all that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off the way, but found them not. from the waters that come down from

23 So the two men returned, and de-above; and they shall stand upon a heap. scended from the mountain, and passed 14 And it came to pass, when the peoover, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, ple removed from their tents to pass over and told him all things that befel them : Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of 24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the covenant before the people; the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.

CHAP. III.

15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overflow

AND Joshua rose early in the morning; eth all his banks all the time of harvest,)

and they removed from Shittim, and 16 That the waters which came down came to Jordan, he and all the children of from above stood and rose up upon a Israel, and lodged there before they pass-heap very far from the city Adam, that is ed over. beside Zaretan; and those that came down 2 And it came to pass after three days, toward the sea of the plain, even the salt that the officers went through the host; sea, failed, and were cut off: and the peo3 And they commanded the people, say-ple passed over right against Jericho. ing, When ye see the ark of the covenant 17 And the priests that bare the ark of of the LORD your God, and the priests the the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the from your place, and go after it. Israelites passed over on dry ground, until 4 Yet there shall be a space between all the people were passed clean over you and it, about two thousand cubits by Jordan. measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go;

CHAP. IV.

for ye have not passed this way heretofore AND it came to pass, when all the peo

5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.

ple were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, 3 And command ye them, saying, Take saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out and pass over before the people. And they of the place where the priests' feet stood took up the ark of the covenant, and went firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry before the people. them over with you, and leave them in the 7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, lodging-place where ye shall lodge this This day will I begin to magnify thee in night. the sight of all Israel, that they may know 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, that as I was with Moses, so I will be with whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man :

thee.

8 And thou shalt command the priests 5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, before the ark of the LORD your God into When ye are come to the brink of the water the midst of Jordan, and take you up every of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. man of you a stone upon his shoulder, ac9 And Joshua said unto the children cording unto the number of the tribes of of Israel, Come bither, and hear the words the children of Israel: of the LORD your God.

6 That this may be a sign among you, 10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall that when your children ask their fathers know that the living God is among you, in time to come, saying, What mean ye by and that he will without fail drive out from these stones?

The people pass over.

JOSHUA.

Circumcinon renewed.

God

7 Then ye shall answer them, That the 22 Then ye shall let your children know, waters of Jordan were cut off before the saying, Israel came over this Jordan on ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it dry land. passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan 23 For the LORD your God dried up the were cut off: and these stones shall be for a waters of Jordan from before you, until ye memorial unto the children of Israel forever. were passed over, as the LORD your 8 And the children of Israel did so as did to the Red sea, which he dried up from Joshua commanded, and took up twelve before us, until we were gone over: stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the 24 That all the people of the earth might LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the know the hand of the LORD, that it is number of the tribes of the children of mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your Israel, and carried them over with them God for ever. unto the place where they lodged, and laid

them down there.

CHAP. V.

9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in AND it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites which were on the the midst of Jordan, in the place where side of Jordan westward, and all the kings the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the Canaanites which were by the sea, of the covenant stood: and they are there heard that the LORD had dried up the waunto this day. ters of Jordan from before the children of

10 ¶ For the priests which bare the ark Israel, until we were passed over, that their stood in the midst of Jordan, until every heart melted; neither was there spirit in thing was finished that the LORD command-them any more, because of the children of ed Joshua to speak unto the people, accord- Israel. ing to all that Moses commanded Joshua: 2 At that time the LORD said unto and the people hasted and passed over. Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests in the presence of the people.

3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Ma- 4 And this is the cause why Joshua did nasseh, passed over armed before the chil- circumcise: All the people that came out dren of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: of Egypt, that were males,even all the men 13 About forty thousand prepared for of war died in the wilderness by the way, war, passed over before the LORD unto after they came out of Egypt. battle, to the plains of Jericho. 5 Now all the people that came out were 14 On that day the LORD magnified circumcised; but all the people that were Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they born in the wilderness by the way as they feared him as they feared Moses, all the came forth out of Egypt, them they had days of his life. not circumcised.

15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.

6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war which came out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom 17 Joshua therefore commanded the the LORD Sware that he would not shew priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. them the land which the LORD Sware unto 18 And it came to pass, when the priests their fathers that he would give us, a land that bare the ark of the covenant of the that floweth with milk and honey. LORD were come up out of the midst of Jor- 7 And their children, whom he raised dan, and the soles of the priests' feet were up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters for they were uncircumcised, because they of Jordan returned unto their place, and had not circumcised them by the way. flowed overall his banks, as they did before. 8 And it came to pass when they had 19 And the people came up out of done circumcising all the people, that they Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, abode in their places in the camp, till they and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border were whole.

of Jericho.

9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This 20 T And those twelve stones which day have I rolled away the reproach of they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch Egypt from off you: Wherefore the name in Gilgal. of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. 21 And he spake unto the children of 10 And the children of Israel encampIsrael, saying, When your children shall ed in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the ask their fathers in time to come, saying, fourteenth day of the month at even, in What mean these stones? the plains of Jericho.

An angel appears to Joshua.

CHAP. VI.

The walls of Jericho fall.

11 And they did eat of the old corn of priests going on, and blowing with the the land on the morrow after the passover, trumpets. unleavened cakes and parched corn in the 10 And Joshua had commanded the self-same day. people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor 12 T And the manna ceased on the mor- make any noise with your voice, neither row after they had eaten of the old corn of shall any word proceed out of your mouth, the land; neither had the children of Israel until the day I bid you shout, then shall manna any more; but they did eat of the ye shout. fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

camp.

11 So the ark of the LORD compassed 13 ¶ And it came to pass when Joshua the city, going about it once: and they was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes came into the camp, and lodged in the and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our LORD. adversaries?

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12¶ And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the

13 And seven priests bearing seven

14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the host of the LORD am I now come. And the LORD went on continually, and blew Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and with the trumpets: and the armed men did worship, and said unto him, What went before them; but the rere-ward saith my lord unto his servant? came after the ark of the LORD, the priests 15 And the captain of the LORD's host going on, and blowing with the trumpets. said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off 14 And the second day they compassthy foot, for the place whereon thou stand-ed the city once, and returned into the est is holy and Joshua did so. camp. So they did six days. CHAP. VI. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh TOW Jericho was straitly shut up be-day, that they rose early about the dawn

went out, and none came in.

after the same manner seven times: only 2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, on that day they compassed the city seven I have given into thy hand Jericho, and times.

the king thereof, and the mighty men of 16 And it came to pass at the seventh valour. time, when the priests blew with the trum3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye pets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout men of war, and go round about the city for the LORD hath given you the city. once: thus shalt thou do six days. 17 And the city shall be accursed,

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4 And seven priests shall bear before even it, and all that are therein, to the the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, and the seventh day ye shall compass the she and all that are with her in the house, city seven times, and the priests shall because she hid the messengers that we blow with the trumpets. sent.

from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

5 And it shall come to pass, that when 18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated un6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun called to the LORD: they shall come into the the priests, and said unto them, Take up treasury of the LORD.

the ark of the covenant, and let seven 20 So the people shouted when the priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns priests blew with the trumpets: and it before the ark of the LORD. came to pass, when the people heard the 7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, sound of the trumpet, and the people and compass the city, and let him that is shouted with a great shout, that the wall armed pass on before the ark of the LORD. fell down flat, so that the people went up 8 T And it came to pass, when Joshua into the city, every man straight before had spoken unto the people, that the se- him, and they took the city. ven priests bearing the seven trumpets of 21 And they utterly destroyed all that rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and was in the city, both man and woman, blew with the trumpets: and the ark of young and old, and ox, and sheep, and the covenant of the LORD followed them. ass, with the edge of the sword.

9 T And the armed men went before 22 But Joshua had said unto the two the priests that blew with the trumpets, men that had spied out the country, Go and the rere-ward came after the ark, the into the harlot's house, and bring out thence

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