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[1][Sefer Yahushua] And it was after the death of Mosheh that YHWH said to Yahushua the son of Nun, saying,
[2]Rise up and pass the Yardan to the land which I have given to the children of Israel, and you shall make the children of Israel inherit the land.
[3]Every place upon which the sole of your feet shall tread shall belong to you, from the wilderness of Lebanon unto the great river the river of P'rat shall be your boundary.
[4]No man shall stand up against you all the days of your life; as I was with Mosheh, so will I be with you, only be strong and of good courage to observe all the law which Mosheh commanded you, turn not from the way either to the right or to the left, in order that you may prosper in all that you do.
[5]And Yahushua commanded the officers of Israel, saying, Pass through the camp and command the people, saying, Prepare for yourselves provisions, for in three days more you will pass the Yardan to possess the land.
[6]And the officers of the children of Israel did so, and they commanded the people and they did all that Yahushua had commanded.
[7]And Yahushua sent two men to spy out the land of Yericho, and the men went and spied out Yericho.
[8]And at the end of seven days they came to Yahushua in the camp and said to him, YHWH has delivered all the land into our hand, and the inhabitants thereof are melted with fear because of us.
[9]And it came to pass after that, that Yahushua rose up in the morning and all Israel with him, and they journeyed from Shittim, and Yahushua and all Israel with him passed the Yardan; and Yahushua was eighty-two years old when he passed the Yardan with Israel.
[10]And the people went up from Yardan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped in Gilgal at the eastern corner of Yericho.
[11]And the children of Israel kept the Passover in Gilgal, in the plains of Yericho, on the fourteenth day at the month, as it is written in the Torah of Mosheh.
[12]And the manna ceased at that time on the morrow of the Passover, and there was no more manna for the children of Israel, and they ate of the produce of the land of Kanaan.
[13]And Yericho was entirely closed against the children of Israel, no one came out or went in.
[14]And it was in the second month, on the first day of the month, that YHWH said to Yahushua, Rise up, behold I have given Yericho into your hand with all the people thereof; and all your fighting men shall go round the city, once each day, thus shall you do for six days.
[15]And the priests shall blow upon shofarot [trumpets; typically made from a ram's horn], and when you shall hear the sound of the shofar, all the people shall give a great shouting, that the walls of the city shall fall down; all the people shall go up every man against his opponent.
[16]And Yahushua did so according to all that YHWH had commanded him.
[17]And on the seventh day they went round the city seven times, and the priests blew upon shofarot.
[18]And at the seventh round, Yahushua said to the people, Shout, for YHWH has delivered the whole city into our hands.
[19]Only the city and all that it contains shall be accursed to YHWH, and keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
[20]But all the silver and gold and brass and iron shall be consecrated to YHWH, they shall come into the treasury of YHWH.
[21]And the people blew upon trumpets and made a great shouting, and the walls of Yericho fell down, and all the people went up, every man straight before him, and they took the city and utterly destroyed all that was in it, both man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, with the edge of the sword.
[22]And they burned the whole city with fire; only the vessels of silver and gold, and brass and iron, they put into the treasury of YHWH.
[23]And Yahushua swore at that time, saying, Cursed be the man who builds Yericho; he shall lay the foundation thereof in his first-born, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates thereof.
[24]And Akan the son of Carmi, the son of Zavdi, the son of Zerach, son of Y'hudah, dealt treacherously in the accursed thing, and he took of the accursed thing and hid it in the tent, and the anger of YHWH was kindled against Israel.
[25]And it was after this when the children of Israel had returned from burning Yericho, Yahushua sent men to spy out also Ai, and to fight against it.
[26]And the men went up and spied out Ai, and they returned and said, Let not all the people go up with you to Ai, only let about three thousand men go up and smite the city, for the men thereof are but few.
[27]And Yahushua did so, and there went up with him of the children of Israel about three thousand men, and they fought against the men of Ai.
[28]And the battle was severe against Israel, and the men of Ai smote thirty-six men of Israel, and the children of Israel fled from before the men of Ai.
[29]And when Yahushua saw this thing, he tore his garments and fell upon his face to the ground before YHWH, he, with the elders of Israel, and they put dust upon their heads.
[30]And Yahushua said, Why YHWH did you bring this people over the Yardan? what shall I say after the Israelites have turned their backs against their enemies?
[31]Now therefore all the Kanaanites, inhabitants of the land, will hear this thing, and surround us and cut off our name.
[32]And YHWH said to Yahushua, Why do you fall upon your face? rise, get you off, for the Israelites have sinned, and taken of the accursed thing; I will no more be with them unless they destroy the accursed thing from among them.
[33]And Yahushua rose up and assembled the people, and brought the Urim by the order of YHWH, and the tribe of Y'hudah was taken, and Akan the son of Karmi was taken.
[34]And Yahushua said to Akan, Tell me my son, what have you done, and Akan said, I saw among the spoil a goodly garment of Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight; I coveted them and took them, and behold they are all hid in the earth in the midst of the tent.
[35]And Yahushua sent men who went and took them from the tent of Akan, and they brought them to Yahushua.
[36]And Yahushua took Akan and these utensils, and his sons and daughters and all belonging to him, and they brought them into the valley of Achor.
[37]And Yahushua burned them there with fire, and all the Israelites stoned Akan with stones, and they raised over him a heap of stones, therefore did he call that place the valley of Akor, so YHWH's anger was appeased, and Yahushua afterward came to the city and fought against it.
[38]And YHWH said to Yahushua, Fear not, neither be you dismayed, behold I have given into your hand Ai, her king and her people, and you shall do unto them as you did to Yericho and her king, only the spoil thereof and the cattle thereof shall you take for a prey for yourselves; lay an ambush for the city behind it.
[39]So Yahushua did according to the word of YHWH, and he chose from among the sons of war thirty thousand valiant men, and he sent them, and they lay in ambush for the city.
[40]And he commanded them, saying, When you shall see us we will flee before them with cunning, and they will pursue us, you shall then rise out of the ambush and take the city, and they did so.
[41]And Yahushua fought, and the men of the city went out toward Israel, not knowing that they were lying in ambush for them behind the city.
[42]And Yahushua and all the Israelites feigned themselves wearied out before them, and they fled by the way of the wilderness with cunning.
[43]And the men of Ai gathered all the people who were in the city to pursue the Israelites, and they went out and were drawn away from the city, not one remained, and they left the city open and pursued the Israelites.
[44]And those who were lying in ambush rose up out of their places, and hastened to come to the city and took it and set it on fire, and the men of Ai turned back, and behold the smoke of the city ascended to the skies, and they had no means of retreating either one way or the other.
[45]And all the men of Ai were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side, and they smote them so that not one of them remained.
[46]And the children of Israel took Melosh king of Ai alive, and they brought him to Yahushua, and Yahushua hanged him on a tree and he died.
[47]And the children of Israel returned to the city after having burned it, and they smote all those that were in it with the edge of the sword.
[48]And the number of those that had fallen of the men of Ai, both man and woman, was twelve thousand; only the cattle and the spoil of the city they took to themselves, according to the word of YHWH to Yahushua.
[49]And all the kings on this side Yardan, all the kings of Kanaan, heard of the evil which the children of Israel had done to Yericho and to Ai, and they gathered themselves together to fight against Israel.
[50]Only the inhabitants of Givon were greatly afraid of fighting against the Israelites lest they should perish, so they acted cunningly, and they came to Yahushua and to all Israel, and said unto them, We have come from a distant land, now therefore make a covenant with us.
[51]And the inhabitants of Givon over-reached the children of Israel, and the children of Israel made a covenant with them, and they made peace with them, and the princes of the congregation swore unto them, but afterward the children of Israel knew that they were neighbors to them and were dwelling among them.
[52]But the children of Israel slew them not; for they had sworn to them by YHWH, and they became hewers of wood and drawers of water.
[53]And Yahushua said to them, Why did you deceive me, to do this thing to us? and they answered him, saying, Because it was told to your servants all that you had done to all the kings of the Amorites, and we were greatly afraid of our lives, and we did this thing.
[54]And Yahushua appointed them on that day to hew wood and to draw water, and he divided them for slaves to all the tribes of Israel.
[55]And when Adoni-Tzedek king of Jerusalem heard all that the children of Israel had done to Yericho and to Ai, he sent to Hoham king of Chevron and to Piram king at Yarmut, and to Yafia king of Lachish and to D'ver king of Eglon, saying,
[56]Come up to me and help me, that we may smite the children of Israel and the inhabitants of Givon who have made peace with the children of Israel.
[57]And they gathered themselves together and the five kings of the Amorites went up with all their camps, a mighty people numerous as the sand of the sea shore.
[58]And all these kings came and encamped before Givon, and they began to fight against the inhabitants of Givon, and all the men of Givon sent to Yahushua, saying, Come up quickly to us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites have gathered together to fight against us.
[59]And Yahushua and all the fighting people went up from Gilgal, and Yahushua came suddenly to them, and smote these five kings with a great slaughter.
[60]And YHWH confounded them before the children at Israel, who smote them with a terrible slaughter in Givon, and pursued them along the way that goes up to Beit Choron unto Makkedah, and they fled from before the children of Israel.
[61]And while they were fleeing, YHWH sent upon them hailstones from heaven, and more of them died by the hailstones, than by the slaughter of the children of Israel.
[62]And the children of Israel pursued them, and they still smote them in the road, going on and smiting them.
[63]And when they were smiting, the day was declining toward evening, and Yahushua said in the eyes of all the people, Sun, stand you still upon Givon, and you moon in the valley of Ayalon, until the nation shall have revenged itself upon its enemies.
[64]And YHWH hearkened to the voice of Yahushua, and the sun stood still in the midst of the heavens, and it stood still six and thirty times, and the moon also stood still and hastened not to go down a whole day.
[65]And there was no day like that, before it or after it, that YHWH hearkened to the voice of a man, for YHWH fought for Israel.
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