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Moses was 120 years old when he died. But his eyes were not weak, and his strength had not left him.

Your wives, your children and your cattle will stay in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But you and all your strong-hearted soldiers will cross the river dressed for battle in front of your brothers. You will help them

But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. She said, "Yes, the men came to me. But I did not know where they were from.

But she had brought them up to the roof and had hidden them under the grain she had put up there.

If anyone goes out through the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his own head. We will not be guilty for his death. But if a hand is laid upon anyone who is with you in the house, his blood will be on our head.

They left and came to the hill country and stayed there for three days until those who were looking for them returned. The men had looked for them all along the road, but had not found them.

Then you may know the way to go, for you have not passed this way before. But stay about 1,000 long steps away from it. Do not come near it."

All the people who came out went through this religious act. But all the people who were born in the desert on the way from Egypt had not gone through this religious act.

The bread from heaven stopped on the day after they had eaten some of the food of the land. So the people of Israel no longer had bread from heaven. But they ate food of the land of Canaan during that year.

But Joshua told the people, "Do not call out or let your voice be heard. Not a word should come from your mouth until the day I tell you to call out. Then you must call out."

On the seventh day they got up early at the rising of the sun. They walked around the city in the same way, but on that day they walked around the city seven times.

But keep yourselves from the things that are to be destroyed. Or while you give them up to be destroyed, you might desire them. Then you would make the camp of Israel sinful also, and bring trouble on it.

But all the silver and gold and objects of brass and iron are holy to the Lord. They will go into the store-house of the Lord."

But the people of Israel sinned with the things that were to be destroyed. Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, from the family of Judah, took some of the things that were to be destroyed. So the Lord was very angry with the people of Israel.

So about 3,000 men of Israel went, but they ran away from the men of Ai.

He told them, "See, you are going to fight the city from behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready.

When Joshua sent them away, they went to the hiding place. They waited between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai. But Joshua stayed that night among the people.

So they put the men in their places. There was the army on the north side of the city, and the secret army on the west side of the city. But Joshua stayed that night in the center of the valley.

The king of Ai saw this. So the men of the city were quick to get up early and go out to meet Israel in battle at the chosen place near the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an army hiding behind the city.

But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua.