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And they said to Joshua, The LORD has delivered all the land into our hands; for the inhabitants of the land are afraid of us.

And there shall be a space between you and the ark, about two thousand cubits by measure; you shall not come near to it, that you may know the way by which you shall go; for you have not passed this way before.

And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.

And as soon as those that bore the ark reached the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who were bearing the ark were dipped in the brim of the water (for the Jordan overflows its banks all the time of harvest);

That the waters that flowed down from above piled up as though they were in sheepskins, one beside the other; and extended for a long distance from the town of Aram, that is beside Zaretan; and those that flowed down toward the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, failed to flow, and were divided; and the people passed over opposite Jericho.

Then you shall tell them, The waters of the Jordan were divided before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when we passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were divided; and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel for ever.

About forty thousand men armed for war passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before them, until they passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us until we passed over;

So that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and that you may worship the LORD your God for ever.

At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make for yourself a flint knife, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

So Joshua made a flint knife for himself, and circumcised the children of Israel the second time at the Hill of the Uncircumcised.

For the children of Israel journeyed forty years in the wilderness, until all the people who were men of war and came out of Egypt had perished, because they did not obey the voice of their LORD; to whom the LORD had sworn that he would not show them the land which he had sworn to their fathers that he would give them, a land that flows with milk and honey.

And it was their children who came after them that Joshua circumcised; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the journey.

And the commander of the LORDS host said to Joshua, Take your shoes from off your feet; for the place whereon you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.

And you shall encircle the city, all the men of war, and you shall go round about the city once a day. Thus shall you do for six days.

And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned to the camp; so they did for six days.

At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for the LORD has delivered the city to you.

And as for you, you are to be careful of the devoted things, lest you defile yourselves by taking some of the devoted things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

BUT the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achar, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things, and hid them; and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up, and destroy Ai; and do not send all the people there, for the men of Ai are but few.