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Then the people of Israel went to the plains of Moab, and they camped near the Jordan River across from Jericho.

Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke to the people on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River, across from Jericho. They said,

Moses and Eleazar the priest counted all these people. They counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.

Then they brought the captives, the animals, and the goods back to Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the Israelites. Their camp was on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

They left the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab near the Jordan River across from Jericho.

On the plains of Moab by the Jordan River across from Jericho, the Lord spoke to Moses. He said,

These two and one-half tribes received land east of the Jordan River, across from Jericho."

The Lord spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab across from Jericho by the Jordan River. He said,

These were the laws and commands that the Lord gave to the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan River, across from Jericho.

"Go up the Abarim Mountains, to Mount Nebo in the country of Moab, across from Jericho. Look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as their own.

Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Mount Pisgah, across from Jericho. From there the Lord showed him all the land from Gilead to Dan,

as well as the southern desert and the whole Valley of Jericho up to Zoar. (Jericho is called the city of palm trees.)

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent out two spies from Acacia and said to them, "Go and look at the land, particularly at the city of Jericho." So the men went to Jericho and stayed at the house of a prostitute named Rahab.

Someone told the king of Jericho, "Some men from Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land."

So the king of Jericho sent this message to Rahab: "Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house. They have come to spy out our whole land."

the water upstream stopped flowing. It stood up in a heap a great distance away at Adam, a town near Zarethan. The water flowing down to the Sea of Arabah (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed the river near Jericho.

About forty thousand soldiers prepared for war passed before the Lord as they marched across the river, going toward the plains of Jericho.

The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped at Gilgal, east of Jericho.

The people of Israel were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho. It was there, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, they celebrated the Passover Feast.

Joshua was near Jericho when he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a sword in his hand. Joshua went to him and asked, "Are you a friend or an enemy?"