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The Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River across from Jericho.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan River across from Jericho. They said,

These are those who were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the Israelites in the plains of Moab along the Jordan River opposite Jericho.

They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho.

They traveled from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan River across from Jericho.

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

The two and a half tribes have received their inheritance on this side of the Jordan, east of Jericho, toward the sunrise."

Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the Moabite plains by the Jordan near Jericho. He said:

These are the commandments and the decisions that the Lord commanded the Israelites through the authority of Moses, on the plains of Moab by the Jordan River opposite Jericho.

"Go up to this Abarim hill country, to Mount Nebo (which is in the land of Moab opposite Jericho) and look at the land of Canaan that I am giving to the Israelites as a possession.

Then Moses ascended from the deserts of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. The Lord showed him the whole land—Gilead to Dan,

the Negev, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of the date palm trees, as far as Zoar.

Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them: "Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho." They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.

The king of Jericho received this report: "Note well! Israelite men have come here tonight to spy on the land."

So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab: "Turn over the men who came to you—the ones who came to your house—for they have come to spy on the whole land!"

the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam (the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.

About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the Lord to fight on the plains of Jericho.

The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the plains of Jericho.

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. Joshua approached him and asked him, "Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?"