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+THE HOLY BIBLE
+
+
+
+
+Translated from the Latin Vulgate
+
+
+Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,
+and Other Editions in Divers Languages
+
+
+THE OLD TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Douay
+A.D. 1609 & 1610
+
+and
+
+THE NEW TESTAMENT
+First Published by the English College at Rheims
+A.D. 1582
+
+
+With Annotations
+
+
+The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with
+the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner
+A.D. 1749-1752
+
+
+
+
+
+THE BOOK OF JOSUE
+
+This Book is called JOSUE, because it contains the history of what
+passed under him, and according to the common opinion was written by
+him. The Greeks call him Jesus: for Josue and Jesus in the Hebrew, are
+the same name, and have the same signification, viz., A SAVIOUR. And it
+was not without a mystery that he who was to bring the people into the
+land of promise should have his name changed from OSEE (for so he was
+called before, Num. 13.17,) to JOSUE or JESUS, to give us to understand,
+that Moses by his law could only bring the people within sight of the
+promised inheritance, but that our Saviour JESUS was to bring us into
+it.
+
+
+Josue Chapter 1
+
+Josue, encouraged by the Lord, admonisheth the people to prepare
+themselves to pass over the Jordan.
+
+1:1. Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the
+Lord, that the Lord spoke to Josue, the son of Nun, the minister of
+Moses, and said to him:
+
+1:2. Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this Jordan, thou
+and thy people with thee, into the land which I will give to the
+children of Israel.
+
+1:3. I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your foot shall
+tread upon, as I have said to Moses.
+
+1:4. From the desert, and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates,
+all the land of the Hethites, unto the great sea toward the going down
+of the sun, shall be your border.
+
+1:5. No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I
+have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor
+forsake thee.
+
+1:6. Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this
+people the land for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliver
+it to them.
+
+1:7. Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst
+observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee:
+turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst
+understand all things which thou dost.
+
+1:8. Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt
+meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things
+that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand
+it.
+
+1:9. Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, and
+be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things
+whatsoever thou shalt go to.
+
+1:10. And Josue commanded the princes of the people, saying: Pass
+through the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:
+
+1:11. Prepare your victuals: for after the third day you shall pass over
+the Jordan, and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God
+will give you.
+
+1:12. And he said to the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe
+of Manasses:
+
+1:13. Remember the word, which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded
+you, saying: The Lord your God hath given you rest, and all this land.
+
+1:14. Your wives, and children; and cattle, shall remain in the land
+which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan: but pass you over armed
+before your brethren all of you that are strong of hand, and fight for
+them,
+
+1:15. Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given you,
+and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them:
+and so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall
+dwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the
+Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.
+
+1:16. And they made answer to Josue, and said: All that thou hast
+commanded us, we will do: and whither soever thou shalt send us, we will
+go.
+
+1:17. As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will we obey thee also: only
+be the Lord thy God with thee, as he was with Moses.
+
+1:18. He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not obey all thy words, that
+thou shalt command him, let him die: only take thou courage, and do
+manfully.
+
+Josue Chapter 2
+
+Two spies are sent to Jericho, who are received and concealed by Rahab.
+
+2:1. And Josue, the son of Nun, sent from Setim two men, to spy
+secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land, and the city of
+Jericho. They went, and entered into the house of a woman that was a
+harlot, named Rahab, and lodged with her.
+
+2:2. And it was told the king of Jericho, and was said: Behold there are
+men come in hither, by night, of the children of Israel, to spy the
+land.
+
+2:3. And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring forth the men
+that came to thee, and are entered into thy house: for they are spies,
+and are come to view all the land.
+
+2:4. And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I confess they
+came to me, but I knew not whence they were:
+
+2:5. And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they also went
+out together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue after them
+quickly, and you will overtake them.
+
+2:6. But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and covered
+them with the stalks of flax, which was there.
+
+2:7. Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way that
+leadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were gone out,
+the gate was presently shut.
+
+2:8. The men that were hid were not yet asleep, when behold the woman
+went up to them, and said:
+
+2:9. I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of
+you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all
+strength.
+
+2:10. We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea, at
+your going in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to
+the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan, Sehon and
+Og whom you slew.
+
+2:11. And at the hearing these things, we were affrighted, and our heart
+fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us, at your coming
+in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth
+beneath.
+
+2:12. Now, therefore, swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have shewed
+mercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father's house: and give
+me a true token.
+
+2:13. That you will save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters,
+and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from death.
+
+2:14. They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou
+betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us the land, we
+will shew thee mercy and truth.
+
+2:15. Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for her house
+joined close to the wall.
+
+2:16. And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps
+they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they
+come back, and so you shall go on yonr way.
+
+2:17. And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath, which
+thou hast made us swear,
+
+2:18. If, when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a sign, and
+thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us down: and gather
+together thy father and mother, and brethren, and all thy kindred into
+thy house.
+
+2:19. Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his blood shall
+be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the blood of all that
+shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon our head, if any man
+touch them.
+
+2:20. But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad, we shall
+be quit of this oath, which thou hast made us swear.
+
+2:21. And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done: and sending
+them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window.
+
+2:22. But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there three
+days, till they that pursued them were returned. For having sought them
+through all the way, they found them not.
+
+2:23. And when they were gone back into the city, the spies returned,
+and came down from the mountain: and passing over the Jordan, they came
+to Josue, the son of Nun, and told him all that befel them,
+
+2:24. And said: the Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands,
+and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear.
+
+Josue Chapter 3
+
+The river Jordan is miraculously dried up for the passage of the
+children of Israel.
+
+3:1. And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they
+departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan: he, and all the children of
+Israel, and they abode there for three days.
+
+3:2. After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,
+
+3:3. And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant
+of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it,
+rise you up also, and follow them as they go before:
+
+3:4. And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand
+cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go:
+for you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near
+the ark.
+
+3:5. And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the
+Lord will do wonders among you.
+
+3:6. And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, and go
+before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it up, and
+walked before them.
+
+3:7. And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee
+before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with
+thee also.
+
+3:8. And do thou command the priests, that carry the ark of the
+covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the
+water of the Jordan, stand in it.
+
+3:9. And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither, and hear the
+word of the Lord your God.
+
+3:10. And again he said: By this you shall know, that the Lord, the
+living God, is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy, before
+your sight, the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the
+Pherezite, the Gergesite also, and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.
+
+3:11. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall
+go before you into the Jordan.
+
+3:12. Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.
+
+3:13. And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of
+the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the
+Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those
+that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap.
+
+3:14. So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan:
+and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before
+them.
+
+3:15. And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were
+dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had
+filled the banks of its channel,)
+
+3:16. The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and
+swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is
+called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran
+down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea)
+until they wholly failed.
+
+3:17. And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that
+carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry
+ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over,
+through the channel that was dried up.
+
+Josue Chapter 4
+
+Twelve stones are taken out of the river to be set up for a monument of
+the miracle; and other twelve are placed in the midst of the river.
+
+4:1. And when they were passed over, the Lord said to Josue:
+
+4:2. Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:
+
+4:3. And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the
+feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set
+in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.
+
+4:4. And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children
+of Israel, one out of every tribe,
+
+4:5. And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your God to the
+midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your
+shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,
+
+4:6. That it may be a sign among you: and when your children shall ask
+you tomorrow, saying: What means these stones?
+
+4:7. You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off before the
+ark of the covenant of the Lord when it passed over the same: therefore
+were these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel forever.
+
+4:8. The children of Israel therefore did as Josue commanded them,
+carrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as the Lord had
+commanded him according to the number of the children of Israel unto the
+place wherein they camped, and there they set them.
+
+4:9. And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of
+the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the
+covenant: and they are there until this present day.
+
+4:10. Now the priests that carried the ark, stood in the midst of the
+Jordan, till all things were accomplished, which the Lord had commanded
+Josue to speak to the people, and Moses had said to him. And the people
+made haste, and passed over.
+
+4:11. And when they had all passed over, the ark also of the Lord passed
+over, and the priests went before the people.
+
+4:12. The children of Ruben also, and Gad, and half the tribe of
+Manasses, went armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had
+commanded them.
+
+4:13. And forty thousand fighting men by their troops and bands, marched
+through the plains and fields of the city of Jericho.
+
+4:14. In that day the Lord magnified Josue in the sight of all Israel,
+that they should fear him, as they had feared Moses, while he lived.
+4:15. And he said to him:
+
+4:16. Command the priests, that carry the ark of the covenant, to come
+up out of the Jordan.
+
+4:17. And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the Jordan.
+
+4:18. And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
+were come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned
+into their channel, and ran as they were wont before.
+
+4:19. And the people came up out of the Jordan, the tenth day of the
+first month, and camped in Galgal, over against the east side of the
+city of Jericho.
+
+4:20. And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of
+the Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,
+
+4:21. And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask
+their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?
+
+4:22. You shall teach them, and say: Israel passed over this Jordan
+through the dry channel,
+
+4:23. The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight,
+until you passed over:
+
+4:24. As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up till we
+passed through:
+
+4:25. That all the people of the earth may learn the most mighty hand of
+the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God for ever.
+
+Josue Chapter 5
+
+The people are circumcised: they keep the pasch. The manna ceaseth. An
+angel appeareth to Josue.
+
+5:1. Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the
+Jordan, westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places
+near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of
+the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their
+heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the
+coming in of the children of Israel.
+
+5:2. At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make thee knives of stone, and
+circumcise the second time the children of Israel.
+
+The second time... Not that such as had been circumcised before were to
+be circumcised again; but that they were now to renew, and take up again
+the practice of circumcision; which had been omitted during their forty
+years' sojourning in the wilderness; by reason of their being always
+uncertain when they should be obliged to march.
+
+5:3. He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children
+of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.
+
+5:4. Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people
+that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for war, died in
+the desert, during the time of the long going about in the way:
+
+5:6. Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were born in
+the desert,
+
+5:6. During the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness, were
+uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that had not heard the voice
+of the Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew
+them the land flowing with milk and honey.
+
+5:7. The children of these succeeded in the place of their fathers, and
+were circumcised by Josue: for they were uncircumcised even as they were
+born, and no one had circumcised them in the way.
+
+5:8. Now after they were all circumcised, they remained in the same
+place of the camp, until they were healed.
+
+5:9. And the Lord said to Josue: This day have I taken away from you the
+reproach of Egypt. And the name of that place was called Galgal, until
+this present day.
+
+5:10. And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept the
+phase, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, in the plains of
+Jericho:
+
+5:11. And they ate on the next day unleavened bread of the corn of the
+land, and frumenty of the same year.
+
+5:12. And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land,
+neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate
+of the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.
+
+5:13. And when Josue was in the field of the city of Jericho, he lifted
+up his eyes, and saw a man standing over against him, holding a drawn
+sword, and he went to him, and said: Art thou one of ours, or of our
+adversaries?
+
+5:14. And he answered: No: but I am prince of the host of the Lord, and
+now I am come.
+
+Prince of the host of the Lord, etc... St. Michael, who is called prince
+of the people of Israel, Dan. 10.21.
+
+5:15. Josue fell on his face to the ground. And worshipping, said: What
+saith my lord to his servant?
+
+Worshipping... Not with divine honour, but with a religious veneration
+of an inferior kind, suitable to the dignity of his person.
+
+5:16. Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off thy feet: for the place
+whereon thou standest is holy. And Josue did as was commanded him.
+
+Josue Chapter 6
+
+After seven days' processions, the priests sounding the trumpets, the
+walls of Jericho fall down: and the city is taken and destroyed.
+
+6:1. Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the children
+of Israel, and no man durst go out or come in.
+
+6:2. And the Lord said to Josue: Behold I have given into thy hands
+Jericho, and the king thereof, and all the valiant men.
+
+6:3. Go round about the city all ye fighting men once a day: so shall ye
+do for six days.
+
+6:4. And on the seventh day the priests shall take the seven trumpets,
+which are used in the jubilee, and shall go before the ark of the
+covenant: and you shall go about the city seven times, and the priests
+shall sound the trumpets.
+
+6:5. And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and broken
+tune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall shout together
+with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the
+ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which
+they shall stand.
+
+6:6. Then Josue, the son of Nun, called the priests, and said to them:
+Take the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests take the seven
+trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.
+
+6:7. And he said to the people: Go, and compass the city, armed,
+marching before the ark of the Lord.
+
+6:8. And when Josue had ended his words, and the seven priests blew the
+seven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
+
+6:9. And all the armed men went before, the rest of the common people
+followed the ark, and the sound of the trumpets was heard on all sides.
+
+6:10. But Josue had commanded the people, saying: You shall not shout,
+nor shall your voice be heard, nor any word go out of your mouth: until
+the day come wherein I shall say to you: Cry, and shout.
+
+6:11. So the ark of the Lord went about the city once a day, and
+returning into the camp, abode there.
+
+6:12. And Josue rising before day, the priests took the ark of the Lord,
+
+6:13. And seven of them seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee:
+and they went before the ark of the Lord, walking and sounding the
+trumpets: and the armed men went before them, and the rest of the common
+people followed the ark, and they blew the trumpets.
+
+6:14. And they went round about the city the second day once, and
+returned into the camp. So they did six days.
+
+6:15. But the seventh day, rising up early, they went about the city, as
+it was ordered, seven times.
+
+6:16. And when in the seventh going about the priests sounded with the
+trumpets, Josue said to all Israel: Shout: for the Lord hath delivered
+the city to you:
+
+6:17. And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are in it,
+to the Lord. Let only Rahab, the harlot, live, with all that are with
+her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent.
+
+6:18. But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that are
+forbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp of
+Israel be under sin, and be troubled.
+
+6:19. But whatsoever gold or silver there shall be, or vessels of brass
+and iron, let it be consecrated to the Lord, laid up in his treasures.
+
+6:20. So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when
+the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the
+walls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was
+over against him: and they took the city,
+
+6:21. And killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and old. The
+oxen also, and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the edge of the
+sword.
+
+6:22. But Josue said to the two men that had been sent for spies: Go
+into the harlot's house, and bring her out, and all things that are
+hers, as you assured her by oath.
+
+6:23. And the young men went in, and brought out Rahab, and her parents,
+her brethren also, and all her goods, and her kindred, and made them to
+stay without the camp.
+
+6:24. But they burned the city, and all things that were therein; except
+the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron, which they
+consecrated unto the treasury of the Lord.
+
+6:25. But Josue saved Rahab the harlot, and her father's house, and all
+she had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day:
+because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho. At
+that time, Josue made an imprecation, saying:
+
+6:26. Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up and build
+the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the foundation thereof,
+and in the last of his children set up its gates.
+
+Cursed, etc... Jericho, in the mystical sense, signifies iniquity: the
+sounding of the trumpets by the priests, the preaching of the word of
+God; by which the walls of Jericho are thrown down, when sinners are
+converted; and a dreadful curse will light on them who build them up
+again.
+
+6:27. And the Lord was with Josue, and his name was noised throughout
+all the land.
+
+Josue Chapter 7
+
+For the sins of Achan, the Israelites are defeated at Hai. The offender
+is found out; and stoned to death, and God's wrath is turned from them.
+
+7:1. But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took
+to their own use of that which was accursed. For Achan, the son of
+Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda, took
+something of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the children
+of Israel.
+
+7:2. And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which is beside
+Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go
+up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed
+Hai.
+
+7:3. And returning, they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but
+let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why should all
+the people be troubled in vain, against enemies that are very few?
+
+7:4. There went up therefore three thousand fighting men: who
+immediately turned their backs,
+
+7:5. And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of
+them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as
+far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the
+heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.
+
+7:6. But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground, before
+the ark of the Lord, until the evening, both he and all the ancients of
+Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.
+
+7:7. And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this
+people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the
+Amorrhite, and to destroy us?  would God we had stayed beyond the
+Jordan, as we began.
+
+7:8. My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to
+their enemies?
+
+7:9. The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land, will hear of
+it, and being gathered together will surround us, and cut off our name
+from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?
+
+7:10. And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the
+ground?
+
+7:11. Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have
+taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among
+their goods.
+
+7:12. Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall flee
+from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no more
+with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.
+
+7:13. Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye sanctified
+against tomorrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The curse is in
+the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies,
+till he be destroyed out of thee, that is defiled with this wickedness.
+
+7:14. And you shall come in the morning, every one by your tribes: and
+what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds, and
+the kindred by its houses and tho house by the men.
+
+7:15. And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this fact, he
+shall be burnt with fire, with all his substance, because he hath
+transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in
+Israel.
+
+7:16. Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made Israel to come
+by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found.
+
+7:17. Which being brought by in families, it was found to be the family
+of Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it to be Zabdi:
+
+7:18. And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan, the son of
+Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare, of the tribe of Juda.
+
+7:19. And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord God of
+Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.
+
+7:20. And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I have sinned
+against the Lord, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.
+
+7:21. For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment, exceeding good, and
+two hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and I
+coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground in the
+midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.
+
+7:22. Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent, found all
+hid in the same place, together with the silver.
+
+7:23. And taking them away out of the tent, they brought them to Josue,
+and to all the children of Israel, and threw them down before the Lord.
+
+7:24. Then Josue, and all Israel with him, took Achan, the son of Zare,
+and the silver, and the garment, and the golden rule, his sons also, and
+his daughters, his oxen, and asses, and sheep, the tent also, and all
+the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor:
+
+His sons, etc... Probably conscious to, or accomplices of, the crime of
+their father.
+
+7:25. Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord trouble
+thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his,
+were consumed with fire.
+
+7:26. And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which
+remaineth until this present day And the wrath of the Lord was turned
+away from them.  And the name of that place was called the Valley of
+Achor, until this day.
+
+Achor... That is, trouble.
+
+Josue Chapter 8
+
+Hai is taken and burnt, and all the inhabitants slain. An altar is
+built, and sacrifices offered. The law is written on stones, and the
+blessings and cursings are read before all the people.
+
+8:1. And the Lord said to Josue: Fear not, nor be thou dismayed: take
+with thee all the multitude of fighting men, arise, and go up to the
+town of Hai: Behold I have delivered into thy hand the king thereof, and
+the people, and the city, and the land.
+
+8:2. And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as
+thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the spoils, and
+all the cattle, you shall take for a prey to yourselves: lay an ambush
+for the city behind it.
+
+8:3. And Josue arose, and all the army of the fighting men with him, to
+go up against Hai: and he sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in the
+night,
+
+8:4. And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the city: and go
+not very far from it: and be ye all ready.
+
+8:5. But I, and the rest of the multitude which is with me, will
+approach on the contrary side against the city.  And when they shall
+come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we did before:
+
+8:6. Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for they will
+think that we flee as before.
+
+8:7. And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall rise out of
+the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord your God will
+deliver it into your hands.
+
+8:8. And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do
+all things so as I have commanded.
+
+8:9. And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the ambush,
+and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city of Hai.
+But Josue staid that night in the midst of the people,
+
+8:10. And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and
+went up with the ancients in the front of the army, environed with the
+aid of the fighting men.
+
+8:11. And when they were come, and were gone up over against the city,
+they stood on the north side of the city, between which and them there
+was a valley in the midst.
+
+8:12. And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush
+between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same city:
+
+Five thousand... These were part of the thirty thousand mentioned above,
+ver. 3.
+
+8:13. But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north
+side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the
+city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley.
+
+8:14. And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the morning,
+and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in battle array,
+toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back.
+
+8:15. But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they were
+afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.
+
+8:16. But they shouting together, and encouraging one another, pursued
+them. And when they were come from the city,
+
+8:17. And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel, that did
+not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they had rushed out,
+
+8:18. The Lord said to Josue: Lift up the shield that is in thy hand,
+towards the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.
+
+8:19. And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city, the ambush,
+that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took it, and
+set it on fire.
+
+8:20. And the men of the city, that pursued after Josue, looking back,
+and seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven, had no more power to
+flee this way or that way: especially as they that had counterfeited
+flight, and were going toward the wilderness, turned back most valiantly
+against them that pursued.
+
+8:21. So Josue, and all Israel, seeing that the city was taken, and that
+the smoke of the city rose up, returned, and slew the men of Hai.
+
+8:22. And they also that had taken and set the city on fire, issuing out
+of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the enemies who were
+surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut off on both sides, not
+one of so great a multitude was saved.
+
+8:23. And they took the king of the city of Hai alive and brought him to
+Josue.
+
+8:24. So all being slain that had pursued after Israel, in his flight to
+the wilderness, and falling by the sword in the same place, the children
+of Israel returned and laid waste the city.
+
+8:25. And the number of them that fell that day, both of men and women,
+was twelve thousand persons, all of the city of Hai.
+
+8:26. But Josue drew not back his hand, which he had stretched out on
+high, holding the shield, till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain.
+
+8:27. And the children of Israel divided among them, the cattle and the
+prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded Josue.
+
+8:28. And he burnt the city, and made it a heap forever:
+
+8:29. And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and
+the going down of the sun. Then Josue commanded, and they took down his
+carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city,
+heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this
+present day.
+
+8:30. Then Josue built an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount
+Hebal,
+
+8:31. As Moses, the servant of the Lord, had commanded the children of
+Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of Moses: an altar of
+unhewn stones, which iron had not touched: and he offered upon it
+holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of peace offerings.
+
+8:32. And he wrote upon stones, the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses,
+which he had ordered before the children of Israel.
+
+8:33. And all the people, and the ancients, and the princes, and judges,
+stood on both sides of the ark, before the priests that carried the ark
+of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger and he that was born
+among them, half of them by Mount Garizim, and half by Mount Hebal, as
+Moses the servant of the Lord, had commanded. And first he blessed the
+people of Israel.
+
+8:34. After this, he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing,
+and all things that were written in the book of the law.
+
+8:35. He left out nothing of those things which Moses had commanded, but
+he repeated all before all the people of Israel, with the women and
+children, and strangers, that dwelt among them.
+
+Josue Chapter 9
+
+Josue is deceived by the Gabaonites: who being detected are condemned to
+be perpetual servants.
+
+9:1. Now when these things were heard of, all the kings beyond the
+Jordan, that dwelt in the mountains, and in the plains, in the places
+near the sea, and on the coasts of the great sea, they also that dwell
+by Libanus, the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite, the
+Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite,
+
+9:2. Gathered themselves together, to fight against Josue and Israel
+with one mind, and one resolution.
+
+9:3. But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all that Josue had done to
+Jericho and Hai:
+
+9:4. Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying old sacks
+upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up again,
+
+9:5. And very old shoes, which for a show of age were clouted with
+patches, and old garments upon them: the loaves also, which they carried
+for provisions by the way, were hard, and broken into  pieces:
+
+9:6. And they went to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and
+said to him, and to all Israel with him: We are come from a far country,
+desiring to make peace with you. And the children of Israel answered
+them, and said:
+
+9:7. Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can
+make no league with you.
+
+9:8. But they said to Josue: We are thy servants. Josue said to them:
+Who are you? and whence came you?
+
+9:9. They answered: From a very far country thy servants are come in the
+name of the Lord thy God. For we have heard the fame of his power, all
+the things that he did in Egypt.
+
+9:10. And to the two kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the
+Jordan, Sehon, king of Hesebon, and Og, king of Basan, that was in
+Astaroth:
+
+9:11. And our ancients, and all the inhabitants of our country, said to
+us: Take with you victuals for a long way, and go meet them, and say: We
+are your servants, make ye a league with us.
+
+9:12. Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we set out from our houses
+to come to you, now they are become dry, and broken in pieces by being
+exceeding old.
+
+9:13. These bottles of wine when we filled them were new, now they are
+rent and burst. These garments we have on, and the shoes we have on our
+feet, by reason of the very long journey, are worn out, and almost
+consumed.
+
+9:14. They took therefore of their victuals, and consulted not the mouth
+of the Lord.
+
+9:15. And Josue made peace with them, and entering into a league,
+promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the
+multitude swore to them.
+
+9:16. Now three days after the league was made, they heard that they
+dwelt nigh, and they should be among them.
+
+9:17. And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their
+cities on the third day, the names of which are, Gabaon, and Caphira,
+and Beroth, and Cariathiarim.
+
+9:18. And they slew them not, because the princes of the multitude had
+sworn in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel. Then all the common
+people murmured against the princes.
+
+9:19. And they answered them: We have sworn to them in the name of the
+Lord, the God of Israel, and therefore we may not touch them.
+
+9:20. But this we will do to them: Let their lives be saved, lest the
+wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should be forsworn:
+
+9:21. But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing
+wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,
+
+9;22. Josue called the Gabaonites, and said to them: Why would you
+impose upon us, saying: We dwell very far off from you, whereas you are
+in the midst of us?
+
+9:23. Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall always
+be hewers of wood, and carriers of water, into the house of my God.
+
+9:24. They answered: It was told us, thy servants, that the Lord thy God
+had promised his servant Moses, to give you all the land, and to destroy
+all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and
+provided for our lives, compelled by the dread we had of you, and we
+took this counsel.
+
+9:25. And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth good and
+right unto thee.
+
+9:26. So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of
+the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.
+
+9:27. And he gave orders in that day, that they should be in the service
+of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing wood, and
+carrying water, until this present time, in the place which the Lord
+hath chosen.
+
+Josue Chapter 10
+
+Five kings war against Gabaon. Josue defeateth them: many are slain with
+hailstones. At the prayer of Josue the sun and moon stand still the
+space of one day. The five kings are hanged. Divers cities are taken.
+
+10:1. When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, to
+wit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had done
+to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and its king) and that
+the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their confederates,
+
+10:2. He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one of
+the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its fighting
+men were most valiant.
+
+10:3. Therefore Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, sent to Oham, king of
+Hebron, and to Pharam, king of Jerimoth, and to Japhia, king of Lachis,
+and to Dabir, king of Eglon, saying:
+
+10:4. Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it
+hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel.
+
+10:5. So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together, went
+up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the
+king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies, and camped
+about Gabaon, laying siege to it.
+
+10:6. But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon, which was besieged,
+sent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him:
+Withdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come up quickly, and
+save us, and bring us succour: for all the kings of the Amorrhites, who
+dwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us.
+
+10:7. And Josue went up from Galgal, and all the army of the warriors
+with him, most valiant men.
+
+10:8. But the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for I have delivered
+them into thy hands: none of them shall be able to stand against thee.
+
+10:9. So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them
+suddenly.
+
+10:10. And the Lord troubled them, at the sight of Israel: and he slew
+them with a great slaughter, in Gabaon, and pursued them by the way of
+the ascent to Bethoron, and cut them off all the way to Azeca and
+Maceda.
+
+10:11. And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel, and were
+in the descent of Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great stones
+from heaven, as far as Azeca: and many more were killed with the
+hailstones, than were slain by the swords of the children of Israel,
+
+10:12. Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the day that he delivered the
+Amorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and he said before
+them: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, toward the
+valley of Ajalon.
+
+10:13. And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people revenged
+themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the
+just? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to
+go down the space of one day.
+
+The book of the just... In Hebrew Jasher: an ancient book long since
+lost.
+
+10:14. There was not before, nor after, so long a day, the Lord obeying
+the voice of a man, and fighting for Israel.
+
+10:15. And Josue returned, with all Israel, into the camp of Galgal.
+
+10:16. For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave of
+the city of Maceda.
+
+10:17. And it was told Josue, that the five kings were found hid in a
+cave of the city of Maceda.
+
+10:18. And he commanded them that were with him, saying: Roll great
+stones to the mouth of the cave, and set careful men to keep them shut
+up:
+
+10:19. And stay you not, but pursue after the enemies, and kill all the
+hindermost of them as they flee, and do not suffer them whom the Lord
+God hath delivered into your hands, to shelter themselves in their
+cities.
+
+10:20. So the enemies being slain with a great slaughter, and almost
+utterly consumed, they that were able to escape from Israel, entered
+into fenced cities.
+
+10:21. And all the army returned to Josue, in Maceda, where the camp
+then was, in good health, and without the loss of any one: and no man
+durst move his tongue against the children of Israel.
+
+10:22. And Josue gave orders, saying: Open the mouth of the cave, and
+bring forth to me the five kings that lie hid therein.
+
+10:23. And the ministers did as they were commanded: and they brought
+out to him the five kings out of the cave: the king of Jerusalem, the
+king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of
+Eglon.
+
+10:24. And when they were brought out to him, he called all the men of
+Israel, and said to the chiefs of the army that were with him: Go, and
+set your feet on the necks of these kings. And when they had gone, and
+put their feet upon the necks of them lying under them,
+
+10:25. He said again to them: Fear not, neither be ye dismayed, take
+courage, and be strong: for so will the Lord do to all your enemies,
+against whom you fight.
+
+10:26. And Josue struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon five
+gibbets; and they hung until the evening.
+
+10:27. And when the sun was down, he commanded the soldiers to take them
+down from the gibbets. And after they were taken down, they cast them
+into the cave, where they had lain hid, and put great stones at the
+mouth thereof, which remain until this day.
+
+10:28. The same day Josue took Maceda, and destroyed it with the edge of
+the sword, and killed the king and all the inhabitants thereof: he left
+not in it the least remains. And he did to the king of Maceda, as he had
+done to the king of Jericho.
+
+10:29. And he passed from Maceda with all Israel to Lebna, and fought
+against it:
+
+10:30. And the Lord delivered it with the king thereof into the hands of
+Israel: and they destroyed the city with the edge of the sword, and all
+the inhabitants thereof. They left not in it any remains. And they did
+to the king of Lebna, as they had done to the king of Jericho.
+
+10:31. From Lebna he passed unto Lachis, with all Israel: and investing
+it with his army, besieged it.
+
+10:32. And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel, and he
+took it the following day, and put it to the sword, and every soul that
+was in it, as he had done to Lebna.
+
+10:33. At that time Horam, king of Gazer, came up to succour Lachis: and
+Josue slew him with all his people so as to leave none alive.
+
+10:34. And he passed from Lachis to Eglon, and surrounded it,
+
+10:35. And took it the same day: and put to the sword all the souls that
+were in it, according to all that he had done to Lachis.
+
+10:36. He went up also with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron, and fought
+against it:
+
+10:37. Took it, and destroyed it with the edge of the sword: the king
+also thereof, and all the towns of that country, and all the souls that
+dwelt in it: he left not therein any remains: as he had done to Eglon,
+so did he also to Hebron, putting to the sword all that he found in it.
+
+The king... Viz., the new king, who succeeded him that was slain, ver.
+26.
+
+10:38. Returning from thence to Dabir,
+
+10:39. He took it, and destroyed it: the king also thereof, and all the
+towns round about, he destroyed with the edge of the sword: he left not
+in it any remains: as he had done to Hebron and Lebna, and to their
+kings, so did he to Dabir, and to the king thereof.
+
+10:40. So Josue conquered all the country of the hills, and of the
+south, and of the plain, and of Asedoth, with their kings: he left not
+any remains therein, but slew all that breathed, as the Lord, the God of
+Israel, had commanded him.
+
+Any remains therein, but slew, etc... God ordered these people to be
+utterly destroyed, in punishment of their manifold abomination; and that
+they might not draw the Israelites into the like sins.
+
+10:41. From Cadesbarne even to Gaza. All the land of Gosen even to
+Gabaon,
+
+10:42. And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted at one
+onset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for him.
+
+10:43. And he returned with all Israel to the place of the camp in
+Galgal.
+
+Josue Chapter 11
+
+The kings of the north are overthrown: the whole country is taken.
+
+11:1. And when Jabin king of Asor had heard these things, he sent to
+Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Semeron, and to the king of
+Achsaph:
+
+11:2. And to the kings of the north, that dwelt in the mountains and in
+the plains over against the south side of Ceneroth, and in the levels
+and the countries of Dor by the sea side:
+
+11:3. To the Chanaanites also on the east and on the west, and the
+Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Jebusite in the
+mountains: to the Hevite also who dwelt at the foot of Hermon in the
+land of Maspha.
+
+11:4. And they all came out with their troops, a people exceeding
+numerous as the sand that is on the sea shore, their horses also and
+chariots a very great multitude,
+
+11:5. And all these kings assembled together at the waters of Merom, to
+fight against Israel.
+
+11:6. And the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for to morrow at this
+same hour I will deliver all these to be slain in the sight of Israel:
+thou shalt hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn their chariots
+with fire.
+
+Hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire, etc... God so
+ordained, that his people might not trust in chariots and horses, but in
+him.
+
+11:7. And Josue came, and all the army with him, against them to the
+waters of Merom on a sudden, and fell upon them.
+
+11:8. And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. And they
+defeated them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon and the waters
+of Maserophot, and the field of Masphe, which is on the east thereof. He
+slew them all, so as to leave no remains of them:
+
+11:9. And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed their
+horses and burned their chariots.
+
+11:10. And presently turning back he took Asor: and slew the king
+thereof with the sword. Now Asor of old was the head of all these
+kingdoms.
+
+11:11. And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left not in it
+any remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the city itself with
+fire.
+
+11:12. And he took and put to the sword and destroyed all the cities
+round about, and their kings, as Moses the servant of God had commanded
+him.
+
+11:13. Except the cities that were on hills and high places, the rest
+Israel burned: only Asor that was very strong he consumed with fire.
+
+11:14. And the children of Israel divided among themselves all the spoil
+of these cities and the cattle, killing all the men.
+
+11:15. As the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command
+Josue, and he accomplished all: he left not one thing undone of all the
+commandments which the Lord had commanded Moses.
+
+11:16. So Josue took all the country of the hills, and of the south, and
+the land of Gosen, and the plains and the west country, and the mountain
+of Israel, and the plains thereof:
+
+11:17. And part of the mountain that goeth up to Seir as far as Baalgad,
+by the plain of Libanus under mount Hermon: all their kings he took,
+smote and slew.
+
+11:18. Josue made war a long time against these kings.
+
+A long time... Seven years, as appears from chap. 14.10.
+
+11:19. There was not a city that delivered itself to the children of
+Israel, except the Hevite, who dwelt in Gabaon: for he took all by
+fight.
+
+11:20. For it was the sentence of the Lord, that their hearts should be
+hardened, and they should fight against Israel, and fall, and should not
+deserve any clemency, and should be destroyed as the Lord had commanded
+Moses.
+
+Hardened... This hardening of their hearts, was their having no thought
+of yielding or submitting: which was a sentence or judgment of God upon
+them in punishment of their enormous crimes.
+
+11:21. At that time Josue came and cut off the Enancims from the
+mountains, from Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the mountain
+of Juda and Israel, and destroyed their cities.
+
+11:22. He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the land of the
+children of Israel: except the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in
+which alone they were left.
+
+11:23. So Josue took all the land, as the Lord spoke to Moses, and
+delivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according to their
+divisions and tribes. And the land rested from wars.
+
+Josue Chapter 12
+
+A list of the kings slain by Moses and Josue,
+
+12:1. These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and
+possessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun,
+from the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that
+looketh towards the wilderness.
+
+12:2. Sehon king of the Amorrhites, who dwelt in Hesebon, and had
+dominion from Aroer, which is seated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon,
+and of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far as the
+torrent Jaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon.
+
+12:3. And from the wilderness, to the sea of Ceneroth towards the east,
+and to the sea of the wilderness, which is the most salt sea, on the
+east side by the way that leadeth to Bethsimoth: and on the south side
+that lieth under Asedoth, Phasga.
+
+12:4. The border of Og the king of Basan, of the remnant of the Raphaims
+who dwelt in Astaroth, and in Edrai, and had dominion in mount Hermon,
+and in Salecha, and in all Basan, unto the borders
+
+12:5. Of Gessuri and Machati, and of half Galaad: the borders of Sehon
+the king of Hesebon.
+
+12:6. Moses the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel slew
+them, and Moses delivered their land in possession to the Rubenites, and
+Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses.
+
+12:7. These are the kings of the land, whom Josue and the children of
+Israel slew beyond the Jordan on the west side from Baalgad in the field
+of Libanus, unto the mount, part of which goeth up into Seir: and Josue
+delivered it in possession to the tribes of Israel, to every one their
+divisions,
+
+12:8. As well in the mountains as in the plains and the champaign
+countries. In Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in the south was the
+Hethite and the Amorrhite, the Chanaanite and the Pherezite, the Hevite
+and the Jebusite.
+
+12:9. The king of Jericho one: the king of Hai, which is on the side of
+Bethel, one:
+
+12:10. The king of Jerusalem one, the king of Hebron one,
+
+12:11. The king of Jerimoth one, thee king of Lachis one,
+
+12:12. The king of Eglon one, the king of Gazer one,
+
+12:13. The king of Dabir one, the king of Gader one,
+
+12:14. The king of Herma one, the king of Hered one,
+
+12:15. The king of Lebna one, the king of Odullam one,
+
+12:16. The king of Maceda one, the king of Bethel one,
+
+12:17. The king of Taphua one, the king of Opher one,
+
+12:18. The king of Aphec one, the king of Saron one,
+
+12:19. The king of Madon one, the king of Asor one,
+
+12:20. The king of Semeron one, the king of Achsaph one,
+
+12:21. The king of Thenac one, the king of Mageddo one,
+
+12:22. Thee king of Cades one, the king of Jachanan of Carmel one,
+
+12:23. The king of Dor, and of the province of Dor one, the king of the
+nations of Galgal one,
+
+12:24. The king of Thersa one: all the kings thirty and one.
+
+Josue Chapter 13
+
+God commandeth Josue to divide the land: the possessions of Ruben, Gad,
+and half the tribe of Manasses, beyond the Jordan.
+
+13:1. Josue was old, and far advanced in years, and the Lord said to
+him: Thou art grown old, and advanced in age, and there is a very large
+country left, which is not yet divided by lot:
+
+Josue was old, and far advanced in years... He was then about one
+hundred and one years old.-And their is a very large country left, which
+is not yet divided by lot... Not yet possessed by the children of
+Israel.
+
+13:2. To wit, all Galilee, Philistia, and all Gessuri.
+
+13:3. From the troubled river, that watereth Egypt, unto the border of
+Accaron northward: the land of Chanaan, which is divided among the lords
+of the Philistines, the Gazites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites, the
+Gethites, and the Accronites.
+
+13:4. And on the south side are the Hevites, all the land of Chanaan,
+and Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the
+Amorrhite,
+
+13:5. And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east
+from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.
+
+13:6. Of all that dwell in the mountains from Libanus, to the waters of
+Maserephoth, and all the Sidonians. I am he that will cut them off from
+before the face of the children of Israel. So let their land come in as
+a part of the inheritance of Israel, as I have commanded thee.
+
+13:7. And now divide the land in possession to the nine tribes, and to
+the half tribe of Manasses,
+
+13:8. With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the
+servant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the
+east side.
+
+With whom... That is, with the other half of that same tribe.
+
+13:9. From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in
+the midst of the valley and all the plains of Medaba, as far as Dibon:
+
+13:10. And all the cities of Sehon, king of the Amorrhites, who reigned
+in Hesebon, unto the borders of the children of Ammon.
+
+13:11. And Galaad, and the borders of Gessuri and Machati, and all mount
+Hermon, and all Basan as far as Salecha,
+
+13:12. All the kingdom of Og in Basan, who reigned in Astaroth and
+Edrai, he was of the remains of the Raphaims: and Moses overthrew and
+destroyed them.
+
+13:13. And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati
+and they have dwelt in the midst of Israel, until this present day.
+
+13:14. But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the
+sacrifices and victims of thee Lord God of Israel, are his inheritance,
+as he spoke to him.
+
+13:15. And Moses gave a possession to the children of Ruben according to
+their kindreds.
+
+13:16. And their border was from Aroer, which is on the bank of the
+torrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley of the same torrent: all
+the plain, that leadeth to Medaba,
+
+13:17. And Hesebon, and all their villages, which are in the plains.
+Dibon also, and Bamothbaal, and the town of Baalmaon,
+
+13:18. And Jassa, and Cidimoth, and Mephaath,
+
+13:19. And Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of the
+valley.
+
+13:20. Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and Bethiesimoth,
+
+13:21. And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdoms of Sehon
+king of the Amorrhites, that reigned in Hesebon, whom Moses slew with
+the princes of Madian: Hevi, and Recem, and Sur and Hur, and Rebe, dukes
+of Sehon inhabitants of the land.
+
+The princes of Madian... It appears from hence that these were subjects
+of king Sehon: they are said to have been slain with him, that is, about
+the same time, but not in the same battle.
+
+13:22. Balaam also the son of Beor the soothsayer, the children of
+Israel slew with the sword among the rest that were slain.
+
+13:23. And the river Jordan was the border of the children of Ruben.
+This is the possession of the Rubenites, by their kindreds, of cities
+and villages.
+
+13:24. And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad and to his children by their
+kindreds a possession, of which this is the division.
+
+13:25. The border of Jaser, and all the cities of Galaad, and half the
+land of the children of Ammon: as far as Aroer which is over against
+Rabba:
+
+13:26. And from Hesebon unto Ramoth, Masphe and Betonim: and from Manaim
+unto the borders of Dabir.
+
+13:27. And in the valley Betharan and Bethnemra, and Socoth, and Saphon
+the other part of the kingdom of Sehon king of Hesebon: the limit of
+this also is the Jordan, as far as the uttermost part of the sea of
+Cenereth beyond the Jordan on the east side,
+
+13:28. This is the possession of the children of Gad by their families,
+their cities, and villages.
+
+13:29. He gave also to the half tribe of Manasses and his children
+possession according to their kindreds,
+
+13:30. The beginning whereof is this: from Manaim all Basan, and all the
+kingdoms of Og king of Basan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in
+Basan, threescore towns.
+
+13:31. And half Galaad, and Astaroth, and Edrai, cities of the kingdom
+of Og in Basan: to the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, to one
+half of the children of Machir according to their kindreds.
+
+13:32. This possession Moses divided in the plains of Moab, beyond the
+Jordan, over against Jericho on the east side,
+
+13:33. But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: because the Lord
+the God of Israel himself is their possession, as he spoke to them.
+
+Josue Chapter 14
+
+Caleb's petition; Hebron is given to him and to his seed.
+
+14:1. This is what the children of Israel possessed in the land of
+Chanaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the
+princes of the families by the tribes of Israel gave to them.
+
+14:2. Dividing all by lot, as the Lord had commanded the hand of Moses,
+to the nine tribes, and the half tribe.
+
+14:3. For to two tribes and a half Moses had given possession beyond the
+Jordan: besides the Levites, who received no land among their brethren:
+
+14:4. But in their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into
+two tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive
+other portion of land, but cities to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed
+their beasts and flocks.
+
+Hebron belonged, etc... All the country thereabouts, depending on
+Hebron, was given to Caleb; but the city itself with the suburbs, was
+one of those that were given to the priests to dwell in.
+
+14:5. As the Lord had commanded Moses so did the children of Israel, and
+they divided the land.
+
+14:6. Then the children of Juda came to Josue in Galgal, and Caleb the
+son of Jephone the Cenezite spoke to him: Thou knowest what the Lord
+spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Cadesbarne.
+
+14:7. I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me
+from Cadesbarne, to view the land, and I brought him word again as to me
+seemed true,
+
+14:8. But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged the heart
+of the people: and I nevertheless followed the Lord my God.
+
+14:9. And Moses swore in that day, saying: The land which thy foot hath
+trodden upon shall be thy possession, and thy children for ever, because
+thou hast followed the Lord my God.
+
+14:10. The Lord therefore hath granted me life, as he promised until
+this present day, It is forty and five years since the Lord spoke this
+word to Moses, when Israel journeyed through the wilderness: this day I
+am eighty-five years old,
+
+14:11. As strong as I was at that time when I was sent to view the land:
+the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as well to
+fight as to march.
+
+14:12. Give me therefore this mountain, which the Lord promised, in thy
+hearing also, wherein are the Enacims, and cities great and strong: if
+so be the Lord will be with me, and I shall be able to destroy them, as
+he promised me.
+
+14:13. And Josue blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession.
+
+14:14. And from that time Hebron belonged to Caleb the son of Jephone
+the Cenezite, until this present day: because he followed the Lord the
+God of Israel.
+
+14:15. The name of Hebron before was called Cariath-Arbe: Adam the
+greatest among the Enacims was laid there and the land rested from wars.
+
+Josue Chapter 15
+
+The borders of the lot of Juda. Caleb's portion and conquest. The cities
+of Juda.
+
+15:1. Now the lot of the children of Juda by their kindreds was this:
+From the frontier of Edom, to the desert of Sin southward, and to the
+uttermost part of the south coast.
+
+15:2. Its beginning was from the top of the most salt sea, and from the
+bay thereof, that looketh to the south.
+
+15:3. And it goeth out towards the ascent of the Scorpion, and passeth
+on to Sina: and ascendeth into Cadesbarne, and reacheth into Esron,
+going up to Addar, and compassing Carcaa.
+
+15:4. And from thence passing along into Asemona, and reaching the
+torrent of Egypt: and the bounds thereof shall be the great sea, this
+shall be the limit of the south coast.
+
+15:5. But on the east side the beginning shall be the most salt sea even
+to the end of the Jordan: and towards the north from the bay of the sea
+unto the same river Jordan.
+
+15:6. And the border goeth up into Beth-Hagla, and passeth by the north
+into Beth-Araba: going up to the stone of Boen the son of Ruben.
+
+15:7. And reaching as far as the borders of Debara from the valley of
+Achor, and so northward looking towards Galgal, which is opposite to the
+ascent of Adommin, on the south side of the torrent, and the border
+passeth the waters that are called the fountain of the sun: and the
+goings out thereof shall be at the fountain Rogel.
+
+15:8. And it goeth up by the valley of the son of Ennom on the side of
+the Jebusite towards the south, the same is Jerusalem: and thence
+ascending to the top of the mountain, which is over against Geennom to
+the west in the end of the valley of Raphaim, northward.
+
+15:9. And it passeth on from the top of the mountain to the fountain of
+the water of Nephtoa: and reacheth to the towns of mount Ephron: and it
+bendeth towards Baala, which is Cariathiarim, that is to say, the city
+of the woods.
+
+15:10. And it compasseth from Baala westward unto mount Seir: and
+passeth by the side of mount Jarim to the north into Cheslon: and goeth
+down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna.
+
+15:11. And reacheth northward to a part of Accaron at the side: and
+bendeth to Sechrona, and passeth mount Baala: and cometh into Jebneel,
+and is bounded westward with the great sea.
+
+15:12. These are the borders round about of the children of Juda in
+their kindreds.
+
+15:13. But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst of
+the children of Juda, as the Lord had commanded him: Cariath-Arbe the
+father of Enac, which is Hebron.
+
+15:14. And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and
+Ahiman, and Tholmai of the race of Enac.
+
+15:15. And going up from thence he came to the inhabitants of Dabir,
+which before was called Cariath-Sepher, that is to say, the city of
+letters.
+
+15:16. And Caleb said: He that shall smite Cariath-Sepher, and take it,
+I will give him Axa my daughter to wife.
+
+15:17. And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb, took
+it: and he gave him Axa his daughter to wife.
+
+15:18. And as they were going together, she was moved by her husband to
+ask a field of her father, and she sighed as she sat on her ass. And
+Caleb said to her: What aileth thee?
+
+15:19. But she answered: Give me a blessing: thou hast given me a
+southern and dry land, give me also a land that Is watered.  And Caleb
+gave her the upper and the nether watery ground.
+
+15:20. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Juda by
+their kindreds.
+
+15:21. And the cities from the uttermost parts of the children of Juda
+by the borders of Edom to the south, were Cabseel and Eder and Jagur,
+
+15:22. And Cina and Dimona and Adada,
+
+15:23. And Cades and Asor and Jethnam,
+
+15:24. Ziph and Telem and Baloth,
+
+15:25. New Asor and Carioth, Hesron, which is Asor.
+
+15:26. Amam, Sama and Molada,
+
+15:27. And Asergadda and Hassemon and Bethphelet,
+
+15:28. And Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia,
+
+15:29. And Baala and Jim and Esem,
+
+15:30. And Eltholad and Cesil and Harma,
+
+15:31. And Siceleg and Medemena and Sensenna,
+
+15:32. Lebaoth and Selim and Aen and Remmon: all the cities twenty-nine,
+and their villages.
+
+15:33. But in the plains: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,
+
+15:34. And Zanoe and Engannim and Taphua and Enaim,
+
+15:35. And Jerimoth and Adullam, Socho and Azeca,
+
+15:36. And Saraim and Adithaim and Gedera and Gederothaim: fourteen
+cities, and their villages.
+
+15:37. Sanan and Hadassa and Magdalgad,
+
+15:38. Delean and Masepha and Jecthel,
+
+15:39. Lachis and Bascath and Eglon,
+
+15:40. Chebbon and Leheman and Cethlis,
+
+15:41. And Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama and Maceda: sixteen cities,
+and their villages.
+
+15:42. Labana and Ether and Asan,
+
+15:43. Jephtha and Esna and Nesib,
+
+15:44. And Ceila and Achzib and Maresa: nine cities, and their villages.
+
+15:45. Accaron with the towns and villages thereof.
+
+15:46. From Accaron even to the sea: all places that lie towards Azotus
+and the villages thereof.
+
+15:47. Azotus with its towns and villages. Gaza with its towns and
+villages, even to the torrent of Egypt, and the great sea that is the
+border thereof.
+
+15:48. And in the mountain Samir and Jether and Socoth,
+
+15:49. And Danna and Cariath-senna, this is Dabir:
+
+15:50. Anab and Istemo and Anim,
+
+15:51. Gosen and Olon and Gilo: eleven cities and their villages.
+
+15:52. Arab and Ruma and Esaan,
+
+15:53. And Janum and Beththaphua and Apheca,
+
+15:54. Athmatha and Cariath-Arbe, this is Hebron and Sior: nine cities
+and their villages.
+
+15:55. Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Jota,
+
+15:56. Jezrael and Jucadam and Zanoe,
+
+15:57. Accain, Gabaa and Thamna: ten cities and their villages.
+
+15:58. Halhul, and Bessur, and Gedor,
+
+15:59. Mareth, and Bethanoth, and Eltecon: six cities and their
+villages.
+
+15:60. Cariathbaal, the same is Cariathiarim the city of woods, and
+Arebba: two cities and their villages.
+
+15:61. In the desert Betharaba, Meddin and Sachacha,
+
+15:62. And Nebsan, and the city of salt, and Engaddi: six cities and
+their villages.
+
+15:63. But the children of Juda could not destroy the Jebusite that
+dwelt in Jerusalem: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Juda in
+Jerusalem until this present day.
+
+Josue Chapter 16
+
+The lot of the sons of Joseph. The borders of the tribe of Ephraim.
+
+16:1. And the lot of the sons of Joseph fell from the Jordan over
+against Jericho and the waters thereof, on the east: the wilderness
+which goeth up from Jericho to the mountain of Bethel:
+
+16:2. And goeth out from Bethel to Luza: and passeth the border of
+Archi, to Ataroth,
+
+16:3. And goeth down westward, by the border of Jephleti, unto the
+borders of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gazer: and the countries of it
+are ended by the great sea:
+
+16:4. And Manasses and Ephraim the children of Joseph possessed it.
+
+16:5. And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their
+kindreds: and their possession towards the east was Ataroth-addar unto
+Beth-horon the upper.
+
+16:6. And the confines go out unto the sea: but Machmethath looketh to
+the north, and it goeth round the borders eastward into Thanath-selo:
+and passeth along on the east side to Janoe.
+
+Looketh to the north, etc... The meaning is, that the border went
+towards the north, by Machmethath; and then turned eastward to Thanath-
+selo.
+
+16:7. And it goeth down from Janoe into Ataroth and Naaratha: and it
+cometh to Jericho, and goeth out to the Jordan.
+
+16:8. From Taphua it passeth on towards the sea into the valley of
+reeds, and the goings out thereof are at the most salt sea.  This is the
+possession of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.
+
+16:9. And there were cities with their villages separated for the
+children of Ephraim in the midst of the possession of the children of
+Manasses.
+
+16:10. And the children of Ephraim slew not the Chanaanite, who dwelt in
+Gazer: and the Chanaanite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day,
+paying tribute.
+
+Josue Chapter 17
+
+The lot of the half tribe of Manasses.
+
+17:1. And this lot fell to the tribe of Manasses for he is the firstborn
+of Joseph to Machir the firstborn of Manasses the father of Galaad, who
+was a warlike man, and had for possession Galaad and Basan.
+
+17:2. And to the rest of the children of Manasses according to their
+families: to the children of Abiezer, and to the children of Helec, and
+to the children of Esriel, and to the children of Sechem, and to the
+children of Hepher, and to the children of Semida: these are the male
+children of Manasses the son of Joseph, by their kindreds.
+
+17:3. But Salphaad the son of Hepher the son of Galaad the son of Machir
+the son of Manasses had no sons, but only daughters: whose names are
+these, Maala and Noa and Hegla and Melcha and Thersa.
+
+17:4. And they came in the presence of Eleazar the priest and of Josue
+the son of Nun, and of the princes, saying: The Lord commanded by the
+hand of Moses, that a possession should be given us in the midst of our
+brethren. And he gave them according to the commandment of the Lord a
+possession amongst the brethren of their father.
+
+17:5. And there fell ten portions to Manasses, beside the land of Galaad
+and Basan beyond the Jordan.
+
+17:6. For the daughters of Manasses possessed inheritance in the midst
+of his sons. And the land of Galaad fell to the lot of the rest of the
+children of Manasses.
+
+17:7. And the border of Manasses was from Aser, Machmethath which
+looketh towards Sichem: and it goeth out on the right hand by the
+inhabitants of the fountain of Taphua.
+
+17:8. For the lot of Manasses took in the land of Taphua, which is on
+the borders of Manasses, and belongs to the children of Ephraim.
+
+17:9. And the border goeth down to the valley of the reeds, to the south
+of the torrent of the cities of Ephraim, which are in the midst of the
+cities of Manasses: the border of Manasses is on the north side of the
+torrent, and the outgoings of it are at the sea:
+
+17:10. So that the possession of Ephraim is on the south, and on the
+north that of Manasses, and the sea is the border of both, and they are
+joined together in the tribe of Aser on the north, and in the tribe of
+Issachar on the east.
+
+17:11. And the inheritance of Manasses in Issachar and in Aser, was
+Bethsan and its villages, and Jeblaam with its villages, and the
+inhabitants of Dor, with the towns thereof: the inhabitants also of
+Endor with the villages thereof: and in like manner the inhabitants of
+Thenac with the villages thereof: and the inhabitants of Mageddo with
+their villages, and the third part of the city of Nopheth.
+
+17:12. Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow these cities,
+but the Chanaanite began to dwell in his land.
+
+17:13. But after that the children of Israel were grown strong, they
+subdued the Chanaanites, and made them their tributaries, and they did
+not kill them.
+
+17:14. And the children of Joseph spoke to Josue, and said: Why hast
+thou given me but one lot and one portion to possess, whereas I am of so
+great a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed me?
+
+17:15. And Josue said to them: If thou be a great people, go up into the
+woodland, and cut down room for thyself in the land of the Pherezite and
+the Raphaims: because the possession of mount Ephraim is too narrow for
+thee.
+
+17:16. And the children of Joseph answered him: We cannot go up to the
+mountains, for the Chanaanites that dwell in the low lands, wherein are
+situate Bethsan with its towns, and Jezrael in the midst of the valley,
+have chariots of iron.
+
+17:17. And Josue said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasses:
+Thou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one
+lot only:
+
+17:18. But thou shalt pass to the mountain, and shalt cut down the wood,
+and make thyself room to dwell in: and mayst proceed farther, when thou
+hast destroyed the Chanaanites, who as thou sayest have iron chariots,
+and are very strong.
+
+Josue Chapter 18
+
+Surveyors are sent to divide the rest of the land into seven tribes.
+The lot of Benjamin.
+
+18:1. And all the children of Israel assembled together in Silo, and
+there they set up the tabernacle of the testimony, and the land was
+subdued before them.
+
+18:2. But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel, which
+as yet had not received their possessions.
+
+18:3. And Josue said to them: How long are you indolent and slack, and
+go not in to possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers
+hath given you?
+
+18:4. Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they
+may go and compass the land, and mark it out according to the number of
+each multitude: and bring back to me what they have marked out.
+
+18:5. Divide to yourselves the land into seven parts: let Juda be in his
+bounds on the south side, and the house of Joseph on the north.
+
+18:6. The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts;
+and you shall come hither to me, that I may cast lots for you before the
+Lord your God.
+
+The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts... That
+is to say, the rest of the land, which is not already assigned to Juda
+or Joseph.
+
+18:7. For the Levites have no part among you, but the priesthood of the
+Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of
+Manasses have already received their possessions beyond the Jordan
+eastward: which Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
+
+18:8. And when the men were risen up, to go to mark out the land, Josue
+commanded them saying: Go round the land and mark it out, and return to
+me: that I may cast lots for you before the Lord in Silo.
+
+18:9. So they went and surveying it divided it into seven parts, writing
+them down in a book. And they returned to Josue, to the camp in Silo.
+
+18:10. And he cast lots before the Lord in Silo, and divided the land to
+the children of Israel into seven parts.
+
+18:11. And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their
+families, to possess the land between the children of Juda, and the
+children of Joseph.
+
+18:12. And their border northward was from the Jordan: going along by
+the side of Jericho on the north side, and thence going up westward to
+the mountains, and reaching to the wilderness of Bethaven,
+
+18:13. And passing along southward by Luza, the same is Bethel, and it
+goeth down into Ataroth-addar to the mountain, that is on the south of
+the nether Beth-horon.
+
+18:14. And it bendeth thence going round towards the sea, south of the
+mountain that looketh towards Beth-horon to the southwest: and the
+outgoings thereof are into Cariathbaal, which is called also
+Cariathiarim, a city of the children of Juda This is their coast towards
+the sea, westward.
+
+18:15. But on the south side the border goeth out from part of
+Cariathiarim towards the sea, and cometh to the fountain of the waters
+of Nephtoa.
+
+18:16. And it goeth down to that part of the mountain that looketh on
+the valley of the children of Ennom: and is over against the north
+quarter in the furthermost part of the valley of Raphaim, and it goeth
+down into Geennom (that is the valley of Ennom) by the side of the
+Jebusite to the south: and cometh to the fountain of Rogel,
+
+18:17. Passing thence to the north, and going out to Ensemes, that is to
+say, the fountain of the sun:
+
+18:18. And It passeth along to the hills that are over against the
+ascent of Adommim: and it goeth down to Abenboen, that is, the stone of
+Boen the son of Ruben: and it passeth on the north side to the champaign
+countries; and goeth down Into the plain,
+
+18:19. And it passeth by Bethhagla northward: and the outgoings thereof
+are towards the north of the most salt sea at the south end of the
+Jordan.
+
+18:20. Which is the border of it on the east side. This is the
+possession of the children of Benjamin by their borders round about, and
+their families.
+
+18:21. And their cities were, Jericho and Bethhagla and Vale-Casis,
+
+18:22. Betharaba and Samaraim and Bethel,
+
+18:23. And Avim and Aphara and Ophera,
+
+18:24. The town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, and their
+villages.
+
+18:25. Gabam and Rama and Beroth,
+
+18:26. And Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,
+
+18:27. And Recem, Jarephel, and Tharela,
+
+18:28. And Sela, Eleph and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath and
+Cariath: fourteen cities, and their villages. This is the possession of
+the children of Benjamin by their families.
+
+Josue Chapter 19
+
+The lots of the tribes of Simeon, Zabulon, Issachar, Aser, Nephtali and
+Dan. A city is given to Josue.
+
+19:1. And the second lot came forth for the children of Simeon by their
+kindreds: and their inheritance was
+
+19:2. In the midst of the possession of the children of Juda: Bersabee
+and Sabee and Molada,
+
+19:3. And Hasersual, Bala and Asem,
+
+19:4. And Eltholad, Bethul and Harma,
+
+19:5. And Siceleg and Bethmarchaboth and Hasersusa,
+
+19:6. And Bethlebaoth and Sarohen: thirteen cities, and their villages.
+
+19:7. And Remmon and Athor and Asan: four cities, and their villages.
+
+19:8. And all the villages round about these cities to Baalath Beer
+Ramath to the south quarter. This is the inheritance of the children of
+Simeon according to their kindreds,
+
+19:9. In the possession and lot of the children of Juda: because it was
+too great, and therefore the children of Simeon had their possession in
+the midst of their inheritance.
+
+19:10. And the third lot fell to the children of Zabulon by their
+kindreds: and the border of their possession was unto Sarid.
+
+19:11. And It went up from the sea and from Merala, and came to
+Debbaseth: as far as the torrent, which is over against Jeconam.
+
+19:12. And it returneth from Sarid eastward to the borders of
+Ceseleththabor: and it goeth out to Dabereth and ascendeth towards
+Japhie.
+
+19:13. And it passeth along from thence to the east side of Gethhepher
+and Thacasin: and goeth out to Remmon, Amthar and Noa.
+
+19:14. And it turneth about to the north of Hanathon: and the outgoings
+thereof are the valley of Jephtahel,
+
+19:15. And Cateth and Naalol and Semeron and Jedala and Bethlehem:
+twelve cities and their villages.
+
+19:16. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Zabulon
+by their kindreds, the cities and their villages.
+
+19:17. The fourth lot came out to Issachar by their kindreds.
+
+19:18. And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casaloth and Sunem,
+
+19:19. And Hapharaim and Seon and Anaharath,
+
+19:20. And Rabboth and Cesion, Abes,
+
+19:21. And Rameth and Engannim and Enhadda and Bethpheses.
+
+19:22. And the border thereof cometh to Thabor and Sehesima and
+Bethsames: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the Jordan: sixteen
+cities, and their villages.
+
+19:23. This is the possession of the sons of Issachar by their kindreds,
+the cities and their villages.
+
+19:24. And the fifth lot fell to the tribe of the children of Aser by
+their kindreds:
+
+19:25. And their border was Halcath and Chali and Beten and Axaph,
+
+19:26. And Elmelech and Amaad and Messal: and it reacheth to Carmel by
+the sea and Sihor and Labanath,
+
+19:27. And it returneth towards the east to Bethdagon: and passeth along
+to Zabulon and to the valley of Jephthael towards the north to Bethemec
+and Nehiel. And it goeth out to the left side of Cabul,
+
+19:28. And to Abaran and Rohob and Hamon and Cana, as far as the great
+Sidon.
+
+19:29. And it returneth to Horma to the strong city of Tyre, and to
+Hosa: and the outgoings thereof shall be at the sea from the portion of
+Achziba:
+
+19:30. And Amma and Aphec and Rohob: twenty-two cities, and their
+villages.
+
+19:31. This is the possession of the children of Aser by their kindreds,
+and the cities and their villages.
+
+19:32. The sixth lot came out to the sons of Nephtali by their families:
+
+19:33. And the border began from Heleph and Elon to Saananim, and Adami,
+which is Neceb, and Jebnael even to Lecum:
+
+19:34. And the border returneth westward to Azanotthabor, and goeth out
+from thence to Hucuca, and passeth along to Zabulon southward, and to
+Aser westward, and to Juda upon the Jordan towards the rising of the
+sun.
+
+19:35. And the strong cities are Assedim, Ser, and Emath, and Reccath
+and Cenereth,
+
+19:36. And Edema and Arama, Asor,
+
+19:37. And Cedes and Edri, Enhasor,
+
+19:38. And Jeron and Magdalel, Horem, and Bethanath and Bethsames:
+nineteen cities, and their villages.
+
+19:39. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Nephtali
+by their kindreds, the cities and their villages.
+
+19:40. The seventh lot came out to the tribe of the children of Dan by
+their families,
+
+19:41. And the border of their possession was Saraa and Esthaol, and
+Hirsemes, that is, the city of the sun,
+
+19:42. Selebin and Aialon and Jethela,
+
+19:43. Elon and Themna and Acron,
+
+19:44. Elthece, Gebbethon and Balaath,
+
+19:45. And Juda and Bane and Barach and Gethremmon:
+
+19:46. And Mejarcon and Arecon, with the border that looketh towards
+Joppe,
+
+19:47. And is terminated there. And the children of Dan went up and
+fought against Lesem, and took it: and they put it to the sword, and
+possessed it, and dwelt in it, calling the name of it Lesem Dan, by the
+name of Dan their father.
+
+19:48. This is the possession of the tribe of the sons of Dan, by their
+kindreds, the cities and their villages.
+
+19:49. And when he had made an end of dividing the land by lot to each
+one by their tribes, the children of Israel gave a possession to Josue
+the son of Nun in the midst of them,
+
+19:50. According to the commandment of the Lord, the city which he asked
+for, Thamnath Saraa, in mount Ephraim: and he built up the city, and
+dwelt in it.
+
+19:51. These are the possessions which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the
+son of Nun, and the princes of the families, and of the tribes of the
+children of Israel, distributed by lot in Silo, before the Lord at the
+door of the tabernacle of the testimony, and they divided the land.
+
+Josue Chapter 20
+
+The cities of refuge are appointed for casual manslaughter.
+
+20:1. And the Lord spoke to Josue, saying: Speak to children of Israel
+and say to them:
+
+20:2. Appoint cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of
+Moses:
+
+20:3. That whosoever shall kill a person unawares may flee to them, and
+may escape the wrath of the kinsman, who is the avenger of blood.
+
+20:4. And when he shall flee to one of these cities: he shall stand
+before the gate of the city, and shall speak to the ancients of that
+city, such things as prove him innocent: and so shall they receive him,
+and give him a place to dwell in.
+
+20:5. And when the avenger of blood shall pursue him, they shall not
+deliver him into his hands, because he slew his neighbour unawares, and
+is not proved to have been his enemy two or three days before,
+
+20:6. And he shall dwell in that city, till he stand before judgment to
+give an account of his fact, and till the death of the high priest, who
+shall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, and go into his
+own city and house from whence he fled.
+
+20:7. And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of mount Nephtali, and Sichem
+in mount Ephraim, and Cariath-Arbe, the same is Hebron in the mountain
+of Juda.
+
+20:8. And beyond the Jordan to the east of Jericho, they appointed
+Bosor, which is upon the plain of the wilderness of the tribe of Ruben,
+and Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in Basan of the
+tribe of Manasses.
+
+20:9. These cities were appointed for all the children of Israel, and
+for the strangers, that dwelt among them, that whosoever had killed a
+person unawares might flee to them, and not die by the hand of the
+kinsman, coveting to revenge the blood that was shed, until he should
+stand before the people to lay open his cause.
+
+Josue Chapter 21
+
+Cities with their suburbs are assigned for the priests and Levites.
+
+21:1. Then the princes of the families of Levi came to Eleazar the
+priest, and to Josue the son of Nun, and to the princes of the kindreds
+of all the tribes of the children of Israel.
+
+21:2. And they spoke to them in Silo in the land of Chanaan, and said:
+The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, that cities should be given us
+to dwell in, and their suburbs to feed our cattle.
+
+21:3. And the children of Israel gave out of their possessions according
+to the commandment of the Lord, cities and their suburbs.
+
+21:4. And the lot came out for the family of Caath of the children of
+Aaron the priest out of the tribes of Juda, and of Simeon, and of
+Benjamin, thirteen cities.
+
+21:5. And to the rest of the children of Caath, that is, to thee
+Levites, who remained, out of the tribes of Ephraim, and of Dan, and the
+half tribe of Manasses, ten cities.
+
+21:6. And the lot came out to children of Gerson, that they should take
+of the tribes of Issachar and of Aser and of Nephtali, and of the half
+tribe of Manasses in Basan, thirteen cities.
+
+21:7. And to the sons of Merari by their kindreds, of the tribes of
+Ruben and of Gad and of Zabulon, twelve cities.
+
+21:8. And the children of Israel gave to the Levites the cities and
+their suburbs, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses, giving to
+every one by lot.
+
+21:9. Of the tribes of the children of Juda and of Simeon Josue gave
+cities: whose names are these,
+
+21:10. To the sons of Aaron, of the families of Caath of the race of
+Levi (for the first lot came out for them)
+
+21:11. The city of Arbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in
+the mountain of Juda, and the suburbs thereof round about.
+
+21:12. But the fields and the villages thereof he had given to Caleb the
+son of Jephone for his possession.
+
+21:13. He gave therefore to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron a
+city of refuge, and the suburbs thereof, and Lebna with the suburbs
+thereof,
+
+21:14. And Jether and Estemo,
+
+21:15. And Holon, and Dabir,
+
+21:16. And Ain, and Jeta, and Bethsames, with their suburbs: nine cities
+out of the two tribes, as hath been said.
+
+21:17. And out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, and
+Gabae,
+
+21:18. And Anathoth and Almon, with, their suburbs: four cities.
+
+21:19. All the cities together of the children of Aaron the priest, were
+thirteen, with their suburbs,
+
+21:20. And to the rest of the families of the children of Caath of the
+race of Levi was given this possession.
+
+21:21. Of the tribe of Ephraim, Sichem one of the cities of refuge, with
+the suburbs thereof in mount Ephraim, and Gazer,
+
+21:22. And Cibsaim, and Beth-horon, with their suburbs, four cities.
+
+21:23. And of he tribe of Dan, Eltheco and Gabathon,
+
+21:24. And Aialon and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, four cities.
+
+21:25. And of the half tribe of Manasses, Thanac and Gethremmon, with
+their suburbs, two cities.
+
+21:26. All the cities were ten, with their suburbs, which were given to
+the children of Caath, of the inferior degree.
+
+21:27. To the children of Gerson also of the race of Levi out of the
+half tribe of Manasses, Gaulon in Basan, one of the cities of refuge,
+and Bosra, with their suburbs, two cities.
+
+21:28. And of the tribe of Issachar, Cesion, and Dabereth,
+
+21:29. And Jaramoth, and Engannim, with their suburbs, four cities.
+
+21:30. And of the tribe of Aser, Masal and Abdon,
+
+21:31. And Helcath, and Rohob, with their suburbs, four cities.
+
+21:32. Of the tribe also of Nephtali, Cedes in Galilee, one of the
+cities of refuge: and Hammoth Dor, and Carthan, with their suburbs,
+three cities.
+
+21:33. All the cities of the families of Gerson, were thirteen, with
+their suburbs.
+
+21:34. And to the children of Merari, Levites of the inferior degree, by
+their families were given of the tribe of Zabulon, Jecnam and Cartha,
+
+21:35. And Damna and Naalol, four cities with their suburbs.
+
+21:36. Of the tribe of Ruben beyond the Jordan over against Jericho,
+Bosor in the wilderness, one of the cities of refuge, Misor and Jaser
+and Jethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs.
+
+Four cities... There are no more, though there be five names: for Misor
+is the same city as Bosor, which is to be observed in some other places,
+where the number of names exceeds the number of cities.
+
+21:37. Of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Galaad, one of the cities of
+refuge, and Manaim and Hesebon and Jaser, four cities with their
+suburbs,
+
+21:38. All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and
+kindreds, were twelve.
+
+21:39. So all the cities of the Levites within the possession of the
+children of Israel were forty-eight,
+
+21:40.  With their suburbs, each distributed by the families.
+
+21:41. And the Lord God gave to Israel all the land that he had sworn to
+give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.
+
+21:42. And he gave them peace from all nations round about: and none of
+their enemies durst stand against them, but were brought under their
+dominion.
+
+21:43. Not so much as one word, which he had promised to perform unto
+them, was made void, but all came to pass.
+
+Josue Chapter 22
+
+The tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasses return to
+their possessions. They build an altar by the side of the Jordan, which
+alarms the other tribes. An embassage is sent to them, to which they
+give a satisfactory answer.
+
+22:1. At the same time Josue called the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and
+the half tribe of Manasses,
+
+22:2. And said to them: You have done all that Moses the servant of the
+Lord commanded you: you have also obeyed me in all things,
+
+22:3. Neither have you left your brethren this long time, until this
+present day, keeping the commandment of the Lord your God.
+
+22:4. Therefore as the Lord your God hath given your brethren rest and
+peace, as he promised: return, and go to your dwellings, and to the land
+of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond
+the Jordan:
+
+22:5. Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the
+commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded
+you: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep
+all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all your
+heart, and with all your soul.
+
+22:6. And Josue blessed them, and sent them away, and they returned to
+their dwellings.
+
+22:7. Now to half the tribe of Manasses, Moses had given a possession in
+Basan: and therefore to the half that remained, Josue gave a lot among
+the rest of their brethren beyond the Jordan to the west. And when he
+sent them away to their dwellings and had blessed them,
+
+22:8. He said to them: With much substance and riches, you return to
+your settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of
+raiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.
+
+22:9. So the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half
+tribe of Manasses returned, and parted from the children of Israel in
+Silo, which is in Chanaan, to go into Galaad the land of their
+possession, which they had obtained according to the commandment of the
+Lord by the hand of Moses.
+
+22:10. And when they were come to banks of the Jordan, in the land of
+Chanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.
+
+22:11. And when the children of Israel had heard of it, and certain
+messengers brought them an account that the children of Ruben, and of
+Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses had built an altar in the land of
+Chanaan, upon the banks of the Jordan, over against the children of
+Israel:
+
+22:12. They all assembled in Silo, to go up and fight against them.
+
+22:13. And in the mean time they sent to them into the land of Galaad,
+Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest,
+
+22:14. And ten princes with him, one of every tribe.
+
+22:15. Who came to the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and the half tribe
+of Manasses, into the land of Galaad, and said to them:
+
+22:16. Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this
+transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel,
+building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him?
+
+22:17. Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and
+the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the
+people perished.
+
+22:18. And you have forsaken the Lord to day, and to morrow his wrath
+will rage against all Israel.
+
+22:19. But if you think the land of your possession to be unclean, pass
+over to the land wherein is the tabernacle of the Lord, and dwell among
+us: only depart not from the Lord, and from our society, by building an
+altar beside the altar of the Lord our God.
+
+22:20. Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the
+Lord, and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was but
+one man, and would to God he alone had perished in his wickedness.
+
+22:21. And the children of Ruben, and of Gad, and of the half tribe of
+Manasses answered the princes of the embassage of Israel:
+
+22:22. The Lord the most mighty God, the Lord the most mighty God, he
+knoweth, and Israel also shall understand: If with the design of
+transgression we have set up this altar, let him not save us, but punish
+us immediately:
+
+22:23. And if we did it with that mind, that we might lay upon it
+holocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace offerings, let him
+require and judge:
+
+22:24. And not rather with this thought and design, that we should say:
+To morrow your children will say to our children: What have you to do
+with the Lord the God of Israel?
+
+22:25. The Lord hath put the river Jordan for a border between us and
+you, O ye children of Ruben, and ye children of Gad: and therefore you
+have no part in the Lord. And by this occasion your children shall turn
+away our children from the fear of the Lord.  We therefore thought it
+best,
+
+22:26. And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to
+offer victims,
+
+22:27. But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and
+yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer
+both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that
+your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in
+the Lord.
+
+22:28. And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the altar
+of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for
+sacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you.
+
+22:29. God keep us from any such wickedness that we should revolt from
+the Lord, and leave off following his steps, by building an altar to
+offer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, beside the altar of the
+Lord our God, which is erected before his tabernacle.
+
+22:30. And when Phinees the priest, and the princes of the embassage,
+who were with him, had heard this, they were satisfied: and they
+admitted most willingly the words of the children of Ruben, and Gad, and
+of the half tribe of Manasses,
+
+22:31. And Phinees the priest the son of Eleazar said to them: Now we
+know that the Lord is with us, because you are not guilty of this
+revolt, and you have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of
+the Lord.
+
+22:32. And he returned with the princes from the children of Ruben and
+Gad, out of the land of Galaad, into the land of Chanaan, to the
+children of Israel, and brought them word again.
+
+22:33. And the saying pleased all that heard it. And the children of
+Israel praised God, and they no longer said that they would go up
+against them, and fight, and destroy the land of their possession.
+
+22:34. And the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad called the
+altar which they had built, Our testimony, that the Lord is God,
+
+Josue Chapter 23
+
+Josue being old admonisheth the people to keep God's commandments: and
+to avoid marriages and all society with the Gentiles for fear of being
+brought to idolatry.
+
+23:1. And when a long time was passed, after that the Lord had given
+peace to Israel, all the nations round about being subdued and Josue
+being now old, and far advanced in years:
+
+23:2. Josue called for all Israel, and for the elders, and for the
+princes, and for the judges, and for the masters, and said to them: I am
+old, and far advanced in years,
+
+23:3. And you see all that the Lord your God hath done to all the
+nations round about, how he himself hath fought for you:
+
+23:4. And now since he hath divided to you by lot all the land, from the
+east of the Jordan unto the great sea, ant many nations yet remain:
+
+23:5. The Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from
+before your face, and you shall possess the land as he hath promised
+you.
+
+23:6. Only take courage, and be careful to observe all things that are
+written in the book of the law of Moses: and turn not aside from them
+neither to the right hand nor to the left:
+
+23:7. Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will
+remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve
+them, and adore them:
+
+23:8. But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this
+day.
+
+23:9. And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that
+are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.
+
+23:10. One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because the
+Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.
+
+23:11. This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord
+your God.
+
+23:12. But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell
+among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:
+
+23:13. Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy
+them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way,
+and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he
+take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he
+hath given you.
+
+23:14. Behold this day I am going into the way of all the earth, and you
+shall know with all your mind that of all the words which the Lord
+promised to perform for you, not one hath failed,
+
+23:15. Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed, what he promised, and all
+things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you all the evils he
+hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from off this
+excellent land, which he hath given you,
+
+23:16. When you shall have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your
+God, which he hath made with you, and shall have served strange gods,
+and adored them: then shall the indignation of the Lord rise up quickly
+and speedily against you, and you shall be taken away from this
+excellent land, which he hath delivered to you.
+
+Josue Chapter 24
+
+Josue assembleth the people, and reneweth the covenant between them and
+God. His death and burial.
+
+24:1. And Josue gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem,
+and called for the ancients, and the princes and the judges, and the
+masters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord:
+
+24:2. And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of
+Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river, Thare
+the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.
+
+Of the river... The Euphrates.
+
+24:3. And I took your father Abraham from the borders of Mesopotamia:
+and brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his seed,
+
+24:4. And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and Esau. And I
+gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his children
+went down into Egypt.
+
+24:5. And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt with many signs and
+wonders.
+
+24:6. And I brought you and your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to
+the sea: and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and
+horsemen, as far as the Red Sea.
+
+24:7. And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: and he put darkness
+between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and
+covered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you dwelt in
+the wilderness a long time.
+
+24:8. And I brought you into the land of the Amorrhite, who dwelt beyond
+the Jordan. And when they fought against you, I delivered them into your
+hands, and you possessed their land, and slew them.
+
+24:9. And Balac son of Sephor king of Moab arose and fought against
+Israel. And he sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you:
+
+24:10. And I would not hear him, but on the contrary I blessed you by
+him, and I delivered you out of his hand.
+
+24:11. And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to Jericho.  And the
+men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the Pherezite,
+and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the Hevite,
+and the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands.
+
+24:12. And I sent before you and I drove them out from their places, the
+two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with thy bow,
+
+24:13. And I gave you a land, in which you had not laboured, and cities
+to dwell in which you built not, vineyards and oliveyards, which you
+planted not.
+
+24:14. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and
+most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served in
+Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
+
+24:15. But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your
+choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather
+serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the
+gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my
+house we will serve thee Lord,
+
+24:16. And the people answered, and said, God forbid we should leave the
+Lord, and serve strange gods.
+
+24:17. The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out of the land of
+Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in our
+sight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among
+all the people through whom we passed.
+
+24:18. And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite the
+inhabitant of the land into which we are come. Therefore we will serve
+the Lord, for he is our God.
+
+24:19. And Josue said to the people: You will not be able to serve the
+Lord: for he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not forgive
+your wickedness and sins.
+
+You will not be able to serve the Lord, etc... This was not said by way
+of discouraging them; but rather to make them more earnest and resolute,
+by setting before them the greatness of the undertaking, and the courage
+and constancy necessary to go through with it.
+
+24:20. If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and
+will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done
+you.
+
+24:21. And the people said to Josue: No, it shall not be so as thou
+sayest, but we will serve the Lord.
+
+24:22. And Josue said to the people, You are witnesses, that you
+yourselves have chosen you the Lord to serve him. And they answered: We
+are witnesses.
+
+24:23. Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from among you, and
+incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.
+
+24:24. And the people said to Josue: We will serve the Lord our God, and
+we will be obedient to his commandments.
+
+24:25. Josue therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the
+people commandments and judgments in Sichem.
+
+24:26. And he wrote all these things in the volume of the law of the
+Lord: and he took a great stone, and set it under the oak that was in
+the sanctuary of the Lord.
+
+24:27. And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a
+testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which
+he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie
+to the Lord your God.
+
+It hath heard... This is a figure of speech, by which sensation is
+attributed to inanimate things; and they are called upon, as it were, to
+bear witness in favour of the great Creator, whom they on their part
+constantly obey.
+
+24:28. And he sent the people away every one to their own possession,
+
+24:29. And after these things Josue the son of Nun the servant of the
+Lord died, being a hundred and ten years old:
+
+And after, etc... If Josue wrote this book, as is commonly believed,
+these last verses were added by Samuel, or some other prophet.
+
+24:30. And they buried him in the border of his possession in
+Thamnathsare, which is situate in mount Ephraim, on the north side of
+mount Gaas.
+
+24:31. And Israel served the Lord all the days of Josue, and of the
+ancients that lived a long time after Josue, and that had known all the
+works of the Lord which he had done in Israel.
+
+24:32. And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel had taken
+out of Egypt, they buried in Sichem, in that part of the field which
+Jacob had bought of the sons of Hemor the father of Sichem, for a
+hundred young ewes, and it was in the possession of the sons of Joseph.
+
+24:33. Eleazar also the son of Aaron died: and they buried him in
+Gabaath that belongeth to Phinees his son, which was given him in mount
+Ephraim.
+
+
+
+
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