And he said to them, “I am a hundred and twenty years old today; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD/ has said to me, ‘You shall not cross this Jordan.’
Then the LORD/ said to Moses, “Behold, the time for you to die is near; call Joshua, and present yourselves at the tent of meeting, that I may commission him.” So Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting.
The LORD/ said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
+“For I know your rebellion and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD/; how much more, then, after my death?
-“Remember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations. Ask your father, and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you.
-“How could one chase a thousand, And two put ten thousand to flight, Unless their Rock had sold them, And the LORD/ had given them up?
If I sharpen My flashing sword, And My hand takes hold on justice, I will render vengeance on My adversaries, And I will repay those who hate Me.
Although Moses was one hundred and twenty years old when he died, his eye was not dim, nor his vigor abated.
It was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men from the sons of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land.”
+“Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD/, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal kindly with my father’s household, and give me a pledge of truth,
unless, when we come into the land, you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window through which you let us down, and gather to yourself into the house your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father’s household.
+“Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over ahead of you into the Jordan.
Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us or for our adversaries?”
+“But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD/; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD/.”
They utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD/.
However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
+‘In the morning then you shall come near by your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which the LORD/ takes {by lot} shall come near by families, and the family which the LORD/ takes shall come near by households, and the household which the LORD/ takes shall come near man by man.
He brought his household near man by man; and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, was taken.
when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”
