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Hello, this is Father Paul and I'm glad we're taking this journey together to read the Bible

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in a year.

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Today we'll begin the book of Joshua and we'll be reading the first five chapters, but we're

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going to be starting with Psalm 90.

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So let's begin.

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Psalm 90.

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Lord, you have been our dwelling place in all generations.

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Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world,

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even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

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You turn man to destruction and say, return, O children of men, for a thousand years in

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your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night you carry them

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away like a flood.

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They are like a sleep.

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In the morning they are like grass which grows up, in the morning it flourishes and grows

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up, in the evening it is cut down and withers.

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For we have been consumed by your anger, and by your wrath we are terrified.

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You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance,

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for all our days have passed away in your wrath.

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We finish our years like a sigh.

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The days of our lives are seventy years, and if by reason of strength they are eighty years,

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yet their boast is only labor and sorrow, for it is soon cut off and we fly away.

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Who knows the power of your anger, for as the fear of you so is your wrath.

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So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

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Return O Lord, how long?

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And have compassion on your servants, O satisfy us early with your mercy, that we may rejoice

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and be glad all our days.

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Make us glad according to the days in which you have afflicted us, the years in which

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we have seen evil.

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Let your work appear to your servants, and your glory to their children.

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And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands

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for us.

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Let us establish the work of our hands.

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Joshua Chapter 1

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After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke

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to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying,

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Moses, my servant, is dead.

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Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which

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I am giving to them, the children of Israel.

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Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to

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Moses.

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To the wilderness, and this Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all

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the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall

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be your territory.

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No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life, as I was with Moses,

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so I will be with you.

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I will not leave you nor forsake you.

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Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance

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the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

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Really be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the

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law which Moses my servant commanded you.

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Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you

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go.

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This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day

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and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you

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will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

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Have I not commanded you, be strong and of good courage, do not be afraid nor be dismayed,

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for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.

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Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, Pass through the camp and

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command the people, saying, Prepare provisions for yourselves, for within three days you

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will cross over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving

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you to possess.

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And to the Rubanites, the Gadites, and have the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua spoke, saying,

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Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord

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your God is giving you rest and is giving you this land.

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Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land which Moses gave

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you on this side of the Jordan.

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But you shall pass before your brethren armed, all your mighty men of valor, and help them,

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until the Lord has given your brethren rest as he gave you.

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And they also have taken possession of the land which the Lord your God is giving them.

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Then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it.

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Which Moses the Lord's servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrise.

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So they answered Joshua, saying, All that you command us we will do, and wherever you

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send us we will go.

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Just as we heeded Moses in all things, so we will heed you.

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Only the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses.

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Whoever rebels against your command and does not heed your words, in all that you command

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him shall be put to death.

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Only be strong and of good courage.

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Chapter 2

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Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying,

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Go view the land, especially Jericho.

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So they went and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab and lodged there.

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And it was told the king of Jericho saying, Behold men have come in here tonight from

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the children of Israel to search out the country.

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So the king of Jericho sent Rahab saying, Bring out the men who have come to you who

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have entered your house, for they have come to search out all the country.

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Then the woman took the two men and hid them.

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So she said, Yes the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

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And it happened as the gate was being shut, when it was dark, that the men went out.

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Where the men went I do not know, pursue them quickly, for you may overtake them.

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But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which

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she had laid in order on the roof.

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Then the men pursued them by the road to the Jordan to the fords.

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And as soon as those who pursued them had gone out, they shut the gate.

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Now before they lay down, she came up to them on the roof, and said to the men, I know that

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the LORD has given you the land, that the terror of you has fallen on us, and that all

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the inhabitants of the land are fainthearted because of you.

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For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came

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out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the other

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side of the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

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And as soon as we heard these things our hearts melted.

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Neither did there remain any more courage in anyone because of you, for the LORD your

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God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath.

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Now therefore I beg you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have shown you kindness, that

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you also will show kindness to my father's house and give me a true token, and spare

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my father, my mother, my brothers, my sister, and all that they have, and deliver our lives

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from death.

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So the men answered her, our lives for yours.

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If none of you tell this business of ours, and it shall be when the LORD has given us

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the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.

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Then she led them down by a rope through the window, for her house was on the city wall,

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she dwelt on the wall, and she said to them, get to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet

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you, hide there three days until the pursuers have returned, afterward you may go your way.

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So the men said to her, we will be blameless of this oath of yours which you have made

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us swear, unless when we have come into the land you bind this line of scarlet cord in

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the window through which you let us down, and unless you bring your father, your mother,

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your brothers, and all your father's household to your own home.

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So it shall be that whoever goes outside the doors of your house into the street, his blood

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shall be on his own head, and we will be guiltless.

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And whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head if a hand is laid

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on him.

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And if you tell this business of ours, then we will be free from your oath which you made

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us swear.

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Then she said, according to your words, so be it.

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And she sent them away, and they departed, and she bound the scarlet cord in the window.

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They departed and went to the mountain, and stayed there three days until the pursuers

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The pursuers sought them all along the way, but did not find them.

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So the two men returned, descended from the mountain, and crossed over.

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And they came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all that had befallen them.

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And they said to Joshua, truly the Lord has delivered all the land into our hands, for

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indeed all the inhabitants of the country are fainthearted because of us.

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Chapter 3 Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and

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they set out from Acacia Grove, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel,

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and lodged there before they crossed over.

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So it was after three days that the officers went through the camp, and they commanded

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the people saying, When you see the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord your God, and the

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priests, the Levites bearing it, then you shall set out from your place and go after

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Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure.

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Do not come near it, that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not

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passed this way before.

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Then Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among

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you.

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Then Joshua spoke to the priests saying, Take up the Ark of the Covenant and cross over

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before the people.

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So they took up the Ark of the Covenant and went before the people.

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And the Lord said to Joshua, This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel,

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that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

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You shall command the priests who bear the Ark of the Covenant saying, When you have

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come to the edge of the water of the Jordan, you shall stand in the Jordan.

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So Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here and hear the words of the Lord your

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God.

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And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the Living God is among you, and that he will

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without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hevites

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and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites.

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Behold the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you

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into the Jordan.

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Now therefore take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every

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tribe and it shall come to pass as soon as the souls of the feet of the priests who bear

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the Ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that

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the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream and

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they shall stand as a heap.

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So it was when the people set out from their camp to cross over the Jordan with the priests

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bearing the Ark of the Covenant before the people.

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And as those who bore the Ark came to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore

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the Ark dipped in the edge of the water, for the Jordan overflows all its banks during

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the whole time of harvest, that the waters which came down from upstream stood still

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and rose in a heap very far away at Adam, the city that is beside Zaretan.

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So the waters that went down into the sea of the Araba, the salt sea, failed and were

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cut off, and the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

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Then the priests who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the

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midst of the Jordan, and all Israel crossed over on dry ground until all the people had

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crossed completely over the Jordan.

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Chapter 4 And it came to pass when all the people had

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completely crossed over the Jordan, that the Lord spoke to Joshua saying, Take for yourselves

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twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe, and command them saying, Take for yourselves

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twelve stones from here, out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests'

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feet stood firm.

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You shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place where you lodged

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tonight.

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Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel,

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one man from every tribe.

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And Joshua said to them, Cross over before the Ark of the Lord your God into the midst

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of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder according to the number

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of the tribes of the children of Israel, that this may be a sign among you when your children

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ask in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean to you?

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Then you shall answer them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the Ark

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of the Covenant of the Lord, when it crossed over the Jordan.

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The waters of the Jordan were cut off, and these stones shall be a memorial to the children

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of Israel forever.

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And the children of Israel did so just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones

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from the midst of the Jordan as the Lord had spoken to Joshua, according to the number

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of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where

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they lodged, and laid them down there.

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Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in a place where the feet of

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the priests who bore the Ark of the Covenant stood, and they are there to this day.

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So the priests who bore the Ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished

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that the Lord had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses

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had commanded Joshua, and the people hurried and crossed over.

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Then it came to pass, when all the people who had completely crossed over, that the

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Ark of the Lord and the priests crossed over in the presence of the people.

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And the men of Reuben, the men of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed

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before the children of Israel as Moses had spoken to them.

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About forty thousand prepared for war, crossed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains

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of Jericho.

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On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him,

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as they had feared Moses all the days of his life.

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Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, Command the priests who bear the Ark of the Testimony

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to come up from the Jordan.

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Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up from the Jordan.

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And it came to pass when the priests who bore the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord had come

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from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet touched the dry ground,

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that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks as

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Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they

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camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.

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Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children ask their fathers in time

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to come saying, What are these stones?

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Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land.

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For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed

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over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we

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had crossed over, that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that

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it is mighty that you may fear the Lord your God forever.

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Chapter 5 So it was when all the kings of the Amorites

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who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by

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the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children

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of Israel until we had crossed over, that their heart melted and there was no spirit

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in them any longer because of the children of Israel.

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At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make flint knives for yourself, and circumcise

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the sons of Israel again the second time.

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So Joshua made flint knives for himself and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill

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of the foreskins.

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And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them.

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All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the

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wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt.

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For all the people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the wilderness,

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on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.

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For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who

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were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed.

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Because they did not obey the voice of the Lord, to whom the Lord swore that He would

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not show them the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would give

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us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Then Joshua circumcised their sons, whom he raised up in their place, for they were

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uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

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So it was, when they had finished circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their

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places in the camp till they were healed.

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Then the Lord said to Joshua, This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.

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Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.

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Now the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day

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of the month, at twilight on the plains of Jericho.

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And they ate of the produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread

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and parched grain, on the very same day.

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Then the manna ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land.

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And the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan

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that year.

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And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold

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a man stood opposite him, with his sword drawn in his hand.

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And Joshua went to him and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?

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So he said, No, but as commander of the army of the Lord, I have now come.

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And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshipped, and said to him, What does my

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Lord say to his servant?

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And the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take your sandal off your foot,

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for the place where you stand is holy.

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And Joshua did so.

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I hope you enjoyed today's reading as much as I did, and I look forward to seeing you

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again tomorrow to continue on our journey.

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God bless you and have a great day.