¹⁰And Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why^j have you fallen on your face? ¹¹Israel has sinned and transgressed my covenant^k that I commanded them. They have taken from the devoted things;^l they have stolen and acted deceitfully, and they have put them among their belongings. ¹²The Israelites^m were unable to stand before their enemies; they fled from their enemiesⁿ because they have become a thing devoted^o for destruction. I will be with you no more^p unless you destroy the devoted things^q from among you. ¹³Get up, sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow. Thus says Yahweh the God of Israel: “There are devoted things^r in your midst, O Israel. You will be unable to stand before your enemies until you remove the devoted things^s from your midst.” ¹⁴In the morning you will come forward, tribe by tribe,^t and the tribe that Yahweh will select by lot will come forward by clans, and the clan that Yahweh selects by lot will come forward by families, and the family that Yahweh selects by lot will come forward one by one. ¹⁵The one caught with the devoted things^u will be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he transgressed the covenant^v of Yahweh, and because he did a disgraceful thing in Israel.” ’ ”

¹⁶So^w Joshua rose early in the morning and brought forward Israel, tribe by tribe,^x and the tribe of Judah was selected by lot. ¹⁷And he brought forward the clans of Judah and selected the clan of the Zerahites^y by lot. Then he brought forward the clan of the Zerahites,^z one by one, and Zabdi was selected by lot. ¹⁸He brought forward his family, one by one, and Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected by lot.

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Footnotes

jLiterally “For what this”
kLiterally “crossed my covenant”
lHebrew “thing” or “from the consecrated possession”
mLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
nLiterally “they turned their neck before their enemies”
oOr “consecrated”
pLiterally “I will not do again to be with you”
qHebrew “thing” or “consecrated possession”
rHebrew “thing” or “consecrated possession”
sHebrew “thing” or “consecrated possession”
tLiterally “according to your tribes”
uHebrew “thing” or “consecrated possession”
vLiterally “he crossed the covenant”
wOr “And”
xLiterally “according to its tribes”
yHebrew “Zerahite”
zHebrew “Zerahite”