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. ¹⁹And Joshua said to Achan, “My son, please, give glory to Yahweh the God of Israel, and give him a doxology in court.^a Tell me, please, what you have done; do not hide it from me.” ²⁰And Achan answered Joshua and said, “It is true. I have sinned against Yahweh the God of Israel, and this is what I did: ²¹I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar,^b two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold that weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver is under it.”

²²Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and there they were, hidden in his tent, and the silver was under it. ²³And they took them from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites.^c And they spread them out before the presence of Yahweh. ²⁴Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his cattle and donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and everything that was his, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.^d ²⁵And Joshua said, “Why did you bring us trouble? Yahweh will bring you trouble on this day.” And all Israel stoned them^e with stones;^f and they burned them with fire after they stoned them with stones. ²⁶Then they placed^g on top of him a great pile of stones that remains to this day. And Yahweh turned from his burning anger,^h and thus the name of that place to this day is called the valley of Achor.ⁱ

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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”
aSome interpret “make a confession”
b“Shinar” refers to Babylonia
cLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
dHebrew “trouble”; a valley in the Jericho region
eHebrew “him”
fHebrew “stone”
gLiterally “they raised up”
hLiterally “turned from his burning nose”
iHebrew “trouble”; a valley in the Jericho region