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

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