Joshua 7:10–18

The Sin of Achan

¹⁰So the Lord said to Joshua: “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face? ¹¹Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. ^kFor they have even taken some of the ⁷accursed things, and have both stolen and ^ldeceived; and they have also put it among their own stuff. ^12mTherefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because ⁿthey have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you. ¹³Get up, ^osanctify ⁸the people, and say, ^p‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, because thus says the Lord God of Israel: “There is an accursed thing in your midst, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the accursed thing from among you.” ¹⁴In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which ^qthe Lord takes shall come according to families; and the family which the Lord takes shall come by households; and the household which the Lord takes shall come man by man. ^15rThen it shall be that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has ^stransgressed ⁹the covenant of the Lord, and because he ^thas done a disgraceful thing in Israel.’ ”

¹⁶So Joshua rose early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken. ¹⁷He brought the clan of Judah, and he took the family of the Zarhites; and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man, and Zabdi was taken. ¹⁸Then he brought his household man by man, and Achan the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, ^uwas taken.