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Joshua1

¹Now after the death of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) it came to pass, that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity], Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters]’ minister, saying,

²Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Yarden [Descender], youi, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, [even] to the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³Every place that the sole of your foot shall trample upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

⁴From the wilderness and this L’vanon [Whiteness] even unto the great river, the river Euphrates (to break forth, to gush), all the land of the Hitti [Terrorists], and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

⁵There shall not any man be able to stand before youi all the days of youi life: as I was with Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], [so] I will be with youi: I will not fail youi, nor forsake youi.

⁶Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shall youi divide for an inheritance the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give them.

⁷Only be youi strong and very courageous, that youi may observe to do according to all the law, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] my servant commanded youi: turn not from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that youi may prosper to wherever youi go.

⁸This book of the law shall not depart out of youri mouth; but youi shall meditate in it day and night, that youi may observe to do according to all that is written in it: for then youi shall make youi way prosperous, and then youi shall have good success.

⁹Have not I commanded youi? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be youi dismayed: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] with youi to wherever youi go.

¹⁰Then Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] commanded the officers of the people, saying,

¹¹Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals (food for humans); for within three days you2f shall pass over this Yarden [Descender], to go in to possess the land, which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] gives you to possess it.

¹²And to the Re’uveni [behold, a son!], and to the Gadi [my fortune] [A Troop], and to half the tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], spoke Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], saying,

¹³Remember the word which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded you, saying, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has given you rest, and has given you this land.

¹⁴Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] gave you on this side Yarden [Descender]; but you2f shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;

¹⁵Until the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) have given your brethren rest, as [he has given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] gives them: then you2f shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] servant gave you on this side Yarden [Descender] toward the sunrising.

¹⁶And they answered Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], saying, All that youi command us we will do, and to wherever youi send us, we will go.

¹⁷According as we listened unto Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] in all things, so will we hearken unto youi: only the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] be with youi, as he was with Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

¹⁸Whosoever [he be] that does rebel against youri commandment, and will not hearken unto youri words in all that youi command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.

¹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity] sent out of Sheetim [The Acacias] two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Yericho [Its Moon]. And they went, and came into an prostitute’s house, named Rachav [Wide], and lodged there.

²And it was told the king of Yericho [Its Moon], saying, Behold, there came men in here to night of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to search out the country.

³And the king of Yericho [Its Moon] sent unto Rachav [Wide], saying, Bring forth the men that are come to youi, which are entered into youi house: for they be come to search out all the country.

⁴And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I did not know not from what place they [were]:

⁵And it came to pass [about the time] of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: to which the men went I know not: pursue after them quickly; for you2f shall overtake them.

⁶But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

⁷And the men pursued after them the way to Yarden [Descender] unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

⁸And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;

⁹And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

¹⁰For we have heard how the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when you2f came out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; and what you2f did unto the two kings of the Emori [Highlanders], that [were] on the other side Yarden [Descender], Sichon [Warrior] and ‘Og [Long-necked], whom you2f utterly destroyed.

¹¹And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], he [is] God-Elōhīm Bashamayim [The Living Word of GOD in Heaven] above, and in earth beneath.

¹²Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), since I have showed you kindness, that you2f will also show kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:

¹³And [that] you2f will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.

¹⁴And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you2f utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with youi.

¹⁵Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house [was] upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

¹⁶And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you2f go your way.

¹⁷And the men said unto her, We [will be] blameless of this youi oath which youi have made us swear.

¹⁸Behold, [when] we come into the land, youi shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which youi did let us down by: and youi shall bring youi father, and youi mother, and youi brethren, and all youi father’s household, home unto youi.

¹⁹And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of youi house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be with youi in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.

²⁰And if youi utter this our business, then we will be quit (acquitted; found not guilty) of youi oath which youi have made us to swear.

²¹And she said, According unto your words, so [be] it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

²²And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought [them] throughout all the way, but found [them] not.

²³So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity], and told him all [things] that befell them:

²⁴And they said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Truly the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.

¹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] rose early in the morning; and they removed from Sheetim [The Acacias], and came to Yarden [Descender], he and all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and lodged there before they passed over.

²And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;

³And they commanded the people, saying, When you2f see the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and the priests the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] bearing it, then you2f shall remove from your place, and go after it.

⁴Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that you2f may know the way by which you2f must go: for you2f have not passed [this] way heretofore.

⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto the people, Sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) yourselves: for tomorrow the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) will do wonders among you.

⁶And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] spoke unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

⁷And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], This day will I begin to magnify youi in the sight of all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that they may know that, as I was with Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], [so] I will be with youi.

⁸And youi shall command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you2f are come to the brink of the water of Yarden [Descender], you2f shall stand still in Yarden [Descender].

⁹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Come here, and hear the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁰And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said, Hereby you2f shall know that the living God-El Chai [is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you the Kena’ani [Merchant], and the Hitti [Terrorists], and the Hivi [Villagers], and the P’rizi [Dwellers in Unwalled Towns], and the Girgashi [Dwelling on Clay Soil], and the Emori [Highlanders], and the Y’vusi [Threshers, Trampled Under Foot].

¹¹Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord-Adon of all the earth passes over before you into Yarden [Descender].

¹²Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], out of every tribe a man.

¹³And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Yarden [Descender], [that] the waters of Yarden [Descender] shall be cut off [from] the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.

¹⁴And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Yarden [Descender], and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

¹⁵And as they that bore the ark were come unto Yarden [Descender], and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Yarden [Descender] overflows all his banks all the time of harvest,)

¹⁶That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam (Man, ground; red; earthling), that [is] beside Tzartan [Their Distress]: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were cut off: and the people passed over right against Yericho [Its Moon].

¹⁷And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Yarden [Descender], and all the Yisra’eli’s passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Yarden [Descender].

¹And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Yarden [Descender], that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], saying,

²Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

³And command you2f them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Yarden [Descender], out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and you2f shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where you2f shall lodge this night.

⁴Then Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], out of every tribe a man:

⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] into the midst of Yarden [Descender], and take you2f up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]:

⁶That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] you2f by these stones?

⁷Then you2f shall answer them, That the waters of Yarden [Descender] were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); when it passed over Yarden [Descender], the waters of Yarden [Descender] were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] forever.

⁸And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] did so as Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Yarden [Descender], as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], according to the number of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

⁹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] set up twelve stones in the midst of Yarden [Descender], in the place where the feet of the priests which bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

¹⁰For the priests which bore the ark stood in the midst of Yarden [Descender], until everything was finished that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] to speak unto the people, according to all that Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] commanded Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation]: and the people hasted and passed over.

¹¹And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people.

¹²And the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and half the tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], passed over armed before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], as Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] spoke unto them:

¹³About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) unto battle, to the plains of Yericho [Its Moon].

¹⁴On that day the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) magnified Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] in the sight of all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and they feared him, as they feared Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], all the days of his life.

¹⁵And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], saying,

¹⁶Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Yarden [Descender].

¹⁷Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come you2f up out of Yarden [Descender].

¹⁸And it came to pass, when the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) were come up out of the midst of Yarden [Descender], [and] the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Yarden [Descender] returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as [they did] before.

¹⁹And the people came up out of Yarden [Descender] on the tenth [day] of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], in the east border of Yericho [Its Moon].

²⁰And those twelve stones, which they took out of Yarden [Descender], did Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] pitch in Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling].

²¹And he spoke unto the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones?

²²Then you2f shall let your children know, saying, Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] came over this Yarden [Descender] on dry land.

²³For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] dried up the waters of Yarden [Descender] from before you, until you2f were passed over, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:

²⁴That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that it [is] mighty: that you2f might fear the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] forever.

¹And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Emori [Highlanders], which [were] on the side of Yarden [Descender] westward, and all the kings of the Kena’ani [Merchant], which [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had dried up the waters of Yarden [Descender] from before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them anymore, because of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²At that time the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Make youi sharp knives, and circumcise again the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] the second time.

³And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] made him sharp knives, and circumcised the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] at the hill of the foreskins.

⁴And this [is] the cause why Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] did circumcise: All the people that came out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], [that were] males, [even] all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

⁵Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], [them] they had not circumcised.

⁶For the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): unto whom the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) swore that he would not show them the land, which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) swore unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.

⁷And their children, [whom] he raised up in their stead, them Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

⁸And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

⁹And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], This day have I rolled away the reproach (disgrace; shame) of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place] from off you. For what reason the name of the place is called Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling] unto this day.

¹⁰And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] encamped in Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Yericho [Its Moon].

¹¹And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the selfsame day.

¹²And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] manna anymore; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Kena’an [Merchant] that year.

¹³And it came to pass, when Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] was by Yericho [Its Moon], that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] went unto him, and said unto him, [Are] youi for us, or for our adversaries?

¹⁴And he said, No; but [as] Captain of the Host [Army] of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) am I now come. And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What says my lord Adon [Ruler of the Earth] unto his servant?

¹⁵And the captain of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] host said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Loose youi shoe from off youi foot; for the place whereon youi stand [is] holy. And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] did so.

¹Now Yericho [Its Moon] was straitly shut up because of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: none went out, and none came in.

²And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], See, I have given into youi hand Yericho [Its Moon], and the king thereof, [and] the mighty men of valour.

³And you2f shall compass (go around, encircle; encompass) the city, all [you2f] men of war, [and] go round about the city once. Thus shall youi do six days.

⁴And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day you2f shall compass (go around, encircle; encompass) the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

⁵And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long [blast] with the ram’s horn, [and] when you2f hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

⁶And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity] called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁷And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass (go around, encircle; encompass) the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

⁸And it came to pass, when Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) followed them.

⁹And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

¹⁰And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] had commanded the people, saying, You2f shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall [any] word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall you2f shout.

¹¹So the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) compassed the city, going about [it] once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

¹²And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹³And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

¹⁴And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

¹⁵And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

¹⁶And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has given you the city.

¹⁷And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that [are] in it, to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): only Rachav [Wide] the prostitute shall live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

¹⁸And you2f, in any wise keep [yourselves] from the accursed thing, lest you2f make [yourselves] accursed, when you2f take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] a curse, and trouble it.

¹⁹But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are] consecrated unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): they shall come into the treasury of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁰So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

²¹And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

²²But Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you2f swore unto her.

²³And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rachav [Wide], and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her family, and left them without the camp of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²⁴And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] in it: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] saved Rachav [Wide] the prostitute alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwells in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [even] unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] sent to spy out Yericho [Its Moon].

²⁶And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that rises up and builds this city Yericho [It’s Moon]: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates of it.

²⁷So the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was with Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation]; and his fame was [noised] throughout all the country.

¹But the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for ‘Akhan [Troubler], the son of Karmi [Fruitful, Noble], the son of Zavdi [Endowment], the son of Zerach [Rising], of the tribe of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) was kindled against the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] sent men from Yericho [Its Moon] to ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], which [is] beside Beit-On [vanity] [house of vanity], on the east side of Beit-El [House of God], and spoke unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins].

³And they returned to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins]; [and] make not all the people to labour there; for they [are but] few.

⁴So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins].

⁵And the men of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] struck of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Sh’varim [the breaches], and struck them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

⁶And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) until the eventide, he and the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and put dust upon their heads.

⁷And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said, Alas, O Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things] GOD-Yehōvih (THE FATHER), wherefore have youi at all brought this people over Yarden [Descender], to deliver us into the hand of the Emori [Highlanders], to destroy us? would to God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Yarden [Descender]!

⁸O Lord-Adonai [Greatest Above All Things], what shall I say, when Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] turns their backs before their enemies!

⁹For the Kena’ani [Merchant] and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of it], and shall environ (surround; compass) us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will youi do unto youi great name?

¹⁰And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Get youi up; wherefore lay youi thus upon youi face?

¹¹Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled (used deceit; pretended; feigned) also, and they have put [it] even among their own stuff.

¹²Therefore the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] could not stand before their enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except you2f destroy the accursed from among you.

¹³Up, sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) the people, and say, Sanctify (make holy; set apart for God’s use) yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [There is] an accursed thing in the midst of youi, O Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: youi cannot stand before youi enemies, until you2f take away the accursed thing from among you.

¹⁴In the morning therefore you2f shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, [that] the tribe which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) takes shall come according to the families [thereof]; and the family which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall take shall come man by man.

¹⁵And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and because he has wrought folly in Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁶So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] rose up early in the morning, and brought Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] by their tribes; and the tribe of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] was taken:

¹⁷And he brought the family of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; and he took the family of the Zarchi: and he brought the family of the Zarchi man by man; and Zavdi [Endowment] was taken:

¹⁸And he brought his household man by man; and ‘Akhan [Troubler], the son of Karmi [Fruitful, Noble], the son of Zavdi [Endowment], the son of Zerach [Rising], of the tribe of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], was taken.

¹⁹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto ‘Akhan [Troubler], My son, give, I pray youi, glory to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and make confession unto him; and tell me now what youi have done; hide [it] not from me.

²⁰And ‘Akhan [Troubler] answered Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and thus and thus have I done:

²¹When I saw among the spoils a goodly Shin’ar (Babylonian) garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

²²So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

²³And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and unto all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and laid them out before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁴And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, took ‘Akhan [Troubler] the son of Zerach [Rising], and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Akhor [Trouble].

²⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said, Why have youi troubled us? the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall trouble youi this day. And all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

²⁶And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) turned from the fierceness of his anger. For what reason the name of that place was called, The valley of Akhor [Trouble], unto this day.

¹And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Fear not, neither be youi dismayed: take all the people of war with youi, and arise, go up to ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins]: see, I have given into youi hand the king of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], and his people, and his city, and his land:

²And youi shall do to ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] and her king as youi did unto Yericho [Its Moon] and her king: only the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall you2f take for a prey unto yourselves: lay youi an ambush for the city behind it.

³So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] arose, and all the people of war, to go up against ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins]: and Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by night.

⁴And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you2f shall lie in wait against the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be you2f all ready:

⁵And I, and all the people that [are] with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,

⁶(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them.

⁷Then you2f shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will deliver it into your hand.

⁸And it shall be, when you2f have taken the city, [that] you2f shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) shall you2f do. See, I have commanded you.

⁹Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beit-El [House of God] and ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], on the west side of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins]: but Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] lodged that night among the people.

¹⁰And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], before the people to ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins].

¹¹And all the people, [even the people] of war that [were] with him, went up, and drew near, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins]: now [there was] a valley between them and ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins].

¹²And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beit-El [House of God] and ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], on the west side of the city.

¹³And when they had set the people, [even] all the host that [was] on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] went that night into the midst of the valley.

¹⁴And it came to pass, when the king of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] saw [it], that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know not that [there were] liers in ambush against him behind the city.

¹⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

¹⁶And all the people that [were] in ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and were drawn away from the city.

¹⁷And there was not a man left in ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] or Beit-El [House of God], that went not out after Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: and they left the city open, and pursued after Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁸And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Stretch out the spear that [is] in youi hand toward ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins]; for I will give it into youi hand. And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] stretched out the spear that [he had] in his hand toward the city.

¹⁹And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

²⁰And when the men of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

²¹And when Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins].

²²And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

²³And the king of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] they took alive, and brought him to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation].

²⁴And it came to pass, when Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Yisra’eli’s returned unto ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], and struck it with the edge of the sword.

²⁵And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, both of men and women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins].

²⁶For Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] drew not his hand back, which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins].

²⁷Only the cattle and the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of that city Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) which he commanded Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation].

²⁸And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] burnt ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], and made it an heap forever, [even] a desolation unto this day.

²⁹And the king of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, [that remains] unto this day.

³⁰Then Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] built an altar unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in mount ‘Eival [Stone],

³¹As Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], as it is written in the book of the law of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], an altar of whole stones, over which no man has lift up [any] iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and sacrificed peace offerings.

³²And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], which he wrote in the presence of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³³And all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], which bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount G’rizim [Cuttings Off], and half of them over against mount ‘Eival [Stone]; as Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³⁴And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

³⁵There was not a word of all that Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] commanded, which Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] read not before all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

¹And it came to pass, when all the kings which [were] on this side Yarden [Descender], in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against L’vanon [Whiteness], the Hitti [Terrorists], and the Emori [Rebellious Highlanders], the Kena’ani [Merchants], the P’rizi [Villagers], the Hivi [Wicked Villagers], and the Y’vusi [Threshers], heard [thereof];

²That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] and with Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], with one accord.

³And when the inhabitants of Giv’on [Hill City] heard what Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] had done unto Yericho [Its Moon] and to ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins],

⁴They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

⁵And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry [and] mouldy.

⁶And they went to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] unto the camp at Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], and said unto him, and to the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], We be come from a far country: now therefore make you2f a league with us.

⁷And the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] said unto the Hivi [Villagers], Perhaps you2f dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

⁸And they said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], We [are] youi servants. And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto them, Who [are] you2f? and from what place come you2f?

⁹And they said unto him, From a very far country youi servants are come because of the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place],

¹⁰And all that he did to the two kings of the Emori [Highlanders], that [were] beyond Yarden [Descender], to Sichon [Warrior] king of Heshbon [Stronghold], and to ‘Og [Long-necked] king of Bashan [Fruitful], which [was] at ‘Ashtarot [Star (female deity)].

¹¹For what reason our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take victuals (food for humans) with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We [are] your servants: therefore now make you2f a league with us.

¹²This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:

¹³And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.

¹⁴And the men took of their victuals (food for humans), and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore unto them.

¹⁶And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they [were] their neighbours, and [that] they dwelt among them.

¹⁷And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Giv’on [Hill City], and K’firah [Lioness], and B’erot [Wells], and Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests].

¹⁸And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] struck them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.

¹⁹But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: now therefore we may not touch them.

²⁰This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.

²¹And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.

²²And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] called for them, and he spoke unto them, saying, For what reason have you2f beguiled us, saying, We [are] very far from you; when you2f dwell among us?

²³Now therefore you2f [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²⁴And they answered Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and said, Because it was certainly told youi servants, how that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) youi God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] commanded his servant Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

²⁵And now, behold, we [are] in youi hand: as it seems good and right unto youi to do unto us, do.

²⁶And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], that they killed them not.

²⁷And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.

¹Now it came to pass, when Adoni-Tzedek [My lord is Righteous] king of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] had heard how Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] had taken ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Yericho [Its Moon] and her king, so he had done to ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins] and her king; and how the inhabitants of Giv’on [Hill City] had made peace with Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and were among them;

²That they feared greatly, because Giv’on [Hill City] [was] a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], and all the men thereof [were] mighty.

³For what reason Adoni-Tzedek [My lord is Righteous] king of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] sent unto Hoham [Whom Yehovah impels] king of Hevron [Seat of Association], and unto Piram king of Yarmut [Heights], and unto Yafia [Shining] king of Lakhish [Invincible], and unto D’vir [Sanctuary] king of ‘Eglon [Calf-like], saying,

⁴Come up unto me, and help me, that we may strike Giv’on [Hill City]: for it has made peace with Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] and with the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁵Therefore the five kings of the Emori [Highlanders], the king of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the king of Hevron [Seat of Association], the king of Yarmut [Heights], the king of Lakhish [Invincible], the king of ‘Eglon [Calf-like], gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Giv’on [Hill City], and made war against it.

⁶And the men of Giv’on [Hill City] sent unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] to the camp to Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], saying, Slack not youi hand from youi servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Emori [Highlanders] that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.

⁷So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] ascended from Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

⁸And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Fear them not: for I have delivered them into youi hand; there shall not a man of them stand before youi.

⁹Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] therefore came unto them suddenly, [and] went up from Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling] all night.

¹⁰And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) scattered (defeated in battle) them before Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and killed them with a great slaughter at Giv’on [Hill City], and chased them along the way that goes up to Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness], and struck them to ‘Azekah [Dug Over], and unto Makkedah [Place of Shepherds].

¹¹And it came to pass, as they fled from before Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [and] were in the going down to Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness], that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto ‘Azekah [Dug Over], and they died: [they were] more which died with hailstones than [they] whom the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] killed with the sword.

¹²Then spoke Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in the day when the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) delivered up the Emori [Highlanders] before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and he said in the sight of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Sun, stand youi still upon Giv’on [Hill City]; and youi, Moon, in the valley of Ayalon [Field of Deer].

¹³And the sun stood still, and the moon detained (held), until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in the book of Yahsar [Upright, Correct]? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

¹⁴And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) listened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) fought for Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] returned, and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, unto the camp to Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling].

¹⁶But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah [Place of Shepherds].

¹⁷And it was told Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah [Place of Shepherds].

¹⁸And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:

¹⁹And stay you2f not, [but] pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has delivered them into your hand.

²⁰And it came to pass, when Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest [which] remained of them entered into fenced cities.

²¹And all the people returned to the camp to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] at Makkedah [Place of Shepherds] in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²²Then said Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.

²³And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the king of Hevron [Seat of Association], the king of Yarmut [Heights], the king of Lakhish [Invincible], [and] the king of ‘Eglon [Calf-like].

²⁴And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], that Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] called for all the men of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

²⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) do to all your enemies against whom you2f fight.

²⁶And afterward Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] struck them, and killed them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

²⁷And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, [that] Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave’s mouth, [which remain] until this very day.

²⁸And that day Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] took Makkedah [Place of Shepherds], and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that [were] in it; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah [Place of Shepherds] as he did unto the king of Yericho [Its Moon].

²⁹Then Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] passed from Makkedah [Place of Shepherds], and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, unto Livnah [Pavement], and fought against Livnah [Pavement]:

³⁰And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Yericho [Its Moon].

³¹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] passed from Livnah [Pavement], and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, unto Lakhish [Invincible], and encamped against it, and fought against it:

³²And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) delivered Lakhish [Invincible] into the hand of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], which took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it, according to all that he had done to Livnah [Pavement].

³³Then Horam king of Gezer [Portion] came up to help Lakhish [Invincible]; and Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

³⁴And from Lakhish [Invincible] Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] passed unto ‘Eglon [Calf-like], and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:

³⁵And they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lakhish [Invincible].

³⁶And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] went up from ‘Eglon [Calf-like], and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, unto Hevron [Seat of Association]; and they fought against it:

³⁷And they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that [were] in it; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to ‘Eglon [Calf-like]; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that [were] in it.

³⁸And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] returned, and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, to D’vir [Sanctuary]; and fought against it:

³⁹And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that [were] in it; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hevron [Seat of Association], so he did to D’vir [Sanctuary], and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Livnah [Pavement], and to her king.

⁴⁰So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] struck all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] commanded.

⁴¹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] struck them from Kadesh [Holy] -Barnea [Holy] even unto ‘Azah [The Strong], and all the country of Goshen [Drawing Near], even unto Giv’on [Hill City].

⁴²And all these kings and their land did Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] take at one time, because the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] fought for Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁴³And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] returned, and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] with him, unto the camp to Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling].

¹And it came to pass, when Yavin [Whom God Observes] king of Hatzor [Castle] had heard [those things], that he sent to Yovav [A Desert] king of Madon [Strife], and to the king of Shimron [Watch-Height], and to the king of Akhshaf [I Shall be Bewitched],

²And to the kings that [were] on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Kinn’rot [Harps], and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor [Generation] on the west,

³[And to] the Kena’ani [Merchants] on the east and on the west, and [to] the Emori [Rebellious Highlanders], and the Hitti [Terrorists], and the P’rizi [Villagers], and the Y’vusi [Threshers] in the mountains, and [to] the Hivi [Wicked Villagers] under Hermon [A Sanctuary] in the land of Mitzpah [Watchtower].

⁴And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that [is] upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.

⁵And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom [High Place], to fight against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

⁶And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], Be not afraid because of them: for tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: youi shall hough (hamstring; cut the tendons of the ham) their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

⁷So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom [High Place] suddenly; and they fell upon them.

⁸And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) delivered them into the hand of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], who struck them, and chased them unto great Tzidon [Hunting], and unto Misrefot-Mayim [Burnings of Water], and unto the valley of Mitzpah [Watchtower] eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.

⁹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] did unto them as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) bade him: he hamstringed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

¹⁰And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] at that time turned back, and took Hatzor [Castle], and struck the king thereof with the sword: for Hatzor [Castle] formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.

¹¹And they struck all the souls that [were] in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hatzor [Castle] with fire.

¹²And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] take, and struck them with the edge of the sword, [and] he utterly destroyed them, as Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded.

¹³But [as for] the cities that stood still in their strength, Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] burned none of them, save Hatzor [Castle] only; [that] did Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] burn.

¹⁴And all the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of these cities, and the cattle, the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

¹⁵As the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] his servant, so did Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] command Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and so did Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation]; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

¹⁶So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen [Drawing Near], and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and the valley of the same;

¹⁷[Even] from the mount Halak [Smooth], that goes up to Se’ir [Shaggy], even unto Ba’al-Gad [lord of Fortune] in the valley of L’vanon [Whiteness] under mount Hermon [A Sanctuary]: and all their kings he took, and struck them, and killed them.

¹⁸Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] made war a long time with all those kings.

¹⁹There was not a city that made peace with the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], save the Hivi [Villagers] the inhabitants of Giv’on [Hill City]: all [other] they took in battle.

²⁰For it was of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to harden their hearts, that they should come against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

²¹And at that time came Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and cut off the ‘Anakim [Longed-Necked] from the mountains, from Hevron [Seat of Association], from D’vir [Sanctuary], from ‘Anav [Fruit], and from all the mountains of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and from all the mountains of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] destroyed them utterly with their cities.

²²There was none of the ‘Anakim [Longed-Necked] left in the land of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: only in ‘Azah [The Strong], in Gat [Winepress], and in Ashdod [powerful], there remained.

²³So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] took the whole land, according to all that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters]; and Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] gave it for an inheritance unto Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

¹Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] struck, and possessed their land on the other side Yarden [Descender] toward the rising of the sun, from the river ‘Arnon [Rushing Stream] unto mount Hermon [A Sanctuary], and all the plain on the east:

²Sichon [Warrior] king of the Emori [Highlanders], who dwelt in Heshbon [Stronghold], [and] ruled from ‘Aeo’er [Ruins], which [is] upon the bank of the river ‘Arnon [Rushing Stream], and from the middle of the river, and from half Gil’ad [Rocky Region], even unto the river Yabok [luxuriant emptying river], [which is] the border of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred];

³And from the plain to the sea of Kinn’rot [Harps] on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the east, the way to Beit-Yeshimot [House of the Desolation]; and from the south, under Ashdot-Pisgah [fountain near the mountain cleft (split hoof; an opening, break or split)]:

⁴And the coast of ‘Og [Long-necked] king of Bashan [Fruitful], [which was] of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at ‘Ashtarot [Star (female deity)] and at Edre’i [Good Pasture],

⁵And reigned in mount Hermon [A Sanctuary], and in Salkhah [Migration], and in all Bashan [Fruitful], unto the border of the G’shuri [A Bridge] and the Ma’akhati [She Has Pressed], and half Gil’ad [Rocky Region], the border of Sichon [Warrior] king of Heshbon [Stronghold].

⁶Them did Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] strike: and Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave it [for] a possession unto the Re’uveni [behold, a son!], and the Gadi [my fortune] [A Troop], and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget].

⁷And these [are] the kings of the country which Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] struck on this side Yarden [Descender] on the west, from Ba’al-Gad [lord of Fortune] in the valley of L’vanon [Whiteness] even unto the mount Halak [Smooth], that goes up to Se’ir [Shaggy]; which Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] gave unto the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [for] a possession according to their divisions;

⁸In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hitti [Terrorists], the Emori [Highlanders], and the Kena’ani [Merchant], the P’rizi [Dwellers in Unwalled Towns], the Hivi [Villagers], and the Y’vusi [Threshers, Trampled Under Foot]:

⁹The king of Yericho [Its Moon], one; the king of ‘Ai [Heap of Ruins], which [is] beside Beit-El [House of God], one;

¹⁰The king of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], one; the king of Hevron [Seat of Association], one;

¹¹The king of Yarmut [Heights], one; the king of Lakhish [Invincible], one;

¹²The king of ‘Eglon [Calf-like], one; the king of Gezer [Portion], one;

¹³The king of D’vir [Sanctuary], one; the king of Geder [Wall], one;

¹⁴The king of Hormah [Asylum], one; the king of ‘Arad [A Wild Ass], one;

¹⁵The king of Livnah [Pavement], one; the king of ‘Adulam [Justice of the People], one;

¹⁶The king of Makkedah [Place of Shepherds], one; the king of Beit-El [House of God], one;

¹⁷The king of Tapuach [The Apple City], one; the king of Hefer [A Well], one;

¹⁸The king of Aphek [Enclosure], one; the king of Sharon [a plain] [A Plain], one;

¹⁹The king of Madon [Strife], one; the king of Hatzor [Castle], one;

²⁰The king of Shimron-M’ron [Watch-Height of Meron], one; the king of Akhshaf [I Shall be Bewitched], one;

²¹The king of Ta’anakh [Sandy], one; the king of Megiddo [Place of Crowds], one;

²²The king of Kedesh [Holy Place], one; the king of Yokne’am [The People Lament] of Carmel [Garden-land], one;

²³The king of Dor [Generation] in the coast of Dor [Generation], one; the king of the nations of Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], one;

²⁴The king of Tirtzah [Favourable], one: all the kings thirty and one.

¹Now Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] was old [and] stricken in years; and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto him, youi are old [and] stricken in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.

²This [is] the land that yet remains: all the borders of the P’lishtim [Immigrants], and all G’shuri [Bridge],

³From Shichor [Dark], which [is] before Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], even unto the borders of ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots] northward, [which] is counted to the Kena’ani [Merchants]: five lords of the P’lishtim [Immigrants]; in ‘Azah, and Ashdod [powerful], Ashkelon, Gat, and ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots]; also the ‘Avim [Ruins]:

⁴From the south, all the land of the Kena’ani [Merchant], and Me’arah [Cave] that [is] beside the Tzidonim [Hunting], unto Aphek [Enclosure], to the borders of the Emori [Highlanders]:

⁵And the land of the Givli [A Boundary], and all L’vanon [Whiteness], toward the sunrising, from Ba’al-Gad [lord of Fortune] under mount Hermon [A Sanctuary] unto the entering into Hamat [Fortress].

⁶All the inhabitants of the hill country from L’vanon [Whiteness] unto Misrefot-Mayim [Burnings of Water], [and] all the Tzidonim [Hunting], them will I drive out from before the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: only divide youi it by lot unto the Yisra’eli’s for an inheritance, as I have commanded youi.

⁷Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget],

⁸With whom the Re’uveni [behold, a son!] [Behold a Son] and the Gadi [my fortune] [A Troop] have received their inheritance, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] gave them, beyond Yarden [Descender] eastward, [even] as Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave them;

⁹From ‘Aeo’er [Ruins], that [is] upon the bank of the river ‘Arnon [Rushing Stream], and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Meidva [Water of Rest] unto Divon [Wasting];

¹⁰And all the cities of Sichon [Warrior] king of the Emori [Highlanders], which reigned in Heshbon [Stronghold], unto the border of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred];

¹¹And Gil’ad [Rocky Region], and the border of the G’shuri [A Bridge] and Ma’akhati [She Has Pressed], and all mount Hermon [A Sanctuary], and all Bashan [Fruitful] unto Salkhah [Migration];

¹²All the kingdom of ‘Og [Long-necked] in Bashan [Fruitful], which reigned in ‘Ashtarot [Star (female deity)] and in Edre’i [Good Pasture], who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] strike, and cast them out.

¹³Nevertheless the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] expelled not the G’shuri [A Bridge], nor the Ma’akhati [She Has Pressed]: but the G’shuri [A Bridge] and the Ma’akhati [She Has Pressed] dwell among the Yisra’eli’s until this day.

¹⁴Only unto the tribe of Levi (Levite) [Adhesion, Joiner] he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] made by fire [are] their inheritance, as he said unto them.

¹⁵And Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] gave unto the tribe of the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] [inheritance] according to their families.

¹⁶And their coast was from ‘Aeo’er [Ruins], that [is] on the bank of the river ‘Arnon [Rushing Stream], and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Meidva [Water of Rest];

¹⁷Heshbon [Stronghold], and all her cities that [are] in the plain; Divon [Wasting], and Bamot-Ba’al [high places, or great high place], and Beit-Ba’al-M’on [house of Ba’al],

¹⁸And Yah’zah [trampled down] and K’demot [Eastern], and Mepha’et [Spendour or Height],

¹⁹And Kiryatayim [Two Cities], and Sivnah [Fragrance], and Tzeret-Shachar [Spendour of the Dawn] in the mount of the valley,

²⁰And Beit-P’or [House of the Cleft (split hoof; an opening, break or split)], and Ashdot-Pisgah [fountain near the mountain cleft (split hoof; an opening, break or split)], and Beit-Yeshimot [House of the Desolation],

²¹And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sichon [Warrior] king of the Emori [Highlanders], which reigned in Heshbon [Stronghold], whom Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] struck with the princes of Midyan [Strife], Evi [My Desire], and Rekem [Variegation], and Tzur [Rock], and Hur [Liberty], and Reva [Four], [which were] dukes of Sichon [Warrior], dwelling in the country.

²²Bil’am [Not of the People] also the son of B’or [Burning], the Soothsayer (one who fortells the future by ungodly means), did the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

²³And the border of the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] was Yarden [Descender], and the border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

²⁴And Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] gave [inheritance] unto the tribe of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], [even] unto the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] according to their families.

²⁵And their coast was Ya’zer [Helped], and all the cities of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], and half the land of the children of ‘Amon [Inbred], unto ‘Aeo’er [Ruins] that [is] before Rabbah [Great];

²⁶And from Heshbon [Stronghold] unto Ramot-Mitzpeh [High Place of the Watchtower], and B’tonim [Pistachio Nuts]; and from Machanayim [Two Camps] unto the border of D’vir [Sanctuary];

²⁷And in the valley, Beit-Haram [Place of the Height], and Beit-Nimrah [House of the Leopard], and Sukkot [Booths], and Tzafon [North], the rest of the kingdom of Sichon [Warrior] king of Heshbon [Stronghold], Yarden [Descender] and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Kinneret [Harps] on the other side Yarden [Descender] eastward.

²⁸This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] after their families, the cities, and their villages.

²⁹And Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] gave [inheritance] unto the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget]: and [this] was [the possession] of the half tribe of the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] by their families.

³⁰And their coast was from Machanayim [Two Camps], all Bashan [Fruitful], all the kingdom of ‘Og [Long-necked] king of Bashan [Fruitful], and all the towns of Ya’ir [He Enlightens], which [are] in Bashan [Fruitful], threescore cities:

³¹And half Gil’ad [Rocky Region], and ‘Ashtarot [Star (female deity)], and Edre’i [Good Pasture], cities of the kingdom of ‘Og [Long-necked] in Bashan [Fruitful], [were pertaining] unto the children of Makhir [Sold] the son of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], [even] to the one half of the children of Makhir [Sold] by their families.

³²These [are the countries] which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], on the other side Yarden [Descender], by Yericho [Its Moon], eastward.

³³But unto the tribe of Levi (Levite) [Adhesion, Joiner] Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] gave not [any] inheritance: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [was] their inheritance, as he said unto them.

¹And these [are the countries] which the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] inherited in the land of Kena’an [Merchant], which El’azar [God has helped] the priest, and Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity], and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], distributed for inheritance to them.

²By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], for the nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe.

³For Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Yarden [Descender]: but unto the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] he gave none inheritance among them.

⁴For the children of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add] were two tribes, M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] and Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful]: therefore they gave no part unto the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] in the land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

⁵As the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], so the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] did, and they divided the land.

⁶Then the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] came unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] in Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling]: and Kalev [Dog] the son of Y’funeh [He Will Face] the K’nizi [The Sons of this purchase; this lamentation] said unto him, youi know the thing that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said unto Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the man of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] concerning me and youi in Kadesh [Holy] -Barnea [Holy].

⁷Forty years old [was] I when Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) sent me from Kadesh [Holy] -Barnea [Holy] to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as [it was] in my heart.

⁸Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁹And Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon youi feet have trampled shall be youi inheritance, and youi children’s forever, because youi have wholly followed the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) my God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁰And now, behold, the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke this word unto Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], while [the children of] Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this day eighty and five years old.

¹¹As yet I [am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day that Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.

¹²Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) spoke in that day; for youi heard in that day how the ‘Anakim [Longed-Necked] [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced: if so be the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [will be] with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) said.

¹³And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) him, and gave unto Kalev [Dog] the son of Y’funeh [He Will Face] Hevron [Seat of Association] for an inheritance.

¹⁴Hevron [Seat of Association] therefore became the inheritance of Kalev [Dog] the son of Y’funeh [He Will Face] the K’nizi [The Sons of Kenez this purchase; this lamentation] unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁵And the name of Hevron [Seat of Association] before [was] Kiryat-Arba [City of Arba (four)]; [which Kiryat-Arba [City of Arba (fourth)] was] a great man among the ‘Anakim [Longed-Necked]. And the land had rest from war.

¹[This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] by their families; [even] to the border of Edom [Red] the wilderness of Tzin [Flat] southward [was] the uttermost part of the south coast.

²And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looks southward:

³And it went out to the south side to the Ascent of Scorpions, and passed along to Tzin [Flat], and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh [Holy] -Barnea [Holy], and passed along to Hetzron [surrounded by a wall], and went up to Adar, and went on a circular course (go around, encircle; encompass) to Karka [Floor]:

⁴[From there] it passed toward ‘Atzmon [Strong], and went out unto the river of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast.

⁵And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the end of Yarden [Descender]. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Yarden [Descender]:

⁶And the border went up to Beit-Hoglah [Partidge] [House of the Partidge], and passed along by the north of Beit-’Aravah [House of the Desert Valley/Depression]; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan [Thumb] the son of Re’uven [Behold a Son]:

⁷And the border went up toward D’vir [Sanctuary] from the Valley of Akhor [Trouble], and so northward, looking toward Gilgal [A Wheel, Rolling], that [is] before the going up to Ma’alei-Adumim [Ruddy (reddish hair or complexion) one: Quieted ones?], which [is] on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of ‘Ein-Shemesh [Fountain of the Sun], and the goings out thereof were at ‘Ein-Rogel (a place near Jerusalem) [Fount of the Fuller (washer and/or bleacher of clothes)]:

⁸And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation] unto the south side of the Y’vusi [Threshers]; the same [is] Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that [lies] before the valley of Hinnom [Lamentation] westward, which [is] at the end of the valley of the giants northward:

⁹And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Neftoach [Opening], and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Ba’alah [mistress], which [is] Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests]:

¹⁰And the border compassed from Ba’alah [mistress] westward unto mount Se’ir [Shaggy], and passed along unto the side of Mount Ye’arim [Forests], which [is] K’salon [Hopes], on the north side, and went down to Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun], and passed on to Timnah [Portion]:

¹¹And the border went out unto the side of ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots] northward: and the border was drawn to Shikron [Drunkenness], and passed along to mount Ba’alah [mistress], and went out unto Yavne’el [God Causes to Build]; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

¹²And the west border [was] to the great sea, and the coast [thereof]. This [is] the coast of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] round about according to their families.

¹³And unto Kalev [Dog] the son of Y’funeh [He Will Face] he gave a part among the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], according to the commandment of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], [even] the Kiryat-Arba [City of Arba (fourth)] the father of Anak [Neck], which [city is] Hevron [Seat of Association].

¹⁴And Kalev [Dog] drove there the three sons of Anak [Neck], Sheshai [Noble], and Achiman [My Brother is a Gift], and Talmai [Plowman], the children of Anak [Neck].

¹⁵And he went up there to the inhabitants of D’vir [Sanctuary]: and the name of D’vir [Sanctuary] before [was] Kiryat-Sepher [City of the Book].

¹⁶And Kalev [Dog] said, He that smites Kiryat-Sepher [City of the Book], and takes it, to him will I give ‘Akhsah [Anklet] my daughter to wife.

¹⁷And ‘Otni’el [Lion of God] the son of K’naz [Hunter], the brother of Kalev [Dog], took it: and he gave him ‘Akhsah [Anklet] his daughter to wife.

¹⁸And it came to pass, as she came [unto him], that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off [her] ass; and Kalev [Dog] said unto her, What would youi?

¹⁹Who answered, Give me a blessing; for youi have given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the lower springs.

²⁰This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] according to their families.

²¹And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] toward the coast of Edom [Red] southward were Kavtze’el [God Gathers], and ‘Eder [A Flock], and Yagur [He Sojourns],

²²And Kinah [Lamentation], and Dimonah [River Bed; Silence], and ‘Ad’adah [Festival; Boundary],

²³And Kedesh [Holy Place], and Hatzor [Castle], and Yitnan [Hire],

²⁴Ziv [brightness] [Battlement (low wall around a roof; wall for defense)], and Telem [Oppression], and Be’alot [Mistresses],

²⁵And Hatzor [Castle], Hadatah [New Hatzor (Castle)], and K’riot [Surrounded by a Wall], [and] Hetzron [surrounded by a wall], which [is] Hatzor [Castle],

²⁶Amam [Their Mother], and Sh’ma [Hear], and Moladah [Birth or Race],

²⁷And Hatzar-Gadah [Village of Good Fortune], and Heshmon [Rich Soil], and Beit-Pelet [House of Escape],

²⁸And Hatzar-Shu’al [Jackal Village], and Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath], and Bizyot-Yah [Contempt of Yehovah],

²⁹Ba’alah [mistress], and ‘Ee’yim [Ruins], and ‘Etzem [Bone],

³⁰And El-Tolad [God’s Generations], and K’sil [Foolish], and Hormah [Asylum],

³¹And Ziklag [Winding], and Madmanah [Dunghill], and Sansanah [Palm Branch],

³²And L’va’ot [Witness], and Shilchim [Fountains], and ‘Ayin [Spring], and Rimmon [Pomegranate]: all the cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages:

³³[And] in the valley, Eshta’ol [Entreaty], and Tzor’ah [Hornet], and Ashnah [I will Cause Change],

³⁴And Zanoach [Cast Off], and ‘Ein-Ganim [Fountain of the Garden], Tapuach [The Apple City], and ‘Enam [Double Spring],

³⁵Yarmut [Heights], and ‘Adulam [Justice of the People], Sokhoh [Bushy], and ‘Azekah [Dug Over],

³⁶And Sh’araim [Double Gate], and ‘Aditayim [Double Ornament], and G’derah [Wall], and G’derotayim [Two Walls]; fourteen cities with their villages:

³⁷Tz’nan [Pointed], and Hadashah [New], and Migdal-Gad [Tower of God],

³⁸And Dil’an [Gourd], and Mitzpah [Watchtower], and Yokte’el [The Blessedness of God],

³⁹Lakhish [Invincible], and Bozkat [Rocky Height], and ‘Eglon [Calf-like],

⁴⁰And Kabon [The Builder], and Lachmas [Provisions], and Kitlish [Man’s Wall],

⁴¹And G’derot [Walls], Beit-Dagon [House of the Corn], and Na’amah [Loveliness], and Makkedah [Place of Shepherds]; sixteen cities with their villages:

⁴²Livnah [Pavement], and ‘Eter [Abundant], and ‘Ashan [Smoke],

⁴³And Yiftach [He Opens], and Ashnah [I will Cause Change], and N’tziv [Garrison (fortification; military post) or Pillar],

⁴⁴And Ke’ilah [Fortress], and Achziv [Deceit], and Mareshah [Crest of a Hill]; nine cities with their villages:

⁴⁵‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots], with her towns and her villages:

⁴⁶From ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots] even unto the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod [powerful], with their villages:

⁴⁷Ashdod [powerful] with her towns and her villages, ‘Azah [The Strong] with her towns and her villages, unto the river of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:

⁴⁸And in the mountains, Shamir [A Point or Thorn], and Yatir [Plenty], and Sokhoh [Bushy],

⁴⁹And Danah [You have Judged], and Kiryat-Sanna [City of the Book], which [is] D’vir [Sanctuary],

⁵⁰And ‘Anav [Fruit], and Esht’moh [I Will Make Myself Heard], and ‘Anim [Fountains],

⁵¹And Goshen [Drawing Near], and Holon [Sandy], and Giloh [Exile]; eleven cities with their villages:

⁵²Arav [Ambush], and Dumah [Silence], and Esh’an [Support],

⁵³And Yanum [Asleep], and Beit-Tapuach [House of the Apple], and Aphekah [Enclosure],

⁵⁴And Humtah [Place of Lizards], and Kiryat-Arba [City of Arba (four)], which [is] Hevron [Seat of Association], and Tzi’or [Smallness]; nine cities with their villages:

⁵⁵Ma’on [Habitation], Carmel [Garden-land], and Ziv [brightness] [Battlement (low wall around a roof; wall for defense)], and Yutah [Stretched Out],

⁵⁶And Yizre’el [God Sows], and Yokde’am [Burning of a People], and Zanoach [Cast Off],

⁵⁷Kayin [something produced, spear], Giv’ah [Hill], and Timnah [Portion]; ten cities with their villages:

⁵⁸Halchul [Trembling], Beit’Tzur [House of the Rock], and G’dor [Wall],

⁵⁹And Mar’arat [Bareness], and Beit-’Anot [House of Responses or Afflictions], and Elt’kon [God is Straight]; six cities with their villages:

⁶⁰Kiryat-Ba’al [City of lord], which [is] Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests], and Rabbah [Great]; two cities with their villages:

⁶¹In the wilderness, Beit-’Aravah [House of the Desert Valley/Depression], Middin [Measures], and S’khakhah [Thicket],

⁶²And Nivshan [Soft Soil], and the City of Salt (‘Ir-Hamelach), and ‘Ein-Gedi [Fount of the Kid]; six cities with their villages.

⁶³As for the Y’vusi [Threshers, Trampled Under Foot] the inhabitants of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] could not drive them out: but the Y’vusi [Threshers, Trampled Under Foot] dwell with the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] at Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] unto this day.

¹And the lot of the children of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add] fell from Yarden [Descender] by Yericho [Its Moon], unto the water of Yericho [Its Moon] on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Yericho [Its Moon] throughout mount Beit-El [House of God],

²And goes out from Beit-El [House of God] to Luz [Almond Tree], and passes along unto the borders of Arki [Lengthy] to ‘Atarot [Crowns],

³And goes down westward to the coast of Yafleti [Let Him Escape], unto the coast of Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness] the lower, and to Gezer [Portion]: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.

⁴So the children of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add], M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] and Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], took their inheritance.

⁵And the border of the children of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] according to their families was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was ‘Atrot-Adar [Crowns of Glory], unto Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness] the upper;

⁶And the border went out toward the sea to Mikhm’tat [Hiding Place] on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Ta’anat-Shiloh [Approach to Shiloh], and passed by it on the east to Yanochah [He Rests];

⁷And it went down from Yanochah [He Rests] to ‘Atarot [Crowns], and to Na’arah [Maiden], and came to Yericho [Its Moon], and went out at Yarden [Descender].

⁸The border went out from Tapuach [The Apple City] westward unto the river Kanah [Reed]; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] by their families.

⁹And the separate cities for the children of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [were] among the inheritance of the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], all the cities with their villages.

¹⁰And they drove not out the Kena’ani [Merchant] that dwelt in Gezer [Portion]: but the Kena’ani [Merchant] dwell among the Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] unto this day, and serve under tribute.

¹There was also a lot for the tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget]; for he [was] the firstborn of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add]; [that is to say], for Makhir [Sold] the firstborn of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], the father of Gil’ad [Rocky Region]: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gil’ad [Rocky Region] and Bashan [Fruitful].

²There was also [a lot] for the rest of the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] by their families; for the children of Avi-ezer [My Father is Help], and for the children of Helek [Portion], and for the children of Asri’el [I Shall Be a Prince with God], and for the children of Sh’khem [Shoulder], and for the children of Hefer [A Well], and for the children of Sh’mida [Wise]: these [were] the male children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] the son of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add] by their families.

³But Tz’lof’chad [First-Born], the son of Hefer [A Well], the son of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], the son of Makhir [Sold], the son of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], had no sons, but daughters: and these [are] the names of his daughters, Machlah [Disease], and No’ah [Motion], Hoglah [Partidge], Machlah [Queen], and Tirtzah [Favourable].

⁴And they came near before El’azar [God has helped] the priest, and before Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity], and before the princes, saying, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.

⁵And there fell ten portions to M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], beside the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region] and Bashan [Fruitful], which [were] on the other side Yarden [Descender];

⁶Because the daughters of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget]’s sons had the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region].

⁷And the coast of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] was from Asher [Happy] to Mikhm’tat [Hiding Place], that [lies] before Sh’khem [Shoulder]; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of ‘Ein-Tapuach [Fountain of the Apple-City].

⁸[Now] M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] had the land of Tapuach [The Apple City]: but Tapuach [The Apple City] on the border of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] [belonged] to the children of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful];

⁹And the coast descended unto the river Kanah [Reed], southward of the river: these cities of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] [are] among the cities of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget]: the coast of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] also [was] on the north side of the river, and the extreme limits of it were at the sea:

¹⁰Southward [it was] Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful]’s, and northward [it was] M’nasheh [Causing to Forget]’s, and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher [Happy] on the north, and in Yissakhar [There Is Recompense] on the east.

¹¹And M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] had in Yissakhar [There Is Recompense] and in Asher [Happy] Beit-Sh’an [House of Ease] and her towns, and Yivle’am [Devouring the People] and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor [Generation] and her towns, and the inhabitants of ‘Ein-Dor [spring of dwelling] and her towns, and the inhabitants of Ta’anakh [Sandy] and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo [Place of Crowds] and her towns, [even] three countries.

¹²Yet the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] could not drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but the Kena’ani [Merchant] would dwell in that land.

¹³Yet it came to pass, when the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] were waxen strong, that they put the Kena’ani [Merchant] to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.

¹⁴And the children of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add] spoke unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], saying, Why have youi given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great people, forasmuch as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) me up to this time?

¹⁵And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] answered them, If youi [be] a great people, [then] get youi up to the wood [country], and cut down for yourself there in the land of the P’rizi [Dwellers in Unwalled Towns] and of the giants, if mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] be too narrow for youi.

¹⁶And the children of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add] said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Kena’ani [Merchant] that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, [both they] who [are] of Beit-Sh’an [House of Ease] and her towns, and [they] who [are] of the valley of Yizre’el [God Sows].

¹⁷And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] spoke unto the house of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add], [even] to Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful] and to M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], saying, youi [are] a great people, and have great power: youi shall not have one lot [only]:

¹⁸But the mountain shall be youi; for it [is] a wood, and youi shall cut it down: and the extreme limits of it shall be youi: for youi shall drive out the Kena’ani [Merchant], though they have iron chariots, [and] though they [be] strong.

¹And the whole congregation of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] assembled together at Shiloh [Place of Rest], and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

²And there remained among the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

³And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], How long [are] you2f slack to go to possess the land, which the Yehovah Elohe Avotekhem [The LORD God of your Fathers] has given you?

⁴Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.

⁵And they shall divide it into seven parts: Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add] shall abide in their coasts on the north.

⁶You2f shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring [the description] here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁷But the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] their inheritance: and Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and Re’uven [Behold a Son], and half the tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], have received their inheritance beyond Yarden [Descender] on the east, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave them.

⁸And the men arose, and went away: and Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) in Shiloh [Place of Rest].

⁹And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came [again] to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] to the host at Shiloh [Place of Rest].

¹⁰And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] cast lots for them in Shiloh [Place of Rest] before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): and there Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] divided the land unto the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] according to their divisions.

¹¹And the lot of the tribe of the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] and the children of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add].

¹²And their border on the north side was from Yarden [Descender]; and the border went up to the side of Yericho [Its Moon] on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beit-On [vanity] [house of vanity].

¹³And the border went over from there toward Luz [Almond Tree], to the side of Luz [Almond Tree], which [is] Beit-El [House of God], southward; and the border descended to ‘Atrot-Adar [crowns of glory], near the hill that [lies] on the south side of the lower Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness].

¹⁴And the border was drawn [there], and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [lies] before Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness] southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiryat-Ba’al [City of lord], which [is] Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests], a city of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]: this [was] the west quarter.

¹⁵And the south quarter [was] from the end of Kiryat-Ye’arim [City of Forests], and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Neftoach [Opening]:

¹⁶And the border came down to the end of the mountain that [lies] before the valley of the son of Hinnom [Lamentation], [and] which [is] in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom [Lamentation], to the side of Y’vusi [Descendants of Y’vus (“hard trampled” or “the waterless hill”)] on the south, and descended to ‘Ein-Rogel (a place near Jerusalem) [Fount of the Fuller (washer and/or bleacher of clothes)],

¹⁷And was drawn from the north, and went forth to ‘Ein-Shemesh [Fountain of the Sun], and went forth toward G’lilot [Circuits], which [is] over against the going up of Ma’alei-Adumim [Ruddy (reddish hair or complexion) one: Quieted ones?], and descended to the stone of Bohan [Thumb] the son of Re’uven [Behold a Son],

¹⁸And passed along toward the side over against ‘Aravah [Desert Plain, Wilderness] northward, and went down unto ‘Aravah [Desert Plain, Wilderness]:

¹⁹And the border passed along to the side of Beit-Hoglah [House of the Partidge] northward: and the extreme limits of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of Yarden [Descender]: this [was] the south coast.

²⁰And Yarden [Descender] was the border of it on the east side. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.

²¹Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] according to their families were Yericho [Its Moon], and Beit-Hoglah [House of the Partidge], and the valley of K’tzitz [Cut Off],

²²And Beit-’Aravah [House of the Desert Valley/Depression], and Tz’marayim [Double Fleece of Wool], and Beit-El [House of God],

²³And ‘Avim [Ruins], and Parah [Heifer-Town], and ‘Ofrah [Fawn],

²⁴And K’far-Ha’amonah [Villiage of the Ammonites (the son of my people)], and ‘Ofni [Mouldy], and Geva [Hill]; twelve cities with their villages:

²⁵Giv’on [Hill City], and Ramah [Hill], and B’erot [Wells],

²⁶And Mitzpah [Watchtower], and K’firah [Lioness], and Motzah [Fountain],

²⁷And Rekem [Variegation], and Yirpe’el [God will heal], and Tar’alah [Reeling],

²⁸And Tzela [a rib], Eleph, and Y’vusi [Descendants of Y’vus (“hard trampled” or “the waterless hill”)], which [is] Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], Giv’at [Hill], [and] Kiryat [City]; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the children of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength] according to their families.

¹And the second lot came forth to Shim’on [he who hears], [even] for the tribe of the children of Shim’on [he who hears] according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

²And they had in their inheritance Be’er-sheva [Well of the sevenfold Oath], or Sheva [Seven], and Moladah [Birth or Race],

³And Hatzar-Shu’al [Jackal Village], and Balah [meaning uncertain], and ‘Etzem [Bone],

⁴And El-Tolad [God’s Generations], and B’tul [God Destroys], and Hormah [Asylum],

⁵And Ziklag [Winding], and Beit-Markavot [House of the Chariots], and Hatzar-Susah [Horse Villiage],

⁶And Beit-L’va’ot [House of the Lionesses], and Sharuchen [Refuge of Grace]; thirteen cities and their villages:

⁷‘Ayin [Spring], Rimmon [Pomegranate], and ‘Eter [Abundant], and ‘Ashan [Smoke]; four cities and their villages:

⁸And all the villages that [were] round about these cities to Ba’alat-Be’er [mistress of the well], Ramah [Hill] of the south (Negev). This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Shim’on [he who hears] according to their families.

⁹Out of the portion of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] [was] the inheritance of the children of Shim’on [he who hears]: for the part of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] was too much for them: therefore the children of Shim’on [he who hears] had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

¹⁰And the third lot came up for the children of Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place] according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid [Survivor]:

¹¹And their border went up toward the sea, and Mar’alah [trembling], and reached to Dabeshet [a hill-place], and reached to the river that [is] before Yokne’am [The People Lament];

¹²And turned from Sarid [Survivor] eastward toward the sunrising unto the border of Kislot-Tavor [Flanks of Tabor (Hill)], and then goes out to Dovrat [Word], and goes up to Yafia [Shining],

¹³And from there passes on along on the east to Gat-Hefer [The Winepress of Digging], to ‘Et-Katzin [Time of the Judge], and goes out to Rimmon [greatness; elevation; a pomegranate-tree] to Ne’ah [Shaking];

¹⁴And the border compasses it on the north side to Hanaton [Gracious]: and the extreme limits thereof are in the valley of Yiftach’el [God Opens]:

¹⁵And Katat [Small], and Nahalal [pasture] [Pasture], and Shimron [Watch-Height], and Yid’alah [memorial of God], and Beit-Lechem [House of Bread]: twelve cities with their villages.

¹⁶This [is] the inheritance of the children of Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place] according to their families, these cities with their villages.

¹⁷[And] the fourth lot came out to Yissakhar [There Is Recompense], for the children of Yissakhar [There Is Recompense] according to their families.

¹⁸And their border was toward Yizre’el [God Sows], and K’sulot [flanks], and Shunem [Double Resting Place],

¹⁹And Hafarayim [two pits], and Shi’on [ruin], and Anacharat [the groaning of fear],

²⁰And Rabit [multitude], and Kishyon [meaning unclear], and Evetz [I will make white (or miry)],

²¹And Remet [height], and ‘Ein-Ganim [Fountain of the Garden], and ‘Ein-Hadah [swift fountain], and Beit-Patzetz [house of dispersion];

²²And the coast reaches to Tavor [Mound], and Shachatzimah [toward the heights], and Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun]; and the extreme limits of their border were at Yarden [Descender]: sixteen cities with their villages.

²³This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Yissakhar [There Is Recompense] according to their families, the cities and their villages.

²⁴And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher [Happy] according to their families.

²⁵And their border was Helkat [smooth], and Hali [necklace], and Beten [depression], and Akhshaf [I Shall be Bewitched],

²⁶And Alamelekh [oak of the king], and ‘Am’ad [enduring], and entreaty [entreaty]; and reaches to Carmel [Garden-land] westward, and to Shichor-Livnat [blackness of whiteness];

²⁷And turns toward the sunrising to Beit-Dagon [House of the Corn], and reaches to Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place], and to the valley of Yiftach’el [God Opens] toward the north side of Beit-’Emek [house of the valley], and Ne’i’el [moved by God], and goes out to Kavul [binding] on the left hand,

²⁸And Hevron [Seat of Association], and Rechov [Broad Place], and Hamon [warm springs], and Kanah [Reed], [even] unto great Tzidon [Hunting];

²⁹And [then] the coast turns to Ramah [Hill], and to the fortified city Tzor (Tyre) [a rock]; and the coast turns to Hosah [refuge]; and the extreme limits thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achziv [Deceit]:

³⁰‘Umah [union] also, and Aphek [Enclosure], and Rechov [Broad Place]: twenty and two cities with their villages.

³¹This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher [Happy] according to their families, these cities with their villages.

³²The sixth lot came out to the children of Naftali [My Wrestling], [even] for the children of Naftali [My Wrestling] according to their families.

³³And their coast was from Helef [exchange], from Alon [oak] to Tza’ananim [removings], and Adami-Nekev [man of Adar - cavern], and Yavne’el [God Causes to Build], unto Lakum [fortification]; and the extreme limits thereof were at Yarden [Descender]:

³⁴And [then] the coast turns westward to Aznot-Tavor [peaks of Tabor (mound)], and goes out from there to Hukok [appointed] [appointed], and reaches to Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place] on the south side, and reaches to Asher [Happy] on the west side, and to Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] upon Yarden [Descender] toward the sunrising.

³⁵And the fenced cities [are] Tzidim [the declivities], Tzer [flint], and Hamat [hot spring], Rakat [shore], and Kinneret [Harps],

³⁶And Adamah [the earth], and Ramah [Hill], and Hatzor [Castle],

³⁷And Kedesh [Holy Place], and Edre’i [Good Pasture], and ‘Ein-Hatzor [fountain of Hatzor (enclosed)],

³⁸And Yir’on [fearing], and Midgal-El [tower of God], Horem [sacred], and Beit-’Anat [House of Response (or Affliction)], and Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun]; nineteen cities with their villages.

³⁹This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naftali [My Wrestling] according to their families, the cities and their villages.

⁴⁰[And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan [Judge] according to their families.

⁴¹And the coast of their inheritance was Tzor’ah [Hornet], and Eshta’ol [Entreaty], and ‘Ir-Shemesh [city of the sun-god],

⁴²And Sha’alabin [place of foxes], and Ayalon [Field of Deer], and Yitlah [he hangs],

⁴³And Elon [Mighty], and Timnah [portion], and ‘Ekron [Torn Up by the Roots],

⁴⁴And Elt’keh [let God spue you out], and Gib’ton [mound], and Ba’alat [mistress],

⁴⁵And Y’hud [beauty], and B’nei-Brak [sons of lightning], and Gat-Rimmon [winepress of the pomegranate],

⁴⁶And Yarkon [yellow springs], and Rakon [the temple], with the border before Yafo [beautiful].

⁴⁷And the coast of the children of Dan [Judge] went out [too little] for them: therefore the children of Dan [Judge] went up to fight against Leshem [precious stone], and took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt in it, and called Leshem [precious stone], Dan [Judge], after the name of Dan [Judge] their father.

⁴⁸This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan [Judge] according to their families, these cities with their villages.

⁴⁹When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gave an inheritance to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity] among them:

⁵⁰According to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) they gave him the city which he asked, [even] Timnat-Serach [portion of the sun] in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful]: and he built the city, and dwelt in it.

⁵¹These [are] the inheritances, which El’azar [God has helped] the priest, and Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity], and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh [Place of Rest] before the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.

¹The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) also spoke unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], saying,

²Speak to the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spoke unto you by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters]:

³That the slayer that kills [any] person unawares [and] unwittingly may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

⁴And when he that does flee unto one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

⁵And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he struck his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not formerly.

⁶And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the congregation for judgment, [and] until the death of the High Priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from what place he fled.

⁷And they appointed Kedesh [Holy Place] in Galil [circuit, district] in mount Naftali [My Wrestling], and Sh’khem [Shoulder] in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and Kiryat-Arba [City of Arba (four)], which [is] Hevron [Seat of Association], in the mountain of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].

⁸And on the other side Yarden [Descender] by Yericho [Its Moon] eastward, they assigned Betzer [Remote Fortress] in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and Ramot [Heights] in Gil’ad [Rocky Region] out of the tribe of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and Golan [Their Captivity] in Bashan [Fruitful] out of the tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget].

⁹These were the cities appointed for all the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and for the stranger that sojourns among them, that whosoever kills [any] person at unawares might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

¹Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] unto El’azar [God has helped] the priest, and unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity], and unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God];

²And they spoke unto them at Shiloh [Place of Rest] in the land of Kena’an [Merchant], saying, The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.

³And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gave unto the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), these cities and their suburbs.

⁴And the lot came out for the families of the K’hati [Kohathites]: and the children of Aharon [Bright, Very High] the priest, [which were] of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], had by lot out of the tribe of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and out of the tribe of Shim’on [he who hears], and out of the tribe of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], thirteen cities.

⁵And the rest of the children of K’hat [assembly, congregation] [had] by lot out of the families of the tribe of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], and out of the tribe of Dan [Judge], and out of the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], ten cities.

⁶And the children of Gershon [Exile] [had] by lot out of the families of the tribe of Yissakhar [There Is Recompense], and out of the tribe of Asher [Happy], and out of the tribe of Naftali [My Wrestling], and out of the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] in Bashan [Fruitful], thirteen cities.

⁷The children of M’rari [Bitter] by their families [had] out of the tribe of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and out of the tribe of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and out of the tribe of Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place], twelve cities.

⁸And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gave by lot unto the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

⁹And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], and out of the tribe of the children of Shim’on [he who hears], these cities which are [here] mentioned by name,

¹⁰Which the children of Aharon [Bright, Very High], [being] of the families of the K’hati, [who were] of the children of Levi (Levite) [Adhesion, Joiner], had: for theirs was the first lot.

¹¹And they gave them the city of Kiryat-Arba [City of Arba (fourth)] the father of Anak [Neck], which [city is] Hevron [Seat of Association], in the hill [country] of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], with the suburbs thereof round about it.

¹²But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Kalev [Dog] the son of Y’funeh [He Will Face] for his possession.

¹³Thus they gave to the children of Aharon [Bright, Very High] the priest Hevron [Seat of Association] with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Livnah [Pavement] with her suburbs,

¹⁴And Yatir [Plenty] with her suburbs, and Esht’moa [I will make myself heard] with her suburbs,

¹⁵And Holon [Sandy] with her suburbs, and D’vir [Sanctuary] with her suburbs,

¹⁶And ‘Ayin [Spring] with her suburbs, and Yutah [Stretched Out] with her suburbs, [and] Beit-Shemesh [House of the Sun] with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.

¹⁷And out of the tribe of Binyamin [Son of the Right Hand/Strength], Giv’on [Hill City] with her suburbs, Geva [hill] with her suburbs,

¹⁸‘Anatot [answers to prayer] with her suburbs, and ‘Almon [concealed] with her suburbs; four cities.

¹⁹All the cities of the children of Aharon [Bright, Very High], the priests, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.

²⁰And the families of the children of K’hat [assembly, congregation], the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] which remained of the children of K’hat [assembly, congregation], even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful].

²¹For they gave them Sh’khem [Shoulder] with her suburbs in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer [Portion] with her suburbs,

²²And Kivtzayim [two gatherings] with her suburbs, and Beit-Horon [House of Hollowness] with her suburbs; four cities.

²³And out of the tribe of Dan [Judge], Elt’keh [let God spue you out] with her suburbs, Gib’ton [mound] with her suburbs,

²⁴Ayalon [Field of Deer] with her suburbs, Gat-Rimmon [winepress of the pomegranate] with her suburbs; four cities.

²⁵And out of the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], Ta’nakh [sandy] with her suburbs, and Gat-Rimmon [winepress of the pomegranate] with her suburbs; two cities.

²⁶All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of K’hat [assembly, congregation] that remained.

²⁷And unto the children of Gershon [Exile], of the families of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], out of the [other] half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] [they gave] Golan [Their Captivity] in Bashan [Fruitful] with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and B’esht’rah [with increase] with her suburbs; two cities.

²⁸And out of the tribe of Yissakhar [There Is Recompense], Kishon [Winding] with her suburbs, Dovrat [word] with her suburbs,

²⁹Yarmut [Heights] with her suburbs, ‘Ein-Ganim [Fountain of the Garden] with her suburbs; four cities.

³⁰And out of the tribe of Asher [Happy], entreaty with her suburbs, Avdon [Servile] with her suburbs,

³¹Helkat [smooth] with her suburbs, and Rechov [Broad Place] with her suburbs; four cities.

³²And out of the tribe of Naftali [My Wrestling], Kedesh [Holy Place] in Galil [circuit, district] with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammot-Dor [hot springs of “generation”] with her suburbs, and Kartan [two cities] with her suburbs; three cities.

³³All the cities of the Gershuni [Exiled Ones] according to their families [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.

³⁴And unto the families of the children of M’rari [Bitter], the rest of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], out of the tribe of Z’vulun [Glorious Dwelling Place], Yokne’am [The People Lament] with her suburbs, and Kartah [cities] with her suburbs,

³⁵Dimnah [dunghill] with her suburbs, Nahalal [pasture] with her suburbs; four cities.

³⁶And out of the tribe of Re’uven [Behold a Son], Betzer [Remote Fortress] with her suburbs, and Yah’zah [trampled down] with her suburbs,

³⁷K’demot [Eastern] with her suburbs, and Mepha’et [Spendour or Height] with her suburbs; four cities.

³⁸And out of the tribe of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], Ramot [Heights] in Gil’ad [Rocky Region] with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Machanayim [Two Camps] with her suburbs,

³⁹Heshbon [Stronghold] with her suburbs, Ya’zer [Helped] with her suburbs; four cities in all.

⁴⁰So all the cities for the children of M’rari [Bitter] by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to], were [by] their lot twelve cities.

⁴¹All the cities of the Levi’im (Levites) [Joined to] within the possession of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

⁴²These cities were everyone with their suburbs round about them: thus [were] all these cities.

⁴³And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave unto Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] all the land which he swore to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.

⁴⁴And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) delivered all their enemies into their hand.

⁴⁵There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had spoken unto the house of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; all came to pass.

¹Then Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] called the Re’uveni [behold, a son!], and the Gadi [my fortune] [A Troop], and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget],

²And said unto them, You2f have kept all that Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

³You2f have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

⁴And now the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return you2f, and get you unto your tents, [and] unto the land of your possession, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave you on the other side Yarden [Descender].

⁵But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) charged you, to love the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cling to (hold onto; stick to) him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

⁶So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.

⁷Now to the [one] half of the tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] had given [possession] in Bashan [Fruitful]: but unto the [other] half thereof gave Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] among their brethren on this side Yarden [Descender] westward. And when Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] sent them away also unto their tents, then he Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) them,

⁸And he spoke unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing: divide the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of your enemies with your brethren.

⁹And the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] returned, and departed from the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of Shiloh [Place of Rest], which [is] in the land of Kena’an [Merchant], to go unto the country of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

¹⁰And when they came unto the borders of Yarden [Descender], that [are] in the land of Kena’an [Merchant], the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] built there an altar by Yarden [Descender], a great altar to see to.

¹¹And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] heard say, Behold, the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] have built an altar over against the land of Kena’an [Merchant], in the borders of Yarden [Descender], at the passage of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹²And when the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] heard [of it], the whole congregation of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gathered themselves together at Shiloh [Place of Rest], to go up to war against them.

¹³And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] sent unto the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and to the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and to the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], into the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], Pinchas [mouth of brass] the son of El’azar [God has helped] the priest,

¹⁴And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and each one [was] an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁵And they came unto the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and to the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and to the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], unto the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], and they spoke with them, saying,

¹⁶Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), What trespass [is] this that you2f have committed against the God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], to turn away this day from following the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), in that you2f have built you an altar, that you2f might rebel this day against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)?

¹⁷[Is] the iniquity of P’or [Cleft (split hoof; an opening, break or split)] too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate),

¹⁸But that you2f must turn away this day from following the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? and it will be, [seeing] you2f rebel today against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that tomorrow he will be exceedingly angry with the whole congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

¹⁹Yet, if the land of your possession [be] unclean, [then] pass you2f over unto the land of the possession of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), wherein the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²⁰Did not ‘Akhan [Troubler] the son of Zerach [Rising] commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

²¹Then the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God],

²²God-El [The Powerful Living Word]! God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]! LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-El [The Powerful Living Word]! God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] is LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)! He knows, and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] he shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), don’t save today!

²³That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) himself require [it];

²⁴And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this] thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have you2f to do with the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]?

²⁵For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has made Yarden [Descender] a border between us and you, you2f children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort]; you2f have no part in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁶Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

²⁷But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You2f have no part in the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁸Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should [so] say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say [again], Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you.

²⁹God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] forbid that we should rebel against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and turn this day from following the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] that [is] before his tabernacle.

³⁰And when Pinchas [mouth of brass] the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] which [were] with him, heard the words that the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] spoke, it pleased them.

³¹And Pinchas [mouth of brass] the son of El’azar [God has helped] the priest said unto the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and to the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and to the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], This day we perceive that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] among us, because you2f have not committed this trespass against the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): now you2f have delivered the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of the hand of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

³²And Pinchas [mouth of brass] the son of El’azar [God has helped] the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and from the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], out of the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], unto the land of Kena’an [Merchant], to the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and brought them word again.

³³And the thing pleased the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] dwelt.

³⁴And the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] called the altar [Ed]: for it [shall be] a witness between us that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) had given rest unto Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] from all their enemies round about, that Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] waxed old [and] stricken in age.

²And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] called for all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], [and] for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old [and] stricken in age:

³And you2f have seen all that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] [is] he that has fought for you.

⁴Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Yarden [Descender], with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

⁵And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and you2f shall possess their land, as the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has promised unto you.

⁶Be you2f therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters], that you2f turn not aside from them [to] the right hand or [to] the left;

⁷That you2f come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:

⁸But cling to (hold onto; stick to) the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], as you2f have done unto this day.

⁹For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has driven out from before you great nations and strong: but [as for] you, no man has been able to stand before you unto this day.

¹⁰One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], he [it is] that fights for you, as he has promised you.

¹¹Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that you2f love the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹²Else if you2f do in any wise go back, and cling to (hold onto; stick to) the remnant of these nations, [even] these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

¹³Know for a certainty that the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will no more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you2f perish from off this good land which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has given you.

¹⁴And, behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the earth: and you2f know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] spoke concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing has failed thereof.

¹⁵Therefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] promised you; so shall the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has given you.

¹⁶When you2f have transgressed the covenant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) be kindled against you, and you2f shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given unto you.

¹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] gathered all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] to Sh’khem [Shoulder], and called for the elders of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto all the people, Thus says the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, [even] Terach [station], the father of Avraham [Exalted Father], and the father of Nachor [snorting]: and they served other gods.

³And I took your father Avraham [Exalted Father] from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Kena’an [Merchant], and multiplied his seed, and gave him Yitz’khak [Laughter].

⁴And I gave unto Yitz’khak [Laughter] Ya’akov [Heal of God] and ‘Esav [Hairy]: and I gave unto ‘Esav [Hairy] mount Se’ir [Shaggy], to possess it; but Ya’akov [Heal of God] and his children went down into Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place].

⁵I sent Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] also and Aharon [Bright, Very High], and I plagued Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

⁶And I brought your fathers out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]: and you2f came unto the sea; and the Mitzri pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

⁷And when they cried unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), he put darkness between you and the Mitzri, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]: and you2f dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

⁸And I brought you into the land of the Emori [Highlanders], which dwelt on the other side Yarden [Descender]; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you2f might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

⁹Then Balak [Devastator] the son of Zippor [Sparrow], king of Mo’av [Seed of my Father], arose and warred against Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and sent and called Bil’am [Not of the People] the son of B’or [Burning] to curse you:

¹⁰But I would not hearken unto Bil’am [Not of the People]; therefore he Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

¹¹And you2f went over Yarden [Descender], and came unto Yericho [Its Moon]: and the men of Yericho [Its Moon] fought against you, the Emori [Highlanders], and the P’rizi [Dwellers in Unwalled Towns], and the Kena’ani [Merchant], and the Hitti [Terrorists], and the Girgashi [Dwelling on Clay Soil], the Hivi [Villagers], and the Y’vusi [Threshers, Trampled Under Foot]; and I delivered them into your hand.

¹²And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, [even] the two kings of the Emori [Highlanders]; [but] not with youi sword, nor with youi bow.

¹³And I have given you a land for which you2f did not labour, and cities which you2f built not, and you2f dwell in them; of the vineyards and olive yards which you2f planted not do you2f eat.

¹⁴Now therefore fear the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place]; and serve you2f the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁵And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), choose you this day whom you2f will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Emori [Highlanders], in whose land you2f dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

¹⁶And the people answered and said, God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] forbid that we should forsake the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to serve other gods;

¹⁷For the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], he [it is] that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:

¹⁸And the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) drove out from before us all the people, even the Emori [Highlanders] which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); for he [is] our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

¹⁹And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto the people, You2f cannot serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): for he [is] Elohim K’doshim [A Holy God]; he [is] El Kano [A Jealous God]; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

²⁰If you2f forsake the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he has done you good.

²¹And the people said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], No; but we will serve the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²²And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto the people, You2f [are] witnesses against yourselves that you2f have chosen you the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.

²³Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange gods which [are] among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

²⁴And the people said unto Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

²⁵So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Sh’khem [Shoulder].

²⁶And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] wrote these words in the book of the law of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that [was] by the sanctuary of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

²⁷And Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest you2f deny your God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].

²⁸So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

²⁹And it came to pass after these things, that Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Nun [Posterity], the servant of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), died, [being] an hundred and ten years old.

³⁰And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnat-Serach [portion of the sun], which [is] in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful], on the north side of the hill of Ga’ash [Quaking].

³¹And Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] served the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) all the days of Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and all the days of the elders that overlived Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation], and which had known all the works of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that he had done for Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God].

³²And the bones of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add], which the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] brought up out of Mitzrayim [Egypt - The Narrow Place], buried they in Sh’khem [Shoulder], in a parcel of ground which Ya’akov [Heal of God] bought of the sons of Hamor [male-donkey (ass)] the father of Sh’khem [Shoulder] for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Yosef [(God) He Shall Add].

³³And El’azar [God has helped] the son of Aharon [Bright, Very High] died; and they buried him in a hill [that pertained to] Pinchas [mouth of brass] his son, which was given him in mount Efrayim [Doubly Fruitful].

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