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chapter 7
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the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and took to their own use
of the anathema. For Achan the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare
of the tribe of Juda, took something of the anathema: and the Lord was angry
against the children of Israel.
2 And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai,
which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said to
them: Go up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his command, and viewed
Hai.
3 And returning they said to him: Let not all the
people go up, but let two or three thousand men go and destroy the city: why
should all the people be troubled in vain against enemies that are very few?
4 There went up therefore three thou- sand fighting
men: who immediately turned their backs,
5 And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and
there fell of them six and thirty men : and the enemies pursued them from the gate
as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the
heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.
6 But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the
ground before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and all the
ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.
7 And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou
bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the
Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God, we had stayed beyond the Jordan as we
began.
8 My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning
their backs to their enemies?
9 The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land
will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us and cut off our
name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?
10 And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou
flat on the ground?
11 Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant:
and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hidden
it among their goods.
12 Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he
shall flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be no
more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this wickedness.
13 Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye
sanctified against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel: The
anathema is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy
enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee that is defiled with this wickedness.
14 And you shall come in the morning every one by your
tribes: and what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by its kindreds
and the kindred by its houses, and the house by the men.
15 And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of
this fact, he shall be burnt with fire with all his substance, because he hath
transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done wickedness in Israel.
16 Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made
Israel to come by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found,
17 Which being brought by its families, it was found to
be the family of Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it to be
Zabdi.
18 And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan
the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda.
19 And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the
Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not.
20 And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I
have sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.
21 For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment
exceeding good, and two hundred sides of silver, and a golden rule of fifty
sides: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in the ground is
the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with the earth that I dug up.
22 Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his
tent, found all hidden in the same place, together with the silver.
23 And taking them away out of the tent, they brought
them to Josue, and to all the children of Israel, and threw them down before
the Lord.
24 Then Josue and all Israel with him took Achan the
son of Zare, and the silver and the garments, and the golden rule, his sons
also and his daughters, his oxen and asses and sheep, the tent also, and all
the goods: and brought them to the valley of Achor:
25 Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the
Lord trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were
his, were consumed with fire.
26 And they gathered together upon him a great heap of
stones, which remaineth until this present day. And the wrath of the Lord was
turned away from them. And the name of that place was called the Valley of
Achor, until this day.
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