These are the land assignments made by Moses on the plains of Moab east of the Jordan River opposite Jericho.

“El, God, the Lord! El, God, the Lord! He knows the truth! Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the Lord, don’t spare us today!

Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered the army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched at the head of it to Ai.

These cities were located at the southern extremity of Judah’s tribal land near the border of Edom: Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,

He told the Israelites, “When your children someday ask their fathers, ‘What do these stones represent?’

When Joshua was very old, the Lord told him, “You are very old, and a great deal of land remains to be conquered.

Bright and early the next morning Joshua had the priests pick up the ark of the Lord.

The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday, ‘Why are these stones important to you?’

That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.

The Lord was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land.

When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had chased them toward the desert (they all fell by the sword), all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it.

Then Joshua built an altar for the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebal,

Bright and early the next morning Joshua and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan. They camped there before crossing the river.

Now all the men who left were circumcised, but all the sons born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised.

He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword – no one who breathed remained – and burned Hazor.

But as for you, map out the land into seven regions and bring it to me. I will draw lots for you here before the Lord our God.

When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.”

“Go through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to you.’”

So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside the Israelite camp.