It is not with you alone that I am making this covenant by oath,

You have seen their detestable things and idols of wood, stone, silver, and gold.)

“Look! I have set before you today life and prosperity on the one hand, and death and disaster on the other.

Then Moses went and spoke these words to all Israel.

When Moses finished writing on a scroll the words of this law in their entirety,

he commanded the Levites who carried the ark of the Lord’s covenant,

Then Moses recited the words of this song from start to finish in the hearing of the whole assembly of Israel.

When Moses finished reciting all these words to all Israel

This is the blessing Moses the man of God pronounced upon the Israelites before his death.

If you should report what we’ve been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

She said, “I agree to these conditions.” She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.

Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!”

“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

And he told the army, “Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.

Bright and early the next morning Joshua made Israel approach in tribal order and the tribe of Judah was selected.

Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

When the residents of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and Ai,