<p class="bodytext">From the Israelites: from the descendants of Parosh: Ramiah, Izziah, Malkijah, Mijamin, Eleazar, Malkijah, and Benaiah.p>

<p class="bodytext">From the descendants of Hashum: Mattenai, Mattattah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.p>

<p class="bodytext">From the descendants of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jaddai, Joel, and Benaiah.p>

<p class="bodytext">The Levites were as follows:p> <p class="bodytext">Jeshua<n id="1" /> son of Azaniah, Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel.p>

<p class="bodytext">Pethahiah son of Meshezabel, one of the descendants of Zerah son of Judah, was an adviser to the king<n id="1" /> in every matter pertaining to the people.p>

<p class="poetry">You are the most handsome of all men!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You speak in an impressive and fitting manner!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">For this reason<n id="3" /> God grants you continual blessings.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">(just as many were horrified by the sight of you)<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he was so disfigured<n id="2" /> he no longer looked like a man;<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The king commanded<n id="1" /> Ashpenaz,<n id="2" /> who was in charge of his court officials,<n id="3" /> to choose<n id="4" /> some of the Israelites who were of royal and noble descent<n id="5" /> &#8211;

The one from Aaron&#8217;s sons who presents the blood of the peace offering and fat will have the right thigh as his share,

Also you may buy slaves<n id="1" /> from the children of the foreigners who reside with you, and from their families that are<n id="2" /> with you, whom they have fathered in your land, they may become your property.

&#8220;Look,<n id="1" /> I myself have taken the Levites from among the Israelites instead of<n id="2" /> every firstborn who opens the womb among the Israelites. So the Levites belong to me,

and rebelled against Moses, along with some of the Israelites, 250 leaders<n id="1" /> of the community, chosen from the assembly,<n id="2" /> famous men.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">If a man is found kidnapping a person from among his fellow Israelites,<n id="1" /> and regards him as mere property<n id="2" /> and sells him, that kidnapper<n id="3" /> must die. In this way you will purge<n id="4" /> evil from among you.p>

The king of Jericho received this report: &#8220;Note well!<n id="1" /> Israelite men have come here tonight<n id="2" /> to spy on the land.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one per tribe.

Now Heber the Kenite had moved away<n id="1" /> from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab, Moses&#8217; father-in-law. He lived<n id="2" /> near the great tree in Zaanannim near Kedesh.p>

then whoever is the first to come through<n id="1" /> the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites &#8211; he<n id="2" /> will belong to the <sc>Lordsc> and<n id="3" /> I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.&#8221;

But his master said to him, &#8220;We should not stop at a foreign city where non-Israelites live.<n id="1" /> We will travel on to Gibeah.&#8221;

He had a son named Saul, a handsome young man. There was no one among the Israelites more handsome than he was; he stood head and shoulders above all the people.p>

Now several non-Israelite peoples were left in the land after the conquest of Joshua, including the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.<n id="1" />