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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. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>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? <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>There went up therefore three thou- sand fighting men: who immediately turned their backs, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>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. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies? <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>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? </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground? <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>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. </p> <p class="hdg">The Sin of Achan</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made Israel to come by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was found, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>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. </p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent, found all hidden in the same place, together with the silver. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/7-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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. 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