¹ And Jehovah spoke to^▵ Moses, saying,

² Command the sons of Israel that they take to^▵ thee pure^▵ olive oil, beaten for the light, to cause the flame of the lamp to go·​·up^* continually.

³ Outside the veil of the testimony, in the Tabernacle of the congregation^◦, shall Aaron arrange it from the evening to^◦ the morning before Jehovah continually; it shall be an eternal statute to your generations.

⁴ He shall arrange the lamps upon the pure^◦* lampstand before Jehovah continually.

⁵ And thou shalt take flour, and bake it, twelve cakes, two tenths shall be one cake.

⁶ And thou shalt set them in two arrays, six in an array, upon a clean table before Jehovah.

⁷ And thou shalt put^◦ pure^▵ frankincense on each array, and it shall be on the bread for a memorial, even a fire·​·offering to Jehovah.

⁸ In the day of the Sabbath, in the day of the Sabbath, he shall arrange it before Jehovah continually, being taken from the sons of Israel by an eternal covenant.

⁹ And it shall be Aaron’s and his sons’; and they shall eat it in the holy place; for it^◦ is a holy of holies to him of the fire·​·offerings of Jehovah by an eternal statute.

¹⁰ And the son of a woman, an Israelitess, and he^◦ was the son of an Egyptian^◦ man^◦, went·​·out in the midst of the sons of Israel; and the son of the Israelitess and an Israelite man^◦ quarreled in the camp;

¹¹ and the son of the woman, the Israelitess, cursed^▵ the name, and reviled it. And they brought him to^▵ Moses; and the name of his mother was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of^◦ the tribe of Dan,

¹² and they placed him under guard, that the mouth of Jehovah might be made·​·clear to them^◦.

¹³ And Jehovah spoke to^▵ Moses, saying,

¹⁴ Bring·​·out the reviling one to^▵ outside the camp; and let all that heard lay^◦ their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone^▵ him.

¹⁵ And to^▵ the sons of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, A man^◦, a man^◦ that reviles his God shall bear his sin.

¹⁶ And he who curses^▵ the name of Jehovah, dying he shall be made to die; all the congregation stoning^▵ shall stone^▵ him; as the sojourner, as the native, when he curses^▵ the name, he shall be made to die.

¹⁷ And a man^◦ when^◦ he smites any soul of man, dying he shall be·​·put·​·to·​·death.

¹⁸ And he who smites the soul of a beast shall repay it, a soul in·​·return·​·for a soul.

¹⁹ And if^▫ a man^◦ put^◦ a blemish on^◦ his fellow·​·man; as^◦ he has done, so shall it be done to him;

²⁰ breaking in·​·return·​·for breaking, eye in·​·return·​·for eye, tooth in·​·return·​·for tooth; as^◦ he has put^◦ a blemish on the man, so shall it be put^◦ on^◦ him.

²¹ And he who smites a beast, he shall repay it; and he who smites man^*, he shall be put·​·to·​·death.

²² You shall have^◦ one judgment, for^◦ the sojourner, as for^◦ the native born; for I^◦ am Jehovah your God.

²³ And Moses spoke to^▵ the sons of Israel, that they should bring·​·out the reviling one to^▵ outside the camp, and stone^▵ him with stones. And the sons of Israel did as^◦ Jehovah commanded Moses.

¹ But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh's anger burned against the children of Israel.

² Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.

³ They returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don't make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them."

⁴ So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.

⁵ The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

⁶ Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

⁷ Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

⁸ Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

⁹ For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

¹⁰ Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you fallen on your face like that?

¹¹ Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

¹² Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

¹³ "Get up! Sanctify the people, and say, 'Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, "There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you."

¹⁴ "'In the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes. It shall be that the tribe which Yahweh selects shall come near by families. The family which Yahweh selects shall come near by households. The household which Yahweh selects shall come near man by man.

¹⁵ It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.'"

¹⁶ So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel near by their tribes. The tribe of Judah was selected.

¹⁷ He brought near the family of Judah; and he selected the family of the Zerahites. He brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man, and Zabdi was selected.

¹⁸ He brought near his household man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.

¹⁹ Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"

²⁰ Achan answered Joshua, and said, "I have truly sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done.

²¹ When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."

²² So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

²³ They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh.

²⁴ Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.

²⁵ Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

²⁶ They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.