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 \v 4 So Joshua chose twelve men, one from each tribe. Joshua called them together
-\v 5 and said to them, "Go into the middle of the Jordan riverbed, to the place where the priests are standing and holding the sacred chest that Yahweh, your God, gave you. Each of you must pick up a large stone, one for each tribe, each one carrying a stone on his shoulder—twelve stones for the twelve tribes of the people of Israel.
+\v 5 and said to them, "Go into the middle of the Jordan riverbed, to the place where the priests are standing and holding the sacred chest that Yahweh your God gave you. Each of you must pick up a large stone, one for each tribe, each one carrying a stone on his shoulder—twelve stones for the twelve tribes of the people of Israel.
 
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 \v 6 These stones will be a monument for you to see. In the future, your children will ask, 'What do these stones mean?'
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 \v 10 The priests who carried the chest stood in the middle of the Jordan River until the people had finished crossing the river, as Yahweh had commanded Joshua to tell them to do. This also was as Moses had commanded Joshua to do. The people crossed the river quickly.
-\v 11 As soon as all the people had crossed over, then the sacred chest of Yahweh and the priests who carried it, crossed over. All the people were there watching.
+\v 11 As soon as all the people had crossed over, then the sacred chest of Yahweh and the priests who carried it crossed over. All the people were there watching.
 
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-\v 12 The soldiers of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and of half of the soldiers of the tribe of Manasseh, crossed over ahead of the rest of the Israelite people. As Moses had ordered them to do, they marched in the formation of an army.
+\v 12 The soldiers of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and of half of the soldiers of the tribe of Manasseh crossed over ahead of the rest of the Israelite people. As Moses had ordered them to do, they marched in the formation of an army.
 \v 13 About forty thousand men were marching before Yahweh. These men were armed and prepared for war, and they were heading for the plains of Jericho where they would fight a battle.
 \v 14 On that day, all the people of Israel saw that Yahweh had made Joshua a great leader. And they honored Joshua just as they had honored Moses—all the days of his life.
 
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 \v 17 So Joshua commanded the priests to come up from the river.
-\v 18 Then the priests, carrying the sacret chest containing the Ten Commandments that Yahweh had given to Moses, came up out of the riverbed. And as soon as they walked up out of the riverbed, the water of the Jordan River flowed again, and the river flooded over again, as it had done four days before.
+\v 18 Then the priests, carrying the sacred chest containing the Ten Commandments that Yahweh had given to Moses, came up out of the riverbed. And as soon as they walked up out of the riverbed, the water of the Jordan River flowed again, and the river flooded over again, as it had done four days before.
 
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-\v 19 It was on the tenth day of the first month of that year that the people crossed over the Jordan River and they camped at a place called Gilgal (which is east of the city of Jericho).
+\v 19 It was on the tenth day of the first month of that year that the people crossed over the Jordan River, and they camped at a place called Gilgal (which is east of the city of Jericho).
 \v 20 Joshua set up the large stones at Gilgal.
 \v 21 He said to the people of Israel, "In the future, your descendants will ask, 'Why are these stones here?'
 
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 \v 22 Tell them, 'This is where Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.'
-\v 23 Yahweh, your God, dried up the river for you, until you had all crossed over. Yahweh, the God you worship, did to the Jordan River just as he did to the Sea of Reeds, when he caused it to become dry until we had all crossed over it, just as he did here.
-\v 24 Yahweh did that in order that all the peoples of the earth may know that he is powerful, and so you may forever give him the honor he deserves."
+\v 23 Yahweh your God dried up the river for you until you had all crossed over. Yahweh, the God you worship, did to the Jordan River just as he did to the Sea of Reeds when he caused it to become dry until we had all crossed over it, just as he did here.
+\v 24 Yahweh did that so that all the peoples of the earth may know that he is powerful and so you may forever give him the honor he deserves."
 
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-\v 1 All the kings of the Amorites on the west of the Jordan River and all the kings of Canaanites, who lived close to the Mediterranean coast, heard about how Yahweh had dried up the water of the Jordan River until all the people of Israel had crossed over. They were so afraid that they became too afraid to fight the Israelites, because they had heard all about them.
+\v 1 All the kings of the Amorites on the west of the Jordan River and all the kings of Canaanites, who lived close to the Mediterranean coast, heard about how Yahweh had dried up the water of the Jordan River until all the people of Israel had crossed over. They were so afraid that they became too afraid to fight the Israelites because they had heard all about them.
 
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-\v 2 At that timeYahweh said to Joshua, "Now make knives from flint stones and circumcise all the Israelite males who have not been circumcised."
+\v 2 At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, "Now make knives from flint stones and circumcise all the Israelite males who have not been circumcised."
 \v 3 So Joshua made sharp stone knives and circumcised the Israelite males at a place that is now called Gibeath Haaraloth.
 
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-\v 4 The reason they did that is that all the men who left Egypt, all those old enough to be soldiers, they all had been circumcised, but all of them had died in the desert after they left Egypt.
-\v 5 They had been circumcised in Egypt, but the boys who had been born while they were in the desert after they left Egypt, had not been circumcised.
+\v 4 The reason they did that is that all the men who left Egypt—all those old enough to be soldiers—had been circumcised, but all of them had died in the desert after they left Egypt.
+\v 5 They had been circumcised in Egypt, but the boys who had been born while they were in the desert after they left Egypt had not been circumcised.
 
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-\v 6 The people of Israel walked through the desert for forty years, until all the people, including all the men who were old enough to be soldiers, they all had died. They had not obeyed Yahweh, so Yahweh said that they would not see the land that he had promised to them—a land that was very fertile—the land was so fertile that they said it had milk and honey flowing through it, just as rivers flow with water.
+\v 6 The people of Israel walked through the desert for forty years until all the people, including all the men who were old enough to be soldiers, had died. They had not obeyed Yahweh, so Yahweh said that they would not see the land that he had promised to them—a land that was very fertile—the land was so fertile that they said it had milk and honey flowing through it, just as rivers flow with water.
 \v 7 It was the children of those who had died that Yahweh raised up in their place. He circumcised them because they had not been circumcised when they were walking through the wilderness.
 
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-\v 1 Now every gate of the city of Jericho was shut tight, because the people were afraid of the army of Israel. No one could go enter or leave the city.
+\v 1 Now every gate of the city of Jericho was shut tight because the people were afraid of the army of Israel. No one could enter or leave the city.
 \v 2 Yahweh said to Joshua, "See what I am doing! I am giving Jericho to you. It will be yours—the city along with its king and all its brave soldiers.
 
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-\v 6 So Joshua summoned the priests and said to them, "Tell four priests to carry Yahweh's sacred chest, and tell the priests to carry seven trumpets made from ram's horns and let them go in front of the sacred chest of Yahweh."
+\v 6 So Joshua summoned the priests and said to them, "Tell four priests to carry Yahweh's sacred chest, and tell the priests to carry seven trumpets made from ram's horns, and let them go in front of the sacred chest of Yahweh."
 \v 7 And he told the people, "Go on and march around the city and let the armed men go ahead of Yahweh's sacred chest."
 
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-\v 8 Just as Joshua commanded his army, the seven priests, each one carrying a trumpet, marched as Yahweh had directed them. As they walked around the city, the priests gave a blast on their trumpets. The ones who carried Yahweh's sacred chest followed them.
+\v 8 Just as Joshua commanded his army, the seven priests—each one carrying a trumpet—marched as Yahweh had directed them. As they walked around the city, the priests gave a blast on their trumpets. The ones who carried Yahweh's sacred chest followed them.
 \v 9 The armed soldiers marched in front of the priests who were blowing on their trumpets. When the rest of the soldiers followed the chest, while they were all marching, the priests kept blowing their trumpets.
 
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-\v 10 But the rest of the people were silent, because Joshua had commanded them, saying, "Do not make a war cry. Do not yell or say even one word until the day when I tell you to shout. On that day, you must shout!"
+\v 10 But the rest of the people were silent because Joshua had commanded them, saying, "Do not make a war cry. Do not yell or say even one word until the day when I tell you to shout. On that day, you must shout!"
 \v 11 So the men carrying Yahweh's sacred chest and all the others did what Joshua told them to do. They marched around the city once each day. Then they all returned to the camp and stayed there at night.
 
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 \v 15 On the seventh day, they got up at dawn; they all marched around the city the same way that they had done before, but this time they marched around the city seven times.
-\v 16 As they were marching around the seventh time, when the priests were about to sound the long blast on their trumpets, Joshua commanded the people, "Shout! Because Yahweh is giving this city to you!
+\v 16 As they were marching around the seventh time, when the priests were about to sound the long blast on their trumpets, Joshua commanded the people, "Shout! because Yahweh is giving this city to you!
 
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 \v 17 Yahweh has declared that you must destroy the city and everything in it to show that it belongs to him. Only Rahab the prostitute will live—and all who are in her house with her—because she hid the spies we sent.
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 \v 24 Then they burned the city, along with everything in it. They saved the silver, gold, and all the vessels of bronze and iron, which they put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh.
 
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-\v 25 But Joshua allowed Rahab the prostitute, and her father's household, and everyone with her, to live. Her descendants live in Israel to this day because she hid the spies that Joshua sent to spy on Jericho, and they promised to spare her life.
+\v 25 But Joshua allowed Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and everyone with her to live. Her descendants live in Israel to this day because she hid the spies that Joshua sent to spy on Jericho, and they promised to spare her life.
 
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