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-\v 1 After Moses the servant of Yahweh, died, Yahweh said this to Nun's son Joshua, who had been Moses's servant leader:
+\v 1 After Moses the servant of Yahweh died, Yahweh said this to Nun's son Joshua, who had been Moses's servant leader:
 \v 2 "You know that my servant Moses is now dead. So now get ready to cross over the Jordan River, you and all these people. Enter the land that I will soon give to the people of Israel.
-\v 3 Everywhere you walk in this land, I will give to you, as I promised Moses.
+\v 3 Everywhere you walk in this land I will give to you, as I promised Moses.
 
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 \v 4 That land will extend from the wilderness in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the northwest, to the Euphrates River, and to the Mediterranean Sea on the west. It will include all the land where the Hittites live.
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 \v 7 Just be strong and very brave. Be sure to obey all the laws that my servant Moses taught you; carry out each one of them. If you do so, you will be successful wherever you go.
 
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-\v 8 Talk with each other about the book of the law that Moses taught you. Think about those laws during the day and during the night. Follow the laws and do what they tell you to do, and they teach you to live so you may gain wealth and be successful.
+\v 8 Talk with each other about the book of the law that Moses taught you. Think about those laws during the day and during the night. Follow the laws and do what they tell you to do, and they will teach you how to live so you may gain wealth and be successful.
 \v 9 Do not forget that I have commanded you to be strong and brave. Do not be afraid and do not be discouraged. I, Yahweh your God, will be with you wherever you go."
 
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 \v 10 Then Joshua commanded the leaders of the people of Israel,
-\v 11 "Go throughout the camp and give these orders to the people: 'Prepare all the food that you will take with you. In three days you will go across the Jordan River in front of you, and you will go in and capture the land that Yahweh, your God, is about to give to you.'"
+\v 11 "Go throughout the camp and give these orders to the people: 'Prepare all the food that you will take with you. In three days you will go across the Jordan River in front of you, and you will go in and capture the land that Yahweh your God is about to give to you.'"
 
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-\v 12 Then Joshua spoke to the families of the descendants of Reuben and Gad, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh that was going to settle on the east side of the Jordan River:
-\v 13 "Keep in mind the orders that Moses the servant of Yahweh, gave you. Moses said, 'Yahweh, your God, has promised to give you a place where you can settle down permanently—this place will be the land where you will live.
+\v 12 Then Joshua spoke to the families of the descendants of Reuben and Gad and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh that was going to settle on the east side of the Jordan River:
+\v 13 "Keep in mind the orders that Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you. Moses said, 'Yahweh your God has promised to give you a place where you can settle down permanently—this place will be the land where you will live.
 
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-\v 14 Your wives, your little children, and your livestock may stay here in this land on the east side of the Jordan River, but all your soldiers and your fellow tribesmen must cross the river, ahead of your other fellow Israelites, in order to help them.
+\v 14 Your wives, your little children, and your livestock may stay here in this land on the east side of the Jordan River, but all of your soldiers and your fellow tribesmen must cross the river, ahead of your other fellow Israelites, in order to help them.
 \v 15 You must help them in battle until Yahweh has enabled your fellow Israelites to permanently settle in the land there, the land that they will capture, the land that Yahweh your God is giving to them. Then each of you will come back to the land that you will settle in, and you will live there—I mean the land that Moses, Yahweh's servant, gave you here on the east side of the Jordan River."
 
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-\v 1 Then Joshua chose two men from their camp at Acacia. He told them, "Go find out all that you can about the land, especially about Jericho." They left the camp, and they came to Jericho, to the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab. They stayed there.
+\v 1 Then Joshua chose two men from their camp at Acacia. He told them, "Go and find out all that you can about the land, especially about Jericho." They left the camp, and they came to Jericho, to the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab. They stayed there.
 \v 2 Someone told the king of Jericho, "Look! Some Israelite men have come here tonight to look at our land!"
 \v 3 So the king sent a messenger to tell Rahab, "Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, because they have come here to look at our land!"
 
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 \v 5 They left when it was dark, about the time that the guards close the city gates. I do not know where they were going. If you hurry, you might catch up with them."
 
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-\v 6 But in reality, the woman had taken the two men up on to the flat roof of her house and hidden them under bundles of flax that were drying on her roof.
+\v 6 But in reality, the woman had taken the two men up onto the flat roof of her house and hidden them under bundles of flax that were drying on her roof.
 \v 7 The king's men went out of the city to search for them on the road that leads to the fords across the Jordan River. The guards shut the city gates as the king's men went out.
 
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 \v 13 and that you will spare the lives of my father and my mother, my brothers and sisters, and all of their families, and that you will rescue my family when the Israelites destroy this city."
 
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-\v 14 The two men replied, "We will give up our lives if we do not do as we say! If you do not tell others what we are planning to do, then we will have to act kindly toward all your family, when Yahweh gives us this land."
+\v 14 The two men replied, "We will give up our lives if we do not do as we say! If you do not tell others what we are planning to do, then we will have to act kindly toward all of your family when Yahweh gives us this land."
 
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-\v 15 One of the outside walls of the house where Rahab lived was part of the wall of the city. She fastened a rope through a window that was built into the wall, so the men could climb out the window and down the wall.
+\v 15 One of the outside walls of the house where Rahab lived was part of the wall of the city. She fastened a rope through a window that was built into the wall so the men could climb out the window and down the wall.
 \v 16 Then she said to them, "When you leave the city, go up into the hills so that the men who are searching for you will not find you. Hide in caves in the hills for three days until the men who are searching for you come back. Then you can return to your camp."
-\v 17 The two men gave her a red cord and said to her, "This is what you must do, if you do not do this, we will not be required to do what we have solemnly promised.
+\v 17 The two men gave her a red cord and said to her, "This is what you must do; if you do not do this, we will not be required to do what we have solemnly promised.
 
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-\v 18 You must tie this red cord in the window by which you let us down, and you must gather together your father and your mother and your brothers, and everyone in your father's household.
-\v 19 If anyone in your family goes outside this house into the street, he will be risking his life, and we will not be responsible if he is killed. But if anyone who is in this house with you is injured, we will be guilty.
+\v 18 You must tie this red cord in the window by which you let us down, and you must gather together your father and your mother and your brothers and everyone in your father's household.
+\v 19 If anyone in your family goes outside of this house into the street, he will be risking his life, and we will not be responsible if he is killed. But if anyone who is in this house with you is injured, we will be guilty.
 
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 \v 20 Also, if you tell anyone what we are planning to do, we are not required to do what we had promised to do for you and your family."
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 \v 22 When the two men left the city, they went up into the hills. They stayed there for three days while the men who had been sent by the king continued to search for them. They searched all along the road, but they did not find the two men.
 
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-\v 23 Then the two men started back toward their camp. They went down to the river, crossed it and returned so they could report to Joshua. They told him everything that had happened to them.
+\v 23 Then the two men started back toward their camp. They went down to the river, crossed it, and returned so they could report to Joshua. They told him everything that had happened to them.
 \v 24 They said to Joshua, "Yahweh has indeed given this land to us. The people there will not be able to resist us because they are too afraid."
 
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 \v 8 Tell the priests who are carrying the sacred chest, 'When you come to the edge of the Jordan River, stand still in the Jordan.'"
 
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-\v 9 Then Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here and listen to what Yahweh, your God, has said.
+\v 9 Then Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here and listen to what Yahweh your God has said.
 \v 10 This is how you will know that God, who can do anything, is among you. With your own eyes you will see how he will take away the land from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
-\v 11 See! The sacred chest that belongs to the God who rules over all the earth, is about to be carried into the Jordan River ahead of you.
+\v 11 See! The sacred chest that belongs to the God who rules over all the earth is about to be carried into the Jordan River ahead of you.
 
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 \v 12 So choose twelve men, one from each of the tribes of Israel.
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-\v 14 So when the Israelite crossed the river, the priests who were carrying sacred chest went in front of them.
-\v 15 And as soon as the priests reached the edge of the Jordan river and stepped into the water (now it was the springtime, when the river floods over its banks),
-\v 16 and the water stopped flowing and it piled up far upstream. The water did not flow in the Jordan from the town called Adam, near Zarethan, all the way down to the Sea of Arabah (which is called the Dead Sea), so the people were able to cross the river near Jericho.
+\v 14 So when the Israelites crossed the river, the priests who were carrying sacred chest went in front of them.
+\v 15 And as soon as the priests reached the edge of the Jordan River and stepped into the water (now it was the springtime, when the river floods over its banks),
+\v 16 the water stopped flowing and it piled up far upstream. The water did not flow in the Jordan from the town called Adam, near Zarethan, all the way down to the Sea of Arabah (which is called the Dead Sea), so the people were able to cross the river near Jericho.
 
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 \v 17 The priests who were carrying the sacred chest of Yahweh stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan River; they continued to stand there until all the people of Israel crossed the river on dry ground.