which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us,
a land flowing with milk and honey.
005:007 Their children, whom he raised up in their place,
were circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised,
because they had not circumcised them on the way.
005:008 It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation,
that they stayed in their places in the camp until
they were healed.
005:009 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach
of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that place
was called Gilgal,{"Gilgal" sounds like the Hebrew for "roll."
} to this day.
005:010 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept
the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening
in the plains of Jericho.
005:011 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce
of the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
005:012 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce
of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any more;
but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
005:013 It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up
his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him
with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him,
and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
005:014 He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's army."
Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped,
and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
005:015 The prince of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take your shoes
off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy."
Joshua did so.
006:001 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel.
No one went out, and no one came in.
006:002 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand,
with its king and the mighty men of valor.
006:003 All your men of war shall march around the city, going around
the city once. You shall do this six days.
006:004 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before
the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city
seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
006:005 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn,
and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people
shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city
shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man
straight before him."
006:006 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them,
"Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear
seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh."
006:007 They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city,