But the children of Yisra᾽el committed a trespass in regard to the devoted property: for ῾Akhan, the son of Karmi the son of Zavdi, the son of Zeraĥ, of the tribe of Yehuda, took of the devoted things: and the anger of the Lord burned against the children of Yisra᾽el.

And Yehoshua sent men from Yeriĥo to ῾Ay which is beside Bet-aven, on the east side of Bet-el, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the country. And the men went up and spied out ῾Ay.

And they returned to Yehoshua, and said to him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite ῾Ay; and do not weary all the people to go there; for they are but few.

So there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of ῾Ay.

And the men of ῾Ay smote of them about thirty six men: for they chased them from before the gate as far as Shevarim, and smote them at the descent: and the hearts of the people melted, and became like water.

And Yehoshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until evening, he and the elders of Yisra᾽el, and put dust upon their heads.

And Yehoshua said, Alas, O Lord God, why didst Thou bring this people over the Yarden, to deliver us into the hand of the Emori, to destroy us? would we had been content, and had remained on the other side of the Yarden!

O Lord, what shall I say, when Yisra᾽el has turned his back before his enemies!

For the Kena῾ani and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?

And the Lord said to Yehoshua, Get up; why dost thou lie thus upon thy face?

Yisra᾽el has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have taken of the devoted property, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it among their own goods.

Therefore the children of Yisra᾽el could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

Rise up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves for to morrow: for thus says the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, There is devoted property in the midst of thee, O Yisra᾽el: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.

In the morning therefore you shall come near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord picks shall come near according to its families; and the family which the Lord picks shall come near by households; and the household which the Lord picks shall come near man by man.

And it shall be, that he that is seized with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has committed a scandalous thing in Yisra᾽el.

So Yehoshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Yisra᾽el by their tribes; and the tribe of Yehuda was picked:

and he brought near the family of Yehuda; and he took the family of the Zarĥi: and he brought the family of the Zarĥi man by man; and Zavdi was picked:

and he brought his household man by man; and ῾Akhan, the son of Karmi, the son of Zavdi, the son of Zeraĥ, of the tribe of Yehuda, was picked.

And Yehoshua said to ῾Akhan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, and make confession to him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

And ῾Akhan answered Yehoshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Yisra᾽el, and thus and thus have I done:

when I saw among the spoil a goodly mantle of Shin῾ar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

So Yehoshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them to Yehoshua, and to all the children of Yisra᾽el, and laid them out before the Lord.

And Yehoshua, and all Yisra᾽el with him, took ῾Akhan the son of Zeraĥ, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them to the valley of ῾Akhor.

And Yehoshua said, Why hast thou brought trouble on us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Yisra᾽el stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of ῾Akhor, to this very day.