1But the children of Yashar'el (Israel) committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Yahudah (Judah), took of the accursed thing: and the anger of Yahuah (LORD) was kindled against the children of Yashar'el (Israel).
2And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
3And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few.
4So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
5And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
6And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Yahuah (LORD) until the eventide, he and the elders of Yashar'el (Israel), and put dust upon their heads.
7And Joshua said, Alas, O Adonai (Lord) GOD, wherefore have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to Elohim (God) we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
8O Adonai (Lord), what shall I say, when Yashar'el (Israel) turns their backs before their enemies!
9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do unto your great name?
10And Yahuah (LORD) said unto Joshua, Get you up; wherefore lie you thus upon your face?
11Yashar'el (Israel) has sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.
12Therefore the children of Yashar'el (Israel) 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, except you destroy the accursed from among you.
13Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus says Yahuah Elohim (the LORD God) of Yashar'el (Israel), There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Yashar'el (Israel): you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.
14In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Yahuah (LORD) takes shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which Yahuah (LORD) shall take shall come by households; and the household which Yahuah (LORD) shall take shall come man by man.
15And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of Yahuah (LORD), and because he has wrought folly in Yashar'el (Israel).
16So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Yashar'el (Israel) by their tribes; and the tribe of Yahudah (Judah) was taken:
17And he brought the family of Yahudah (Judah); and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
18And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Yahudah (Judah), was taken.
19And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray you, glory to Yahuah Elohim (the LORD God) of Yashar'el (Israel), and make confession unto him; and tell me now what you have done; hide it not from me.
20And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against Yahuah Elohim (the LORD God) of Yashar'el (Israel), and thus and thus have I done:
21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, 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.
22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
23And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Yashar'el (Israel), and laid them out before Yahuah (LORD).
24And Joshua, and all Yashar'el (Israel) with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, 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 unto the valley of Achor.
25And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? Yahuah (LORD) shall trouble you this day. And all Yashar'el (Israel) stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
26And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So Yahuah (LORD) turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.