1. And Josue gave orders, saying: Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth to me the five kings that lie hid therein.

2. And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also.

3. And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

4. And Josue returned with all Israel into the camp of Galgal.

5. And Josue came, and all the army with him, against them to the waters of Merom on a sudden, and fell upon them.

6. And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither and hear the word of the Lord your God.

7. After the death of Josue the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

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8. Josue enters the land of promise, after being assured by spies that the way is safe.

9. And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children of Israel, one out of every tribe.

10. At that time Josue came and cut off the Enacims from the mountains, from Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the mountain of Juda and Israel, and destroyed their cities.

11. And Josue struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon five gibbets , and they hung until the evening.

12. And it was told Josue that the five kings were found hidden in a cave of the city of Maceda.

13. Moses rose up, and his minister Josue: and Moses going up into the mount of God.

14. So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them suddenly.

15. And when they were passed over, the Lord said to Josue.

16. And there stood up upon the seep of the Levites, Josue, and Bani, and Cedmihel, Sabania, Bonni, Sarebias, Bani, and Chanani: and they cried with a loud voice to the Lord their God.

17. At that time Horam king of Gazer, came up to succour Lachis: and Josue slew him with all his people, so as to leave none alive.

18. Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel.

19. So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.

20. This is what the children of Israel possessed in the land of Chanaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families by the tribes of Israel gave to them.