The Byble in Englyshe that is to saye, the content of all the holye scrypture, bothe of the olde and newe Testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by the diligent studye of dyuers excellent lerned [men e]xperte in the fore[saide] tongues.

¶ Hai is spyed out. Acan is stoned.

CAPI. VII.

BUt yet the chyldren of Israell trespassed [unspec A] in the * 1.1 excommunicate thynges: And * 1.2 Acan the sonne of Carmi, the sonne of Zabdi, the sonne of Zareh of the trybe of Iu∣da, toke of the excommunicate thynges, And the wrath of the Lorde waxed hoote agaynst the chyldren of Israeli. And Iosua sentmen from Ierico to Hai, whiche is besyde Betha∣uen, on the east syde of Bethel, and spake vn∣to them, sayenge: Get you vp, and vewe the countrey. And the men went vp, and spyed out Hai. And returned vnto Iosua, and sayd vnto hym, let not all the people go vp but let as it were a two or thre thousand men go vp, and smyte Hai, and make not all the people to labour thyther, for they are but fewe.

And so there went vp thyther of the people, aboute a thre thousande men, and they fled before the men of Hai. And the men of Hai smote of them vpon a thyrtye and syre men: for they chased them frō before the gare euen vnto Sebarina & smote them in the goynge downe. Wherfore the hertes of the people * 1.3 for feare melted awaye lyke water.

And Iosua rent his clothes, & fell to the [unspec B] earth vpon his fare before the Arke of the lorde vntyll the euen tyde, he and the Elders of Israell, and put earth vpon theyr heades. And Iosua sayde: * 1.4 Alas, O Lorde God, wherfore hast thou brought this people ouer Iordane, to delyuer vs into the hande of the Amorites, and to destroye vs: wolde to God we had ❀ ben content, & dwelte on the other syde Iordane. Oh Lorde what shall I saye / when Israel turneth theyr back{is} before theyr enemyes: Surely the Cananites, and all the enhabyters of the lande shall heare of it, and shall conspyre agaynst vs, and destroye the name of vs out of the world. And what wylt thou do vnto thy myghtye name? And the Lorde sayd vnto Iosua, get the vp, wherfore lyest thou thus vpon thy face? Israell hath synned, and they haue transgressed myne ap¦poyntment, whiche I cōmaunded them: for they haue taken of the excōmunicate thyn∣ges, and haue stollen, & dissembled, and put

them vnto theyr owne stuffe: And therfore is it that the chyldren of Israell can not stande before theyr enemyes, but shall turne theyr backes before theyr enemyes, bycause they be excommunicate. Neyther wyll I be with you any more, excepte ye destroye the excom∣municate from amonge you.

* 1.5 Up therfore, and ☞ sanctifye the peo∣ple, and saye: sanctifye youre selues agaynst [unspec C] to morowe: for so sayd the Lorde God of Is∣raell. There is a damned thynge among you (O Israell) and therfore ye can not stande a∣gaynst your enemyes, vntyll ye haue put the dampned thyng from amonge you. To mo∣rowe mornynge therfore ye shall be brought accordynge to youre Trybes. And the tiybe whiche the Lorde taketh, shall come accor∣dynge to the kynreds therof. And the kynred whiche the Lorde shall fynde gyliye, shall come by housholdes. And the housholde, whiche the Lorde shall fynde fautye, shall come man by man. And he that is founde in the excommunicacyon, shall be burnte with fyre, he and all that he hath, bycause he hath transgressed the couenaunt of the lorde / and wrought folye in Israell. And so Iosua rose vp early in the mornynge, & brought Israell by theyr trybes: and the Trybe of Iuda was caught. And he brought the kynreds of Iu∣da, and toke the kynred of the Zarehites. And he brought the kynred of the Zarehites man, by man, and Zabdi was caught. And he brought his shousholde man by man, and Acan the sonne of Carmi, the son of Zabdi / the Sonne of Zareh in the Trybe of Iuda was caught.

And Iosua sayde vnto Acan: my sonne / [unspec D] ☞ gyue glory to the Lorde God of Israell, and gyue hym prayse, and shewe me what thou hast doone, hyde it not from me. And Acan answered Iosua, and sayde, of a truth I haue synned agaynst the Lorde god of Is∣rael, and thus and thus haue I done. I saw amonge the spoyle a goodlye Babylony she garment, and two hundred sycles of syluer, and a tonge of golde of fyftie sicles meyght: and I counted them, and toke them. And be∣holde, they lye hyd in the earth in my tente, and the syluer is there vnder. And so Iosua sent messengers: whiche when they ran vnto his tente, beholde, they were hyd in his tent / and the syluer there vnder. Therfore they toke them out of the myddest of his tent, and brought them vnto Iosua, and vnto all the Chyldren of Israell, and layde them out be∣fore the lorde. And Iosua toke Acan the son of Zarch, & the syluer, and the garment, and the tonge of golde, and his Sonnes, and his doughters, his oxen, and his asses, his shepe and his tent, & all that he had, and all Israel with hym brought them vnto the valey of Acor. And Iosua sayd: In as muche as thou hast troubled vs, the lorde shall trouble the this daye. And all Israell stooned hym with stones, and burnte them with fyre, and ouer∣whelmed them w^t stones. And they cast vpon hym a great heape of stones vnto this daye. And so the Lorde turned from the wrathe of his indygnacion. And the name of the place is called the valey of Acor vnto this daye.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Deut. vii. d and, xiii. d
• * 1.2

  Iosua. 22. d i. Para ••i a 〈◊〉〈◊〉. mach. 12 ••
• * 1.3

  Psal. xxii. ••
• * 1.4

  Dente, ix. ••
• * 1.5

  Exod. xix. a