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And it came to pass when the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan and the kings of Phoenicia who were by the sea heard that the Lord God had dried up the river Jordan from before the sons of Israel while they were crossing over, that their minds melted and they were astounded, and there was no understanding at all in them because of the sons of Israel.
And this is the manner in which Joshua purified the sons of Israel: as many as had been born along the way, and as many as were uncircumcised among those who had come out of Egypt —
For Israel wandered forty-two years in the Madbaritis wilderness; therefore most of them were uncircumcised, the fighting men who had come out of the land of Egypt, those who disobeyed the commandments of God, concerning whom he also determined that they should not see the land which the Lord swore to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
The manna ceased after they had eaten of the grain of the land, and there was no longer manna for the sons of Israel; and they harvested the region of the Phoenicians in that year.
And it came to pass when Joshua was at Jericho that he lifted up his eyes and saw a man standing opposite him, and a sword drawn in his hand. And Joshua approached and said to him: Are you ours or of our adversaries?
And he said to him: I am commander-in-chief of the host of the Lord; I have now arrived. And Joshua fell on his face to the ground and said to him: Master, what do you command your servant?