⁷ And from Janoah down to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and touching Jericho, it goes on to Jordan.

²⁸ Their heritage and their living-places were Beth-el and its daughter-towns, and Naaran to the east, and Gezer to the west, with its daughter-towns, as well as Shechem and its daughter-towns as far as Azzah and its daughter-towns;

⁴⁸ And they went on from the mountains of Abarim, and put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho;

¹⁶ Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

¹ (Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in.)

²⁶ Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the building up of this town: with the loss of his first son will he put the first stone of it in place, and with the loss of his youngest son he will put up its doors.