¹ And the Lord said to Joshua,

¹⁴ And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

² And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hands Jericho with its king and all its men of war.

¹⁰ Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?

¹ Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.

² This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

³ From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim;

⁴ On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which is the property of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the limit of the Amorites:

⁵ And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath:

⁶ All the people of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Zidonians; them will I send out from before the children of Israel: only make division of it to Israel for a heritage, as I have given you orders to do.

⁷ So now make division of this land for a heritage to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.