Joshua 5:12-14

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¹² The day they ate this food, the manna stopped coming [Ex. 16:35]. The ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] no longer got the manna from heaven. They ate the food grown in the land of Canaan that year.

¹³ Joshua was near Jericho when he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a sword in his hand [Ex. 3:2—4:17; Judg. 6:11–23]. Joshua went to him and asked, “Are you ·a friend or an enemy [^Lfor us or for our enemies/adversaries]?”

¹⁴ The man answered, “·I am neither [^LNo]. I have come as the commander of the Lord’s army [^CGod himself who comes as a warrior; Ex. 15:3].”

Then Joshua bowed facedown on the ground and asked, “Does my ·master [lord] have a ·command [message] for me, his servant?”