¹¹ He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” ¹² The man said, ^(A)“The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate.” ¹³ Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, ^(B)“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

¹⁴ The Lord God said to the serpent,

¹⁶ To the woman he said,

¹⁷ And to Adam he said,

²⁰ The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.^{[c] 21} And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skins and clothed them.

²² Then the Lord God said, ^(N)“Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand ^(O)and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever—” ²³ therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden ^(P)to work the ground from which he was taken. ²⁴ He drove out the man, and at the east of the garden of Eden he placed the ^(Q)cherubim and a flaming sword that turned every way to guard the way to the tree of life.

The New Generation Circumcised

5 As soon as all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites ^(A)who were by the sea, ^(B)heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts ^(C)melted and ^(D)there was no longer any spirit in them because of the people of Israel.

² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make ^(E)flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” ³ So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.^{[a] 4} And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: ^(F)all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt. ⁵ Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised. ⁶ For the people of Israel walked ^(G)forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord ^(H)swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, ^(I)a land flowing with milk and honey. ⁷ So it was ^(J)their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

⁸ When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed. ⁹ And the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the ^(K)reproach of Egypt from you.” And so the name of that place is called ^(L)Gilgal^[b] to this day.

First Passover in Canaan

¹⁰ While the people of Israel were encamped at Gilgal, they kept the Passover ^(M)on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho. ¹¹ And the day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain. ¹² And ^(N)the manna ceased the day after they ate of the produce of the land. And there was no longer manna for the people of Israel, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

The Commander of the Lord's Army

¹³ When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, ^(O)a man was standing before him ^(P)with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?” ¹⁴ And he said, “No; but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come.” And Joshua ^(Q)fell on his face to the earth and worshiped^[c] and said to him, “What does my lord say to his servant?” ¹⁵ And the commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, ^(R)“Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

¹⁸ In that day the Lord will take away ^(M)the finery of the anklets, the ^(N)headbands, and the ^(O)crescents; ¹⁹ the pendants, the bracelets, and the scarves; ²⁰ the ^(P)headdresses, the armlets, the sashes, the perfume boxes, and the amulets; ²¹ the signet rings and ^(Q)nose rings; ²² the ^(R)festal robes, the mantles, the cloaks, and the handbags; ²³ the mirrors, the linen garments, the turbans, and the veils.

4 ^(AA)And seven women ^(AB)shall take hold of ^(AC)one man in that day, saying, “We will eat our own bread and wear our own clothes, only let us be called by your name; ^(AD)take away our reproach.”

The Flight to Egypt

¹³ Now when they had departed, behold, ^(A)an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” ¹⁴ And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt ¹⁵ and remained there until the death of Herod. ^(B)This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, ^(C)“Out of Egypt I called my son.”

Herod Kills the Children

¹⁶ Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men. ^17 (D)Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:

The Return to Nazareth

¹⁹ But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, ²⁰ saying, “Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for ^(G)those who sought the child's life are dead.” ²¹ And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel. ²² But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and ^(H)being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee. ²³ And he went and lived in a city called ^(I)Nazareth, ^(J)so that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled, that he would be called a Nazarene.

²² “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, ^(D)a man attested to you by God ^(E)with ^(F)mighty works and wonders and signs that ^(G)God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— ²³ this Jesus,^{[a] (H)}delivered up according to ^(I)the definite plan and ^(J)foreknowledge of God, ^(K)you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. ^24 (L)God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because ^(M)it was not possible for him to be held by it. ²⁵ For David says concerning him,