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19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I implore you, (A)give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and give praise to Him; and declare to me now what you have done. Do not hide it from me.” 20 So Achan answered Joshua and said, “Truly, I have sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and [a]this is what I did: 21 I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred [b]shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight; then I [c](B)coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 7:20 Lit thus and thus I did
  2. Joshua 7:21 A shekel was approx. 0.4 oz. or 11 gm
  3. Joshua 7:21 Or desired, cf. Gen 3:6-8