¹⁰ On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month,^(A) while camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, the Israelites celebrated the Passover.^{(B) 11} The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land:^(C) unleavened bread^(D) and roasted grain.^{(E) 12} The manna stopped the day after^[a] they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.^(F)

The Fall of Jericho

¹³ Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man^(G) standing in front of him with a drawn sword^(H) in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

¹⁴ “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown^(I) to the ground^(J) in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord^[b] have for his servant?”

¹⁵ The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.”^(K) And Joshua did so.

⁸ “Go down ahead of me to Gilgal.^(A) I will surely come down to you to sacrifice burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, but you must wait seven^(B) days until I come to you and tell you what you are to do.”

²¹ The soldiers took sheep and cattle from the plunder, the best of what was devoted to God, in order to sacrifice them to the Lord your God at Gilgal.”