⁸ That is why the field is still called the Field of Blood.

¹⁹ The news of his death spread to all the people of Jerusalem, and they gave the place the Aramaic name Akeldama, which means “Field of Blood.”)

¹⁵ So the guards accepted the bribe and said what they were told to say. Their story spread widely among the Jews, and they still tell it today.

²⁶ Later the man moved to the land of the Hittites, where he built a town. He named it Luz, which is its name to this day.

⁹ Joshua also set up another pile of twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, at the place where the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant were standing. And they are there to this day.

⁶ The Lord buried him^[a] in a valley near Beth-peor in Moab, but to this day no one knows the exact place.

⁹ These poles were so long that their ends could be seen from the Holy Place,^[a] which is in front of the Most Holy Place, but not from the outside. They are still there to this day.