113 : Basic English : Joshua 20,21; Gospel of Luke 14 1. And the Lord said to Joshua,

2. Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,

3. So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.

4. And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe.

5. And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

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112 : Basic English : Joshua 19; Gospel of Luke 13 1. And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah.

2. And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah

3. And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem

4. And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah

5. And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah

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111 : Basic English : Joshua 16,17,18; Gospel of Luke 12 1. And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;

2. And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth;

3. And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea.

4. And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their heritage.

5. And the limit of the land of the children of Ephraim by their families was marked out in this way: the limit of their heritage to the east was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the higher;

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110 : Basic English : Joshua 15; Gospel of Luke 11 1. Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south.

2. Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south:

3. From there it goes south of the slope up to Akrabbim, and on to Zin, then south past Kadesh-barnea, and on by Hezron and up to Addar, turning in the direction of Karka:

4. Then on to Azmon, ending at the stream of Egypt: and the end of the limit is at the sea; this will be your limit on the south.

5. And the east limit is the Salt Sea as far as the end of Jordan. And the limit of the north part of the land is from the inlet of the sea at the end of Jordan:

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109 : Basic English : Joshua 13,14; Gospel of Luke 10 1. Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.

2. This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

3. From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim;

4. On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which is the property of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the limit of the Amorites:

5. And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath:

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108 : Basic English : Joshua 11,12; Gospel of Luke 9 1. Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

2. And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west,

3. And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill-country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.

4. And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number.

5. And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.

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107 : Basic English : Joshua 9,10; Gospel of Luke 8 1. Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,

2. Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.

3. And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

4. Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;

5. And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.

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106 : Basic English : Joshua 7,8; Gospel of Luke 7 1. But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.

2. Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the side of Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go up and make a search through the land. And the men went up and saw how Ai was placed.

3. Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.

4. So about three thousand of the people went up, and were sent in flight by the men of Ai.

5. The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

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105 : Basic English : Joshua 5,6; Gospel of Luke 6 1. Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

2. At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself stone knives and give the children of Israel circumcision a second time.

3. So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.

4. And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

5. All the people who came out had undergone circumcision; but all the people whose birth had taken place in the waste land on their journey from Egypt had not.

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104 : Basic English : Joshua 3,4; Gospel of Luke 5 1. Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.

2. And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,

3. Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;

4. But let there be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits: come no nearer to it, so that you may see the way you have to go, for you have not been over this way before.

5. And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.

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