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"First thing in the morning you will be called up by tribes. The tribe God names will come up clan by clan; the clan God names will come up family by family; and the family God names will come up man by man.
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The person found with the cursed things will be burned, he and everything he has, because he broke God's covenant and did this despicable thing in Israel."
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Joshua was up at the crack of dawn and called Israel up tribe by tribe. The tribe of Judah was singled out.
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Then he called up the clans and singled out the Zerahites. He called up the Zerahite families and singled out the Zabdi family.
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He called up the family members one by one and singled out Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah.
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Joshua spoke to Achan, "My son, give glory to God, the God of Israel. Make your confession to him. Tell me what you did. Don't keep back anything from me."
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Achan answered Joshua, "It's true. I sinned against God, the God of Israel. This is how I did it.
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In the plunder I spotted a beautiful Shinar robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a fifty-shekel bar of gold, and I coveted and took them. They are buried in my tent with the silver at the bottom."
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Joshua sent off messengers. They ran to the tent. And there it was, buried in the tent with the silver at the bottom.
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They took the stuff from the tent and brought it to Joshua and to all the People of Israel and spread it out before God.
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Joshua took Achan son of Zerah, took the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, sheep, and tent - everything connected with him. All Israel was there. They led them off to the Valley of Achor (Trouble Valley).