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‏ Joshua 7:13-14

7:13  a Command the people to purify themselves: See study note on 3:5.
7:14  b Israel’s twelve tribes were descendants of Jacob’s sons. A clan represented a smaller unit within the tribes; later, as Israel’s allotments in the land were distributed, a clan usually received possession of a town and its surrounding fields, forest, and pastureland. A man’s family included his sons and their dependents.
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