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Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor.
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Verse 24. His sons, and so forth Probably conscious to, or accomplices of the crime of their father, ( Ch). as he could hardly have concealed these things in the midst of his tent without their knowledge. Menochius.—But granting, with Saint Augustine (q. 8,) that they were innocent of this crime, God, who is the sovereign arbiter of life and death, might order them out of the world, on this occasion, without injustice.
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