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20 Achan replied, “It is true! I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. 21 Among the plunder I saw a beautiful robe from Babylon,[a] 200 silver coins,[b] and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound.[c] I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest.”

22 So Joshua sent some men to make a search. They ran to the tent and found the stolen goods hidden there, just as Achan had said, with the silver buried beneath the rest.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:21a Hebrew Shinar.
  2. 7:21b Hebrew 200 shekels of silver, about 5 pounds or 2.3 kilograms in weight.
  3. 7:21c Hebrew 50 shekels, about 20 ounces or 570 grams in weight.

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