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20 Achan answered Joshua, “It is true. I am the one who has sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I did: 21 Among the plunder I saw an expensive Mesopotamian robe,[a] a fine one, and two hundred shekels of silver and one wedge[b] of gold—it weighed fifty shekels.[c] I coveted them and I took them. Now they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver is underneath it.”

22 So Joshua sent agents. They ran to the tent, and there it was! The robe was hidden in his tent, and the silver was underneath it!

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 7:21 Literally a robe from Shinar
  2. Joshua 7:21 Or bar
  3. Joshua 7:21 A shekel is about ⅖ of an ounce.