And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.

When they were by the house of Micah, they recognized the voice of the young Levite. And they turned aside and said to him, "Who brought you here? What are you doing in this place? What is your business here?"

Jonadab said to him, "Lie down on your bed and pretend to be ill. And when your father comes to see you, say to him, 'Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and prepare the food in my sight, that I may see it and eat it from her hand.'"

Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company will not help him in war, when mounds are cast up and siege walls built to cut off many lives.

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?"

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die because he has made himself the Son of God."