10. The people of Israel were still camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho. It was there, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, they celebrated the Passover Feast.
11. The next day after the Passover, the people ate some of the food grown on that land: bread made without yeast and roasted grain.
12. The day they ate this food, the manna stopped coming. The Israelites no longer got the manna from heaven. They ate the food grown in the land of Canaan that year.
13. Joshua was near Jericho. He looked up and saw a man standing in front of him. The man had a sword in his hand. Joshua went to him and asked, “Are you a friend or an enemy?”
14. The man answered, “I am neither one. I have come as the commander of the Lord’s army.”Then Joshua bowed facedown on the ground. He asked, “Does my master have a command for me, his servant?”
15. The commander of the Lord’s army answered, “Take off your sandals. The place where you are standing is holy.” So Joshua did.