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Joshua (lived 13th century BC)In the Old Testament, successor of Moses, who led the Jews in their return to, and conquest of, the land of Canaan. The city of Jericho was the first to fall – according to the Book of Joshua, the walls crumbled to the blast of his trumpets. Joshua
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Farmers first cultivated wheat near Jericho, a small city better known for its appearance in the biblical book of Joshua. The Book of Joshua says that God commanded the children of Israel to commit a general ethnic cleansing in the land of Canaan. |
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