¹² Why should the Egyptians say, ‘It was with evil intent that he brought them out, to kill them in the mountains and to wipe them off the face of the earth’?^(A) Turn from your fierce anger; relent and do not bring disaster^(B) on your people.

¹⁷ and none of the condemned things^[a] are to be found in your hands. Then the Lord will turn from his fierce anger,^(A) will show you mercy,^(B) and will have compassion^(C) on you. He will increase your numbers,^(D) as he promised^(E) on oath to your ancestors—

²⁶ Over Achan they heaped^(A) up a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.^(B) Then the Lord turned from his fierce anger.^(C) Therefore that place has been called the Valley of Achor^[a](D) ever since.

²⁶ Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn away from the heat of his fierce anger,^(A) which burned against Judah because of all that Manasseh^(B) had done to arouse his anger.