וַיְהִ֗י בִּֽהְי֣וֹת יְהוֹשֻׁעַ֮ בִּירִיחוֹ֒ וַיִּשָּׂ֤א עֵינָיו֙ וַיַּ֔רְא וְהִנֵּה־אִישׁ֙ עֹמֵ֣ד לְנֶגְדּ֔וֹ וְחַרְבּ֥וֹ שְׁלוּפָ֖ה בְּיָד֑וֹ וַיֵּ֨לֶךְ יְהוֹשֻׁ֤עַ אֵלָיו֙ וַיֹּ֣אמֶר ל֔וֹ הֲלָ֥נוּ אַתָּ֖ה אִם־לְצָרֵֽינוּ׃
Un jour, Josué, se trouvant devant Jéricho, leva les yeux et vit un homme debout en face de lui, l’épée nue à la main. Josué alla à lui et lui dit: "Es-tu des nôtres ou un de nos ennemis?"
Megillah
But is the [Temple] service more important than the study of the Torah? Surely it is written, “And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold there stood a man over against him, . . . and he fell on his face” (Joshua 5:13).
Megillah
He said to him: This evening you neglected the regular afternoon sacrifice, and now you have neglected the study of the Torah. Joshua replied: For which of them did you come? He answered: I have come now. Straightway, “Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley [ha-emek]” (Joshua 8:9), and R. Yohanan said:
Jerusalem Talmud Nedarim
HALAKHAH: “One who vows not to use a town,” etc. From where that the suburbs of a town are like the town? It is written56Jos. 5:13; this is written before the description of the conquest of Jericho. In the Babli, 56b, the argument is in the name of R. Joḥanan. Since for the Sages, the biblical meaning of a word has precedence over the meaning in the vernacular, one tries to have a biblical reference for the Sages’ opinion., “it happened when Joshua was in Jericho.” How could he have been in Jericho? Is it not written that57Jos. 6:1: “Jericho was closed and besieged because of the Children of Israel; no one left and no one entered.” “Jericho was closed and besieged,” and you say so? Rebbi Judan bar Shalom said, he was in a suburb. Rebbi Abun in the name of Rebbi Aḥa: It happened in Jericho58The argument does not prove anything; nobody can be sure that the editor of the book of Joshua follows a chronological order; cf. Soṭa 8, Note 127..