Joshua 7:20

And Achan answered Joshua, and said ,.... He made a free and open confession of his sin:

indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel ; against him who had been so good to Israel in many instances, and particularly in delivering Jericho into their hands in so extraordinary a manner; against a law of his, respecting the spoil of that city, which sin was the more aggravated thereby; and that he had committed the sin he was taken for and charged with, he owns was a true and real fact:

and thus and thus have I done ; such and such things have I taken, and in the manner as follows.