For this cause the priests of Dagon, and all that enter into his temple, tread not upon the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod unto this day.
And I shall visit on each that proudly entereth on the threshold in that day, which fill the house of their Lord God with wickedness and guile.
He said, Unlace thy shoes from thy feet, for the place, in which thou standest, is holy. And Joshua did, as it was commanded to him.
And when the morrowtide was made, the man rose, and opened the door, for to go forth on his journey; and lo! his [secondary] wife lay at the door, her hands spread abroad in the threshold.