Joshua:24
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And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem ,
and called for the elders of Israel ,
and for their heads ,
and for their judges ,
and for their officers ;
and they presented themselves before God .
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And Joshua said unto all the people ,
Thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel :
Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river ,
Terah ,
the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor ,
and they served other gods .
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And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river ,
and led him throughout the land of Canaan ,
and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac .
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And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau ;
and I gave unto Esau mount Seir ,
to possess it ;
and Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt .
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And I sent Moses and Aaron ,
and I plagued Egypt ,
according to that which I did among them ;
and afterwards I brought you out .
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And I brought your fathers out of Egypt ,
and ye came unto the sea ;
and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea .
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Then they cried to Jehovah ,
and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians ,
and brought the sea upon them ,
and covered them ;
and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt ;
and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long time .
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And I brought you into the land of the Amorites ,
who dwelt beyond the Jordan ,
and they fought with you ,
and I gave them into your hand ,
and ye took possession of their land ,
and I destroyed them from before you .
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And Balak the son of Zippor ,
king of Moab ,
arose and warred against Israel ,
and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you ;
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but I would not hearken unto Balaam ,
and he blessed you expressly ,
and I delivered you out of his hand .
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And ye went over the Jordan ,
and came unto Jericho ,
and the men of Jericho fought against you ,
the Amorites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Canaanites ,
and the Hittites ,
and the Girgashites ,
the Hivites ,
and the Jebusites ;
and I delivered them into your hand .
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And I sent the hornet before you ,
which drove them out from before you , [
as ]
the two kings of the Amorites ;
not with thy sword ,
nor with thy bow .
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And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour ,
and cities which ye built not ,
and ye dwell in them ;
of vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat .
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And now fear Jehovah and serve him in perfectness and in truth ;
and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river ,
and in Egypt ;
and serve Jehovah .
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah ,
choose you this day whom ye will serve ;
whether the gods whom your fathers that were on the other side of the river served ,
or the gods of the Amorite ,
in whose land ye dwell ;
but as for me and my house ,
we will serve Jehovah .
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And the people answered and said ,
Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah ,
to serve other gods ;
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for Jehovah our God ,
he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt ,
from the house of bondage ,
and who did those great signs before our eyes ,
and preserved us in all the way wherein we went ,
and among all the peoples through whom we passed !
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And Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples ,
and the Amorites the inhabitants of the land :
so therefore we will serve Jehovah ,
for he is our God .
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And Joshua said to the people ,
Ye cannot serve Jehovah ,
for he is a holy God ;
he is a jealous �
God ;
he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins .
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If ye forsake Jehovah ,
and serve strange gods ,
then he will turn and do you hurt ,
and consume you ,
after that he hath done you good .
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And the people said to Joshua ,
No ;
but we will serve Jehovah .
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And Joshua said unto the people ,
Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah ,
to serve him .
And they said , [
We are ]
witnesses .
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Now therefore put away the strange gods that are among you ,
and incline your heart unto Jehovah the God of Israel .
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And the people said unto Joshua ,
Jehovah our God will we serve ,
and to his voice will we hearken .
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day ,
and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem .
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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God ,
and took a great stone ,
and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah .
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And Joshua said unto all the people ,
Behold ,
this stone shall be a witness unto us ,
for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah which he spoke unto us ;
and it shall be a witness against you ,
lest ye deny your God .
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And Joshua dismissed the people ,
every man to his inheritance .
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And it came to pass after these things ,
that Joshua the son of Nun ,
the servant of Jehovah ,
died ,
a hundred and ten years old .
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah ,
which is in mount Ephraim ,
on the north side of the mountain of Gaash .
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And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua ,
and all the days of the elders whose days were prolonged after Joshua ,
and who had known all the works of Jehovah ,
which he had done for Israel .
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And the bones of Joseph ,
which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt ,
buried they in Shechem in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor ,
Shechem '
s father ,
for a hundred kesitahs ;
and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph .
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And Eleazar the son of Aaron died ;
and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son ,
which had been given him in mount Ephraim .