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24 : 1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israelto Shechem andsummoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel. Andthey presented themselves before God.
24 : 2 And Joshua said to all the people,Thus says theLord, the God of Israel,Long ago,your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates,Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; andthey served other gods.
24 : 3 Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River andled him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many.I gave him Isaac.
24 : 4 And to Isaac I gaveJacob and Esau.And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess,but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
24 : 5 And I sent Moses and Aaron,and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, andafterward I brought you out.
24 : 6 ThenI brought your fathers out of Egypt, andyou came to the sea.And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.
24 : 7 And when they cried to theLord,he put darkness between you and the Egyptiansand made the sea come upon them and cover them;and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt.And you lived in the wilderness a long time.
24 : 8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan.They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.
24 : 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel.And he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,
24 : 10 but I would not listen to Balaam.Indeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand.
24 : 11 And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho,and the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and alsothe Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand.
24 : 12 And I sentthe hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it wasnot by your sword or by your bow.
24 : 13 I gave you a land on which you had not laboredand cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.
24 : 14 Now therefore fear theLordand serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness.Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve theLord.
24 : 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve theLord,choose this day whom you will serve, whetherthe gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, orthe gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell.But as for me and my house, we will serve theLord.
24 : 16 Then the people answered,Far be it from us that we should forsake theLordto serve other gods,
24 : 17 for it is theLordour God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed.
24 : 18 And theLorddrove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve theLord, for he is our God.
24 : 19 But Joshua said to the people,You are not able to serve theLord, for he isa holy God. He isa jealous God;he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.
24 : 20 If you forsake theLordand serve foreign gods, thenhe will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.
24 : 21 And the people said to Joshua,No, but we will serve theLord.
24 : 22 Then Joshua said to the people,You are witnesses against yourselves thatyou have chosen theLord, to serve him.And they said,We are witnesses.
24 : 23 He said,Thenput away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to theLord, the God of Israel.
24 : 24 And the people said to Joshua,TheLordour God we will serve, and his voice we will obey.
24 : 25 So Joshuamade a covenant with the people that day, and put in placestatutes and rules for them at Shechem.
24 : 26 And Joshuawrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. Andhe took a large stone and set it up thereunder the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of theLord.
24 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people,Behold,this stone shall be a witness against us, forit has heard all the words of theLordthat he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.
24 : 28 So Joshuasent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
24 : 29 After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of theLord, died, being 110 years old.
24 : 30 And they buried him in his own inheritance atTimnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.
24 : 31 Israel served theLordall the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshuaand had known all the work that theLorddid for Israel.
24 : 32 As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of landthat Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.
24 : 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town ofPhinehas his son, which had been given him inthe hill country of Ephraim.