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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 stood··forth before God.
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And Joshua said to▵ all the people, Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel: Across the river your fathers dwelt from an age, 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 across the river, and made him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave to him Isaac.
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And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau; and I gave to 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 struck Egypt according··to◦ that which I did among them; and after this I brought· you ·out.
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And I brought··out your fathers out of Egypt; and you came unto the sea; and the Egyptians◦ pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Suph sea.
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And they cried to▵ Jehovah, and He set thick··darkness between you and the Egyptians◦, and brought the sea over them and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt; and you dwelt in the wilderness many days.
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And I brought you into▵ the land of the Amorite, who dwelt across Jordan; and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land, and I blotted· them ·out from before you.
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And Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, arose and fought against◦ Israel, and sent and called for Balaam the son of Beor to curse◦ you:
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and I was· not ·willing to hearken to Balaam; and blessing he blessed you; and I rescued you from his hand.
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And you crossed··over the Jordan and came to▵ Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought··against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I gave them into your hand.
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And I sent the hornet before you, and it drove· them ·out from before you, two kings of the Amorite; not with thy sword, and not with thy bow.
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And I gave to you a land on◦ which thou didst not toil*, and cities which you built not, and you dwell in them; of vineyards and olive··trees which you planted not do you◦ eat;
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and now fear Jehovah and serve Him in integrity and in truth; and remove the gods which your fathers served across the river, and in Egypt; and serve Jehovah.
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And if it be··evil in your eyes to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve; whether the gods whom your fathers served that were across the river, or the gods of the Amorite, in whose land you◦ 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 who brought· us ·up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, and from the house of servitude*, and who did those great signs before our eyes, and kept us in all the way in which◦ we went◦, and among all the people among whom we passed:
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and Jehovah drove··out from before us all the peoples and the Amorite dwelling in the land; we◦ also will serve Jehovah, for He◦ is our God.
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And Joshua said unto▵ the people, You are· not ·able to serve Jehovah; for He◦ is a holy God◦; He◦ is a jealous God; He will not bear your transgressions nor your sins.
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If▫ you forsake Jehovah and serve foreign gods, then He will turn··back and do··evil to you and consume· you ·all, after that He has done··good to you.
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And the people said unto▵ Joshua, No◦, but◦ we will serve Jehovah.
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And Joshua said unto▵ the people, You◦ are witnesses of yourselves that you◦ have chosen for yourselves Jehovah, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses.
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And now remove the foreign gods which are in among you, and incline your heart to▵ Jehovah, the God of Israel.
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And the people said unto▵ Joshua, Jehovah our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey.
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And Joshua cut a covenant for the people in that◦ day, and set before them a statute and a judgment 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 raised· it ·up there under the oak which was at the sanctuary of Jehovah.
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And Joshua said unto▵ all the people, Behold this stone shall be a witness for us; for it◦ has heard all the sayings of Jehovah, which He spoke with▵ us; and it shall be a witness of yourselves, lest you deny your God.
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And Joshua sent the people away, every man◦ to his inheritance.
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And it was, after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, a son of a hundred and ten years;
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and they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serach, which is in Mount Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash.
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And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged their days after Joshua, and who had known all the deeds of Jehovah that He had done for Israel.
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And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel had brought··up from Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a part of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem with a hundred kesitah, and it became an inheritance for the sons 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 was given him in Mount Ephraim.
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