¹ And Jehovah said to^▵ Abram, Go from thy land, and from thy birth, and from the house of thy father, to^▵ the land that I will cause thee to see.

² And I will make thee into^◦ a great nation; and I will bless thee, and will make· thy name ·great; and be thou a blessing.

³ And I will bless those who bless thee, and will curse him who reviles thee; and in thee shall all the families of the ground be blessed.

⁴ And Abram went as^◦ Jehovah had spoken to^▵ him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was a son of five years and seventy years, when he went·​·out from Haran.

⁵ And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and their every acquisition that they had acquired, and the soul that they had made^* in Haran; and they went·​·out to go to^▫ the land of Canaan; and they came to^▫ the land of Canaan.

⁶ And Abram passed·​·through into the land, even·​·to the place Shechem, even·​·to the oak·​·grove of Moreh; and the Canaanite was then^▵ in the land.

⁷ And Jehovah appeared to^▵ Abram, and said, To thy seed will I give this land. And there he built an altar to Jehovah, who appeared to^▵ him.

⁸ And he moved·​·away from there to^▫ the mountain on the east of^◦ Bethel, and stretched·​·out his tent; with Bethel toward the sea, and Ai on the east. And he built there an altar to Jehovah, and called on^◦ the name of Jehovah.

⁹ And Abram journeyed, going^◦ and journeying, toward the south.

¹⁰ And there was a famine in the land. And Abram went·​·down toward Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was heavy in the land.

¹¹ And it was, as^◦ he came·​·near to come unto^▫ Egypt, that he said to^▵ Sarai his wife, Behold, I pray^◦, I know that thou^◦ art a woman beautiful in appearance;

¹² and it shall be, that the Egyptians^◦ shall see thee, and they will say, This is his wife; and they will kill me, and will make· thee ·to·​·live.

¹³ Say, I pray^◦, thou^◦ art my sister; so·​·that it may be·​·well with me on^◦ account·​·of thee, and that my soul may live because·​·of thee.

¹⁴ And it was, as Abram came to^▫ Egypt, that the Egyptians^◦ saw the woman, that she^◦ was very beautiful.

¹⁵ And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to^▵ Pharaoh; and the woman was taken to Pharaoh’s house.

¹⁶ And he did·​·well to Abram on^◦ account·​·of her; and he had^◦ flock and herd, and donkeys and menservants, and handmaids and she·​·donkeys, and camels.

¹⁷ And Jehovah plagued Pharaoh with great plagues, and his house, on·​·account·​·of the matter^* of Sarai, the wife of Abram.

¹⁸ And Pharaoh called to Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done to me? why didst thou not tell me that she^◦ is thy wife?

¹⁹ Why saidst thou, She^◦ is my sister? and I might have taken her to me for a woman. And now, behold thy wife; take her, and go.

²⁰ And Pharaoh commanded the men^◦ concerning him; and they sent· him ·away, and his wife, and all that he had^◦.

¹ Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

² Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

³ I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

⁴ I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

⁵ "'I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out.

⁶ I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.

⁷ When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.

⁸ "'I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

⁹ Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

¹⁰ but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

¹¹ "'You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

¹² I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

¹³ I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn't build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant.'

¹⁴ "Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

¹⁵ If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."

¹⁶ The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

¹⁷ for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.

¹⁸ Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God."

¹⁹ Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

²⁰ If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."

²¹ The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Yahweh."

²² Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses."

²³ "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."

²⁴ The people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."

²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

²⁶ Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

²⁷ Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."

²⁸ So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

²⁹ It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

³⁰ They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

³¹ Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.

³² They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

³³ Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.