| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3'Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4'To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5'Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6'I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7'But when they cried out to the LORD, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for a long time. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8'Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land when I destroyed them before you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9'Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10'But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his hand. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then I sent the hornet before you and it drove out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, but not by your sword or your bow. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13'I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.' |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods; |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17for the LORD our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did these great signs in our sight and preserved us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the LORD, for He is our God." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Then Joshua said to the people, "You will not be able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21The people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the LORD." |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the LORD, to serve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23"Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst, and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and we will obey His voice." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be for a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us; thus it shall be for a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God." |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29It came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, and had known all the deeds of the LORD which He had done for Israel. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph's sons. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gibeah of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim. |
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