Joshua 24:21-33 ▼

21 “No!” replied the people (YHWH saves). “We will serve the LORD {YHWH}!”

22 Then Joshua (YHWH saves) told them, “You⁺ are witnesses against yourselves that you⁺ have chosen to serve the LORD {YHWH}.” “We are witnesses!” they said.

23 “Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you⁺ and incline your⁺ hearts to the LORD, the God {YHWH Elohe} of Israel (he wrestles with God).”

24 So the people said to Joshua (YHWH saves), “We will serve the LORD our God {YHWH Elohenu} and obey His voice.”

25 On that day Joshua (YHWH saves) made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem (shoulder) he established for them a statute and ordinance.

26 Joshua (YHWH saves) recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God {Elohim}. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak (terebinth) that was near the sanctuary of the LORD {YHWH}.

27 And Joshua (YHWH saves) said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD {YHWH} has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you⁺ if you⁺ ever deny your⁺ God {Elohim}.”

28 Then Joshua (YHWH saves) sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

29 Some time later, Joshua (YHWH saves) son of Nun (fish / posterity), the servant of the LORD {YHWH}, died at the age of 110.

30 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah (portion of the sun) in the hill country of Ephraim (doubly fruitful), north of Mount Gaash (quaking).

31 Israel (he wrestles with God) had served the LORD {YHWH} throughout the days of Joshua (YHWH saves) and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.

32 And the bones of Joseph (YHWH has added), which the Israelites (God prevails) had brought up out of Egypt (land of bondage), were buried at Shechem (shoulder) in the plot of land that Jacob (he grasps the heel) had purchased from the sons of Hamor (he donkey), Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver \a hundred kesitahs/. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

33 Eleazar (God has helped) son of Aaron (light bringer) also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas (mouth of brass) in the hill country of Ephraim (doubly fruitful).