and gave him Isaac.
024:004 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir,
to possess it: and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
024:005 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to
that which I did in the midst of it: and afterward I
brought you out.
024:006 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea;
and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots
and with horsemen to the Red Sea{or, Sea of Reeds}.
024:007 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.
024:008 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, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them
from before you.
024:009 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought
against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor
to curse you;
024:010 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still:
so I delivered you out of his hand.
024:011 You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men
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 delivered them into your hand.
024:012 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.
024:013 I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities
which you didn't build, and you dwell therein; of vineyards
and olive groves which you didn't plant do you eat.
024:014 Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth;
and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River,
and in Egypt; and serve you Yahweh.
024:015 If it seem evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose you 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.
024:016 The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh,
to serve other gods;
024:017 for Yahweh our God, he it is 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;
024:018 and 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.
024:019 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.
024:020 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will
turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he has
done you good.
024:021 The people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve Yahweh.
024:022 Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against
yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve him.
They said, We are witnesses.
024:023 Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods which are
among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
024:024 The people said to Joshua, Yahweh our God will we serve,
and to his voice will we listen.
024:025 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set
them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
024:026 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.
024:027 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.
024:028 So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
024:029 It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun,
the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
024:030 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.
024:031 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.
024:032 The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought
up out of Egypt, buried they 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:
and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
024:033 Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill
of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill
country of Ephraim.