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Chapter 24 And Joshua gathered all the
tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called

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for the elders of Israel, and for their
heads, and for their judges, and for their

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officers, and they presented themselves
before God.

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And Joshua said unto all the people,
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel,

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Your fathers dwelt on the other side of
the flood in old time, even Terah,

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the father of Abraham, and the father of
Nachor, and they served other gods.

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And I took your father Abraham from the
other side of the flood, and led him

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throughout all the land of Canaan,
and multiplied his seed, and gave him

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Isaac.

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And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau,
and I gave unto Esau Mount Seir,

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to possess it.

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But Jacob and his children went down into
Egypt.

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I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued
Egypt according to that which I did among

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them.

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And afterward I brought you out,
and I brought your fathers out of Egypt.

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And ye came unto the sea, and the
Egyptians pursued after your fathers with

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chariots and horsemen unto the red sea.

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And when they cried unto the Lord,
he put darkness between you and the

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Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them,
and covered them.

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And your eyes have seen what I have done
in Egypt.

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And ye dwelt in the wilderness a long
season.

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And I brought you into the land of the
Amorites, which dwelt on the other side,

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Jordan.

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And they fought with you, and I gave them
into your hand, that ye might possess

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their land.

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And I destroyed them from before you.

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Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, arose and warred against Israel,

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and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor
to curse you.

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But I would not hearken unto Balaam.

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Therefore he blessed you still.

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So I delivered you out of his hand.

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And you went over Jordan, and came unto
Jericho.

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And the men of Jericho fought against you,
the Amorites, and the Perizzites,

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and the Canaanites, and the Hittites,
and the Girgashites, the Hivites,

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and the Jebusites.

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And I delivered them into your hand.

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And I sent the hornet before you,
which drave them out from before you,

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even the two kings of the Amorites,
but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

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And I have given you a land for which ye
did not labor, and cities which ye built

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not, and ye dwell in them, of the
vineyards and olive yards which ye planted

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not to ye eat.

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Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him
in sincerity and in truth, and put away

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the gods which your fathers served on the
other side of the flood, and in Egypt,

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and serve ye the Lord.

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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the
Lord, choose you this day whom he will

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serve, whether the gods which your fathers
served that were on the other side of the

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flood, or the gods of the Amorites in
whose land ye dwell.

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But as for me and my house, we will serve
the Lord.

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And the people answered and said,
God forbid that we should forsake the Lord

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to serve other gods for the Lord our God,
he it is that brought us up and our

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fathers out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage, and which did

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those great signs in our sight,
and preserved us in all the way wherein we

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went, and among all the people through
whom we passed.

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And the Lord drave out from before us all
the people, even the Amorites,

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which dwelt in the land.

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Therefore will we also serve the Lord,
for he is our God.

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And Joshua said unto the people,
Ye cannot serve the Lord, for he is an

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holy God.

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He is a jealous God.

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He will not forgive your transgressions
nor your sins.

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If ye forsake the Lord and serve strange
gods, then he will turn unto you hurt,

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and consume you.

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After that he hath done you good.

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And the people said unto Joshua,
Nay, but we will serve the Lord.

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And Joshua said unto the people,
Ye are witnesses against yourselves that

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ye have chosen you the Lord to serve him.

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And they said, We are witnesses.

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Now therefore put away, said he,
the strange gods which are among you,

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and incline your heart unto the Lord God
of Israel.

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And the people said unto Joshua,
The Lord our God will we serve,

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and his voice will we obey.

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So Joshua made a covenant with the people
that day, and set them a statute and an

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ordinance in Shechem.

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And Joshua wrote these words in the book
of the law of God, and took a great stone,

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and set it up there under an oak that was
by the sanctuary of the Lord.

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And Joshua said unto all the people,
Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto

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us, for it hath heard all the words of the
Lord which he spake unto us.

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It shall be therefore a witness unto you,
lest ye deny your God.

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So Joshua let the people depart,
every man unto his inheritance.

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And it came to pass after these things,
that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of

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the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten
years old.

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And they buried him in the border of his
inheritance in Timnath-sira, which is in

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Mount Ephraim, on the north side of the
hill of Geash.

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And Israel served the Lord all the days of
Joshua, and all the days of the elders

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that overlived Joshua, and which had known
all the works of the Lord that he had done

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for Israel.

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And the bones of Joseph, which the
children of Israel brought up out of

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Egypt, buried they in Shechem,
in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought

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of the sons of Hamor, the father of
Shechem, for an hundred pieces of silver.

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And it became the inheritance of the
children of Joseph.

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And Eliezer the son of Aaron died,
and they buried him in a hill that

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pertained to Phinehas his son,
which was given him in Mount Ephraim.