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chapter 24
1
And
Josue gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem, and called for the
ancients, and the princes, and the judges, and the masters: and they stood in
the sight of the Lord:
2 And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord
the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river,
Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor: and they served strange gods.
3 And I took your father Abraham from the borders of
Mesopotamia: and brought him into the land of Chanaan: and I multiplied his
seed,
4 And gave him Isaac: and to him again I gave Jacob and
Esau. And I gave to Esau mount Seir for his possession: but Jacob and his
children went down into Egypt.
5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt with
many signs and wonders.
6 And I brought you and your fathers out of Egypt, and
you came to the sea: and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and
horsemen, as far as the Red Sea.
7 And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: and he
put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and
covered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you dwelt in the
wilderness a long time:
8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorrhite, who
dwelt beyond the Jordan. And when they fought against you, I delivered them
into your hands, and you possessed their land, and slew them.
9 And Balac son of Sephor king of Moab arose and fought
against Israel. And he sent and called for Balaam son of Beor, to curse you:
10 And I would not hear him, but on the contrary I
blessed you by him, and I delivered you out of his hand.
11 And you passed over the Jordan, and you came to
Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and the
Pherezite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Gergesite, and the
Hevite, and the Jebusite: and I delivered them into your hands.
12 And I sent before you hornets: and I drove them out
from their places, the two kings of the Amorrhites, not with thy sword nor with
thy bow.
13 And I gave you a land, in which you had not
laboured, and cities to dwell in which you built not, vineyards and oliveyards,
which you planted not.
14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with a
perfect and most sincere heart: and put away the gods which your fathers served
in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
15 But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you
have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would
rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the
gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we
will serve the Lord.
16 And the people answered, and said: God forbid we
should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods.
17 The Lord our God he brought us and our fathers out
of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage: and did very great signs in
our sight, and preserved us in all the way by which we journeyed, and among all
the people through whom we passed.
18 And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite
the inhabitant of the land into which we are come. Therefore we will serve the
Lord, for he is our God.
19 And Josue said to the people: You will not be able
to serve the Lord: for he is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not
forgive your wickedness and sins.
20 If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he
will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he
hath done you.
21 And the people said to Josue: No, it shall not be so
as thou sayest, but we will serve the Lord.
22 And Josue said to the people: You are witnesses,
that you yourselves have chosen you the Lord to serve him. And they answered:
We are witnesses.
23 Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from
among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.
24 And the people said to Josue: We will serve the Lord
our God, and we will be obedient to his commandments.
25 Josue therefore on that day made a covenant, and set
before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.
26 And he wrote all these things in the volume of the
law of the Lord: and he took a great stone, and set it under the oak that was
in the sanctuary of the Lord.
27 And he said to all the people: Behold this stone
shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord,
which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie
to the Lord your God.
28 And he sent the people away every one to their own
possession.
29 And after these things Josue the son of Null the
servant of the Lord died, being a hundred and ten years old:
30 And they buried him in the border of his possession
in Thamnathsare, which is situate in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount
Gaas.
31And Israel served the Lord all the days of Josue, and
of the ancients that lived a long time after Josue, and that had known all the
works of the Lord which he had done in Israel.
32 And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel
had taken out of Egypt, they buried in Sichem, in that part of the field which
Jacob had bought of the sons of Hemor the father of Sichem, for a hundred young
ewes, and it was in the possession of the sons of Joseph.
33 Eleazar also the son of Aaron died: and they buried
him in Gabaath that belongeth to Phinees his son, which was given him in mount
Ephraim.
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