Joshua 24
24:1And Joshua brought together all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and he called together the elders of Israel, and their rulers, and their magistrates, and their scribes; and they stood before God.
24:2And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the lord God of Israel, On the other side of the river your fathers dwelled from the beginning -- Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor; and they served other gods.
24:3And I took your father Abraham from out of the other side of the river, and I guided him in all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his seed.
24:4And I gave to him Isaac; and I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau; and I gave to Esau mount Seir, for an inheritance to him; and Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt.
24:5And I sent Moses and Aaron, and he struck Egypt with the things which he did among them.
24:6And after these things he led you, and he led your fathers from out of Egypt. And you entered into the sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horses into the red sea.
24:7And we yelled to the lord, and he put a cloud and dimness between you and between the Egyptians; and he brought upon them the sea, and it covered them; and your eyes beheld as much as the lord did in the land of Egypt; and you were in the wilderness many days.
24:8And he led you into the land of the Amorites dwelling on the other side of the Jordan; and they deployed against you. And the lord delivered them into your hands, and you inherited their land, and you utterly destroyed them from your face.
24:9And Balak rose up, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, and deployed against Israel. And sending, he called Balaam son of Beor to curse you.
24:10And the lord your God did not want to destroy you, and with blessings he blessed you, and rescued you from their hands.
24:11And you passed over the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the ones dwelling in Jericho waged war against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and he delivered them into your hands.
24:12And he sent the swarm of wasps in front of you, and it cast them out from your presence -- the two kings of the Amorites; but not by your broadsword, nor by your bow.
24:13And he gave to you the land upon which you did not tire by labor upon; and he gave cities which you did not build, but you settled upon them; and he gave vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant, but you shall eat from them.
24:14And now fear the lord, and serve him in straightness and in righteousness, and remove the alien gods which your fathers served on the other side of the river, and in Egypt, and serve to the lord!
24:15But if it is not pleasing to you to serve to the lord, choose to yourselves today whom you should serve! whether to the gods of your fathers, to the ones on the other side of the river, or whether to the gods of the Amorites, in which you dwell upon their land. But I and my house, will serve to the lord!
24:16And responding the people said, May it not be to us to leave the lord so as to serve other gods.
24:17The lord our God, he led us and our fathers from out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and as many as these great signs he did to us, and guarded us in all the way which we went by it, and among all the nations which we went through them.
24:18And the lord cast out all the nations, and the Amorite dwelling in the land, from our face. But also we will serve to the lord, for this one is our God.
24:19And Joshua said to all the people, In no way shall you be able to serve to the lord (for he is holy, and God is jealous, this one shall not spare your violations of the law, and your sins)
24:20when ever you should abandon the lord, and should serve alien gods. And coming he shall afflict you, and shall completely consume you, because he did good to you.
24:21And the people said to Joshua, No, but to the lord we shall serve.
24:22And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses according to yourselves that you yourselves chose the lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
24:23And now, remove the alien gods, the ones among you, and straighten the heart to the lord God of Israel!
24:24And the people said to Joshua, To the lord our God we shall serve, and of his voice we shall hearken.
24:25And Joshua ordained a covenant with the people in that day. And he gave to them the law and judgment in Shechem.
24:26And Joshua wrote these things in a scroll of the law of God. And Joshua took a great stone and set it there under the terebinth tree before the lord.
24:27And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone will be to you for a testimony; for it has heard all the things being said by the lord, as much as he spoke to you today. And this will be in you for a testimony unto the last of the days, when ever you should lie to the lord your God.
24:28And Joshua sent the people each to his place.
24:29And it came to pass after those things Joshua the son of Nun died, a servant of the lord who was a hundred ten years old.
24:30And they entombed him by the borders of his inheritance in Timmnath-serah, in mount Ephraim, from the north of the mountain of Gaash.
24:31And Israel served to the lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders, as many as dragged on in time after Joshua, and as many as beheld all the works of the lord, as much as he did to Israel.
24:32And the sons of Israel took up the bones of Joseph from out of Egypt, and they buried them in Shechem, in the portion of the field of which Jacob acquired from the Amorites dwelling in Shechem for a hundred ewe-lambs, and he gave it to Joseph for a portion.
24:33And Eleazar the son of Aaron the chief priest came to an end; and he was entombed in Gabath of Phinehas his son, which he gave to him in mount Ephraim.