These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Joshua 24
Tanakh 33 verses
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And gathered all the tribes of to , and called for the elders of , and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before .
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- 2 And said unto all the people: ‘Thus saith , the of : Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of , and the father of Nahor; and they served other Elohims.
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And I took your father from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of , and multiplied his seed, and gave him .
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And I gave unto and ; and I gave unto mount Seir, to possess it; and and his children went down into .
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And I sent and , and I plagued , according to that which I did in the midst thereof; and afterward I brought you out.
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- 6 And I brought your fathers out of ; and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea.
- 7 And when they cried out unto , He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in ; and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.
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And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that dwelt beyond the ; and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
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Then Balak the son of Zippor, of , arose and fought against ; and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to you.
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- 10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he even blessed you; so I delivered you out of his hand.
- 11 And ye went over the , and came unto ; and the men of 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.
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And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
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And I gave you a land whereon thou hadst not laboured, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and olive-yards which ye planted not do ye eat.
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Now therefore , and Him in sincerity and in ; and put away the Elohims which your fathers served beyond the River, and in ; and ye .
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Joshua 24:23 1 Samuel 12:24 Deuteronomy 10:12 Deuteronomy 18:13 Ezekiel 23:3 Genesis 35:2 2 Corinthians 1:12 Joshua 24:2 Ezekiel 20:7-8 Hosea 3:5 Job 1:1 Philippians 1:10 John 4:23-24 Leviticus 17:7 Acts 9:31 Job 28:28 Ephesians 6:24 Exodus 20:3-4 Luke 8:15 Psalm 111:10 Psalm 119:80 2 Kings 20:3 Genesis 17:1 Ezra 9:11 Psalm 130:4 Ezekiel 20:18 Psalm 119:1 Genesis 20:5-6 Amos 5:25-26 - 15 And if it seem evil unto you to , choose you this day whom ye will ; whether the Elohims which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the Elohims of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will .’
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And the people answered and said: ‘Far be it from us that we should forsake , to other Elohims;
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for our , He it is that brought us and our fathers up out of the land of , from the house of bondage, and that did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed;
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and drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land; therefore we also will ; for He is our .’
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And said unto the people: ‘Ye cannot ; for He is a ; He is a jealous ; He will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.
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Exodus 23:21 Leviticus 19:2 Exodus 20:5 Psalm 99:5 Psalm 99:9 1 Samuel 6:20 Isaiah 5:16 Exodus 34:14 Luke 14:25-33 Joshua 24:23 Exodus 34:7 1 Samuel 3:14 Matthew 6:24 1 Corinthians 10:20-22 2 Chronicles 36:16 Isaiah 6:3-5 Isaiah 30:15 Habakkuk 1:13 Isaiah 27:11 Leviticus 20:26 Isaiah 30:11 Leviticus 10:3 Ruth 1:15 - 20 If ye forsake , and strange Elohims, then He will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that He hath done you good.’
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And the people said unto : ‘Nay; but we will .’
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And said unto the people: ‘Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you , to Him.—And they said: ‘We are witnesses.’—
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- 23 Now therefore put away the strange Elohims which are among you, and incline your unto , the of .’
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And the people said unto : ‘The our will we , and unto His voice will we hearken.’
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- 25 So made a with the people that day, and set them a and an in .
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And wrote these words in the book of the of ; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the of .
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And said unto all the people: ‘Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of which He spoke unto us; it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your .’
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So sent the people away, every man unto his inheritance.
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And it came to pass after these things, that the son of Nun, the of , died, being a hundred and ten years old.
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill-country of , on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
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- 31 And served all the days of , and all the days of the elders that outlived , and had known all the work of , that He had wrought for .
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And the bones of , which the children of brought up out of , buried they in , in the parcel of ground which bought of the sons of Hamor the father of for a hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of the children of .
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- 33 And Eleazar the son of died; and they buried him in the Hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount .