1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. 4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. 6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea. 7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season. 8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: 10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. 11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. 12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
14 ¶ Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: 18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. 21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Now therefore put away, said he , the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 ¶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. 28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
29 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
32 ¶ And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
1 congregavitque Iosue omnes tribus Israhel in Sychem
et vocavit maiores natu ac principes et iudices et magistros
steteruntque in conspectu Domini
2 et ad populum sic locutus est haec dicit Dominus Deus Israhel
trans fluvium habitaverunt patres vestri ab initio
Thare pater Abraham et Nahor
servieruntque diis alienis
3 tuli ergo patrem vestrum Abraham de Mesopotamiae finibus
et adduxi eum in terram Chanaan
multiplicavique semen eius
4 et dedi ei Isaac
illique rursum dedi Iacob et Esau
e quibus Esau dedi montem Seir ad possidendum
Iacob vero et filii eius descenderunt in Aegyptum
5 misique Mosen et Aaron
et percussi Aegyptum multis signis atque portentis
6 eduxique vos et patres vestros de Aegypto
et venistis ad mare
persecutique sunt Aegyptii patres vestros cum curribus et equitatu
usque ad mare Rubrum
7 clamaverunt autem ad Dominum filii Israhel
qui posuit tenebras inter vos et Aegyptios
et adduxit super eos mare
et operuit illos
viderunt oculi vestri cuncta quae in Aegypto fecerim
et habitastis in solitudine multo tempore
8 et introduxi vos ad terram Amorrei
qui habitabat trans Iordanem
cumque pugnarent contra vos tradidi eos in manus vestras
et possedistis terram eorum atque interfecistis illos
9 surrexit autem Balac filius Sepphor rex Moab
et pugnavit contra Israhelem
misitque et vocavit Balaam filium Beor ut malediceret vobis
10 et ego nolui audire eum sed e contrario per illum benedixi vobis
et liberavi vos de manu eius
11 transistisque Iordanem et venistis ad Hiericho
pugnaveruntque contra vos viri civitatis eius
Amorreus et Ferezeus et Chananeus
et Hettheus et Gergeseus et Eveus et Iebuseus
et tradidi illos in manus vestras
12 misique ante vos crabrones
et eieci eos de locis suis duos reges Amorreorum
non in gladio et arcu tuo
13 dedique vobis terram in qua non laborastis
et urbes quas non aedificastis ut habitaretis in eis
vineas et oliveta quae non plantastis
14 nunc ergo timete Dominum
et servite ei perfecto corde atque verissimo
et auferte deos quibus servierunt patres vestri in Mesopotamia et in
Aegypto
ac servite Domino
15 sin autem malum vobis videtur ut Domino serviatis
optio vobis datur eligite hodie quod placet
cui potissimum servire debeatis
utrum diis quibus servierunt patres vestri in Mesopotamia
an diis Amorreorum in quorum terra habitatis
ego autem et domus mea serviemus Domino
16 responditque populus et ait
absit a nobis ut relinquamus Dominum et serviamus diis alienis
17 Dominus Deus noster ipse eduxit nos et patres nostros
de terra Aegypti de domo servitutis
fecitque videntibus nobis signa ingentia
et custodivit nos in omni via per quam ambulavimus
et in cunctis populis per quos transivimus
18 et eiecit universas gentes
Amorreum habitatorem terrae quam nos intravimus
serviemus igitur Domino quia ipse est Deus noster
19 dixitque Iosue ad populum non poteritis servire Domino
Deus enim sanctus et fortis aemulator est
nec ignoscet sceleribus vestris atque peccatis
20 si dimiseritis Dominum et servieritis diis alienis
convertet se et adfliget vos atque subvertet
postquam vobis praestiterit bona
21 dixitque populus ad Iosue
nequaquam ita ut loqueris erit sed Domino serviemus
22 et Iosue ad populum testes inquit vos estis
quia ipsi elegeritis vobis Dominum ut serviatis ei
responderuntque testes
23 nunc ergo ait auferte deos alienos de medio vestrum
et inclinate corda vestra ad Dominum Deum Israhel
24 dixitque populus ad Iosue
Domino Deo nostro serviemus oboedientes praeceptis eius
25 percussit igitur Iosue in die illo foedus
et proposuit populo praecepta atque iudicia in Sychem
26 scripsitque omnia verba haec in
volumine legis Dei
et tulit lapidem pergrandem
posuitque eum subter quercum quae erat in sanctuario
Domini
27 et dixit ad omnem populum en lapis iste erit vobis in testimonium
quod audierit omnia verba Domini quae locutus est
vobis
ne forte postea negare velitis et mentiri Domino Deo vestro
28 dimisitque populum singulos in possessionem suam
29 et post haec mortuus est Iosue filius Nun servus Domini centum decem annorum
30 sepelieruntque eum in finibus possessionis suae in
Thamnathsare
quae sita est in monte Ephraim
a septentrionali parte montis Gaas
31 servivitque Israhel Domino cunctis diebus Iosue
et seniorum qui longo vixerunt tempore post Iosue
et qui noverant omnia opera Domini quae fecerat in Israhel
32 ossa quoque Ioseph quae tulerant filii Israhel de Aegypto
sepelierunt in Sychem in parte agri
quem emerat Iacob a filiis Emmor patris Sychem centum novellis ovibus
et fuit in possessione filiorum Ioseph
33 Eleazar quoque filius Aaron mortuus est
et sepelierunt eum in Gaab
Finees filii eius
quae data est ei in monte Ephraim
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