King James Version

1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel at 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 to all the people, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the river ever since, Terach the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods." 3 And I took your father Abraham from beyond the river and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac. 4 And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau, and I gave to Esau the mountain of Seir to possess it, and Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. 5 And I will send Moses and Aaron, and I will strike Egypt as I did in its midst, and afterward, I brought you out. 6 And I will bring out your ancestors from Egypt, and you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued your ancestors with chariots and with horsemen at the Sea of Suph. 7 And they cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and He brought upon them the sea, and it covered them, and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt, and you stayed in the wilderness many days. 8 And I will bring you to the land of the Amorite, who dwells across the Jordan, and they will fight against you, and I will give them into your hand, and you will inherit their land, and I will destroy them from before you. 9 And Balak son of Zippor rose up, king of Moab, and he fought against Israel, and he sent and called for Balaam son of Beor to curse you. 10 And I did not agree to listen to Balaam, and he blessed you with a blessing, and I rescued you from his hand. 11 And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the inhabitants of Jericho, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, I gave into your hand. 12 And I sent the hornet before you, and it drove them out from before you, the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword and not with your bow. 13 And I gave you a land that you did not labor for, and cities that you did not build, and you dwell in them; vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant, you are eating. 14 And now fear the Lord and serve Him in purity and truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the river and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve, whether the gods that your fathers served beyond the river, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 16 And the people answered and said, "Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods." 17 For the LORD our God is the one who raised us and our fathers from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did great signs before our eyes and kept us in all the way that we went and among all the peoples through whom we passed. 18 And the Lord drove out all the nations and the Amorites who dwell in the land from before us; also we will serve the Lord, for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said to the people, "You will not be able to serve the Lord, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions and your sins." 20 For if you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, and turn, then He will be angry with you and destroy you after He has done good to you. 21 And the people said to Joshua, "No, for we will serve the LORD." 22 And Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves, that you have chosen for yourselves the Lord to serve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses." 23 And now remove the foreign gods that are among you and direct your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel. 24 And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God, and we will listen to His voice." 25 And Joshua cut a covenant with the people on that day, and he set for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that is by the sanctuary of the Lord. 27 And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness for us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord which He spoke to us, and it shall be among you as a witness, lest you deny your God." 28 And Joshua sent the people, each to his inheritance. 29 And it was after these words that Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of one hundred and ten years. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnat Serach, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. 31 And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who prolonged their days after Joshua and who knew all the work of the Lord that He did for Israel. 32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in the parcel of ground that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money, and it became an inheritance to the children of Joseph. 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given to him in the mountain of Ephraim.