Verse 23
Joshua 24:23
Bible in Basic English
23
Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/עַתָּ֕ה הָסִ֛ירוּ אֶת אֱלֹהֵ֥י הַ/נֵּכָ֖ר אֲשֶׁ֣ר בְּ/קִרְבְּ/כֶ֑ם וְ/הַטּוּ֙ אֶת לְבַבְ/כֶ֔ם אֶל יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל
English Translation
And now remove the foreign gods that are among you and direct your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
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Chapter 24 Context
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Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of...
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And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel: In t...
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And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of...
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And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his ch...
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And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took...
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I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fat...
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And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them...
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And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you,...
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Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam,...
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But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.
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11
Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites...
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And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with you...
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And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now...
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So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped b...
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And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servant...
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Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
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For it is the Lord our God (Elohim) who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out o...
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And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be...
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And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God...
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If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against y...
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And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
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And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision...
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Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God (Elohim...
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And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God (Elohim), and we will giv...
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So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
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And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God (Elohim); and he to...
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And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the wo...
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Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
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Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he...
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And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country...
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And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were s...
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And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth...
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Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hi...
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