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Joshua 24:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Joshua said to all the people, ‘This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Long ago your ancestors, including Terah,  the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River Euphrates and worshipped other gods.

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But if it doesn’t please you to worship the Lord, choose for yourselves today: Which will you worship #– #the gods your ancestors worshipped beyond the River Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living?  As for me and my family, we will worship the Lord.’


Now you have gone off because you long for your father’s family #– #but why have you stolen my gods? ’


You are to say, “This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hethite.


Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.


You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean.  He went down to Egypt with a few people and resided there as a foreigner.  There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.


Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.


The God of Abraham, and the gods  of Nahor #– #the gods of their father   #– #will judge between us.’ And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.


If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live!  Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.’ Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.


When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.


Terah lived for 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.


son of Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham,  son of Terah, son of Nahor,


Nahor lived for 29 years and fathered Terah.


These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.


Serug lived for 30 years and fathered Nahor.





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