I chose him, and he will instruct his children and his household after him to keep the way of the Lord by doing righteousness and justice, so that the Lord may bring to Abraham what He promised him.”
And he shall cause the house to be scraped all around, and they shall pour out the plaster that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place.
If the disease comes again and breaks out in the house after he has taken away the stones and after he has scraped the house and after it is plastered,
If it is displeasing to you to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve, if it should be the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites’ land where you are now living. Yet as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”