Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meal offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of Yahweh our Elohim that is before his tabernacle.
And if it seem evil unto you to serve Yahweh, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the elohim which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the elohim of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.
For Yahweh our Elohim, 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: