Joshua 24 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And Yehoshua gathered all the tribes of Yisra’ĕ

² And Yehoshua said to all the people, “Thus said יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

³ ‘So I took your father Aḇ

⁴ ‘And to Yitsḥ

⁵ ‘Then I sent Mosheh and Aharon, and plagued Mitsrayim, as I did in their midst. And afterward I brought you out.

⁶ ‘And I brought your fathers out of Mitsrayim, and you came to the sea. And the Mitsrians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Sea of Reeds.

⁷ ‘And they cried out to יהוה, and He put thick darkness between you and the Mitsrians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them. And your eyes saw what I did in Mitsrayim. And you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.

⁸ ‘And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Yardĕ

⁹ ‘And Balaq son of Tsippor, sovereign of Mo’aḇ

¹⁰ ‘But I refused to listen to Bilʽ

¹¹ ‘And you passed over the Yardĕ

¹² ‘And I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two sovereigns of the Amorites, but not with your sword or with your bow.

¹³ ‘And I gave you a land for which you did not labour, and cities which you did not build. And you dwell in them, you eat of the vineyards and olive-trees which you did not plant.’

¹⁴ “And now, fear יהוה, serve Him in perfection and in truth, and put away the mighty ones which your fathers served beyond the River and in Mitsrayim, and serve יהוה!

¹⁵ “And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve יהוה, choose for yourselves this day whom you are going to serve, whether the mighty ones which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But I and my house, we serve יהוה.”

¹⁶ And the people answered and said, “Far be it from us to forsake יהוה, to serve other mighty ones,

¹⁷ for יהוה  our Elohim is He who has brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Mitsrayim, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs before our eyes, and has guarded us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed.

¹⁸ “And יהוה  drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land. We too serve יהוה, for He is our Elohim.”

¹⁹ Then Yehoshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve יהוה, for He is a set-apart Elohim, a jealous Ě

²⁰ if you forsake יהוה  and shall serve mighty ones of a stranger. Then He shall turn back and do you evil and consume you, after He has been good to you.”

²¹ And the people said to Yehoshua, “No, but we do serve יהוה!”

²² Then Yehoshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen יהוה  for yourselves, to serve Him.” And they said, “Witnesses!”

²³ “And now, put away the mighty ones of the stranger which are in your midst, and incline your heart to יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

²⁴ And the people said to Yehoshua, “יהוה  our Elohim we serve, and His voice we obey.”

²⁵ And Yehoshua made a covenant with the people that day, and laid on them a law and a right-ruling in Sheḵ

²⁶ Then Yehoshua wrote these words in the Book of the Torah of Elohim. And he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the set-apart place of יהוה.

²⁷ And Yehoshua said to all the people, “See, this stone is a witness to us, for it has heard all the words of יהוה  which He spoke to us. And it shall be a witness against you, lest you lie against your Elohim.”

²⁸ Then Yehoshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

²⁹ And after these events it came to be that Yehoshua son of Nun, the servant of יהוה, died, one hundred and ten years old.

³⁰ And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Seraḥ

³¹ And Yisra’ĕ

³² And the bones of Yosĕ

³³ And Elʽ