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Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
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But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed
you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
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And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho:
and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites,
and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your
hand.
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And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you,
even
the two
kings of the Amorites;
but
not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
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And I have given you a land
for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards
and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
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Now therefore fear the L
ORD
, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods
which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the L
ORD
.
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the L
ORD
, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether
the gods which your fathers served that
were
on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the L
ORD
.
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And the
people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the L
ORD
, to serve other gods;
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For
the L
ORD
our God, 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:
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And the L
ORD
drave out
from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land:
therefore
will we also
serve the L
ORD
; for he
is
our God.
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And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the L
ORD
:
for he
is
an holy God; he
is
a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
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If ye forsake the L
ORD
, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume
you, after that he hath done you good.
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And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve
the L
ORD
.
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And Joshua said unto the people, Ye
are
witnesses against yourselves that ye have
chosen you the L
ORD
, to serve him. And they said,
We are
witnesses.
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Now therefore put away,
said he,
the strange gods which
are
among you, and incline your heart unto the L
ORD
God of Israel.
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And the people said unto Joshua, The L
ORD
our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in
Shechem.
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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set
it up there under an oak, that
was
by the sanctuary of the L
ORD
.
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And Joshua said unto all the
people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the L
ORD
which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
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So Joshua
let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
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And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the L
ORD
,
died,
being
an hundred and ten years old.
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance
in Timnath-serah, which
is
in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
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And Israel
served the L
ORD
all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and
which had known all the works of the L
ORD
, that he had done for Israel.
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