Choose Whom You Will Serve

^14 (A)“Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. ^(B)Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. ^15 (C)And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, ^(D)choose this day whom you will serve, whether ^(E)the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or ^(F)the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. ^(G)But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

^12 (A)And they abandoned the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt. ^(B)They went after other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were around them, and ^(C)bowed down to them. ^(D)And they provoked the Lord to anger.