重申耶和华的约

24 约书亚在示剑招聚以色列各支派,然后召来以色列的长老、族长、审判官和官长。他们一同站在上帝面前。 约书亚对全体民众说:“以色列的上帝耶和华这样说,‘从前你们的祖先,包括亚伯拉罕和拿鹤二人的父亲他拉,住在幼发拉底河那边拜别的神明。 我把你们的祖先亚伯拉罕从幼发拉底河那边带出来,领他走遍迦南,使他人丁兴旺。我把以撒赐给他, 把雅各和以扫赐给以撒,把西珥山赐给以扫作产业,雅各和他的子孙则去了埃及。 后来,我差遣摩西和亚伦去埃及,并用瘟疫攻击埃及人,把你们领出来。 我引领你们的祖先离开埃及来到红海的时候,埃及人带领战车骑兵追了上来。 你们的祖先大声呼求我,我就降下黑暗,把你们和埃及人分开,又用海水淹没埃及人。你们亲眼见过我在埃及的作为。后来,你们在旷野度过了一段漫长的岁月。 我领你们来到约旦河东边亚摩利人居住的地方。他们跟你们争战,我把他们交在你们手中,使你们占领他们的土地作自己的产业。我把他们从你们面前全部消灭。 那时,摩押王西拨的儿子巴勒起兵攻打你们,并派人去召比珥的儿子巴兰来咒诅你们。 10 我不但没有听巴兰的话,反而使他为你们连连祝福。这样,我从巴勒手中救了你们。 11 你们过了约旦河来到耶利哥。耶利哥人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、迦南人、赫人、革迦撒人、希未人和耶布斯人都跟你们交战,但我把他们交在你们手中。 12 我差黄蜂飞在你们前面,把亚摩利的两个王从你们面前赶走,没有动用你们一刀一弓。 13 你们没有开垦土地,也没有建造城邑,但我赐给你们土地和城邑,使你们住在其中,享用别人栽种的葡萄园和橄榄园的果子。’

14 “所以,你们要敬畏耶和华,诚心诚意地事奉祂,摒弃你们祖先在幼发拉底河那边和在埃及所拜的神明,专心事奉耶和华。 15 如果你们不愿意事奉耶和华,今天就选择你们的神明吧,或大河那边你们祖先事奉的神明,或你们这里亚摩利人的神明。至于我和我全家,我们必事奉耶和华。”

16 民众答道:“我们决不背弃耶和华去事奉别的神明, 17 因为我们的上帝耶和华曾领我们和我们的祖先脱离埃及人的奴役,在我们眼前行大神迹,一路保护我们安然经过列邦。 18 耶和华把这地方的亚摩利人等外族人从我们面前赶走了,我们必事奉祂,因为祂是我们的上帝。”

19 约书亚说:“你们不能事奉耶和华,祂是一位圣洁的上帝,祂痛恨不贞,必不赦免你们的过犯和罪恶。 20 如果你们背弃耶和华,去拜外族的神明,尽管祂曾经恩待你们,也必降祸给你们,毁灭你们。” 21 民众答道:“不,我们一定要事奉耶和华。” 22 约书亚说:“现在你们自己作证,你们已选择事奉耶和华。”民众答道:“我们愿意自己作证。” 23 约书亚说:“这样,你们现在就要摒弃你们中间的外族神明,专心归向以色列的上帝耶和华。” 24 民众答道:“我们必事奉我们的上帝耶和华,听从祂的话。” 25 当天约书亚与民众立约,在示剑为他们订立律例和典章。 26 约书亚把这些话都写在上帝的律法书上,又把一块大石头竖立在耶和华圣所旁边的橡树下。 27 然后,他对民众说:“看啊,这块石头可以为我们作证,它听到了耶和华所吩咐我们的话。如果你们背弃上帝,它必作证。” 28 于是,约书亚命民众各自返回自己的地方。

约书亚去世

29 后来,耶和华的仆人、嫩的儿子约书亚去世了,享年一百一十岁。 30 以色列人把他葬在他的土地上,就是在迦实山北边、以法莲山区的亭拿·西拉。

31 约书亚在世的时候,以色列人都事奉耶和华。他死后,在那些经历过耶和华奇妙作为的长老还健在期间,以色列人仍事奉耶和华。

32 以色列人把从埃及带出来的约瑟的骸骨葬在示剑,在从前雅各用一百块银子向哈抹的子孙买的那块地里。哈抹是示剑的父亲。后来那块地成了约瑟子孙的产业。

33 亚伦的儿子以利亚撒也死了,他们把他葬在他儿子非尼哈分到的以法莲山区的基比亚。

What God has done

24 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders of Israel, its leaders, judges, and officers. They presented themselves before God. Then Joshua said to the entire people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates. They served other gods. Among them was Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. I took Abraham your ancestor from the other side of the Euphrates. I led him around through the whole land of Canaan. I added to his descendants and gave him Isaac. To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Mount Seir to Esau to take over. But Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. Then I sent Moses and Aaron. I plagued Egypt with what I did to them. After that I brought you out. I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, and you came to the sea. The Egyptians chased your ancestors with chariots and horses to the Reed Sea.[a] Then they cried for help to the Lord. So he set darkness between you and the Egyptians. He brought the sea down on them, and it covered them. With your own eyes you saw what I did to the Egyptians. You lived in the desert for a long time.

“Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived on the other side of the Jordan. They attacked you, but I gave them into your power, and you took over their land. I wiped them out before you. Then Moab’s King Balak, Zippor’s son, set out to attack Israel. He summoned Balaam, Beor’s son, to curse you. 10 But I wasn’t willing to listen to Balaam, so he actually blessed you. I rescued you from his power. 11 Then you crossed over the Jordan. You came to Jericho, and the citizens of Jericho attacked you. They were Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites. But I gave them into your power. 12 I sent the hornet[b] before you. It drove them out before you and did the same to the two kings of the Amorites. It wasn’t your sword or bow that did this. 13 I gave you land on which you hadn’t toiled and cities that you hadn’t built. You settled in them and are enjoying produce from vineyards and olive groves that you didn’t plant.

Challenge to be faithful

14 “So now, revere the Lord. Serve him honestly and faithfully. Put aside the gods that your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and serve the Lord. 15 But if it seems wrong in your opinion to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. Choose the gods whom your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live. But my family and I will serve the Lord.”

16 Then the people answered, “God forbid that we ever leave the Lord to serve other gods! 17 The Lord is our God. He is the one who brought us and our ancestors up from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. He has done these mighty signs in our sight. He has protected us the whole way we’ve gone and in all the nations through which we’ve passed. 18 The Lord has driven out all the nations before us, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the Lord, because he is our God.”

19 Then Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve the Lord, because he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He won’t forgive your rebellion and your sins. 20 If you leave the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn around and do you harm and finish you off, in spite of having done you good in the past.”

21 Then the people said to Joshua, “No! The Lord is the one we will serve.”

22 So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the Lord.”

They said, “We are witnesses!”

23 “So now put aside the foreign gods that are among you. Focus your hearts on the Lord, the God of Israel.”

24 The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and will obey him.”

Joshua makes a covenant

25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people and established just rule for them at Shechem. 26 Joshua wrote these words in God’s Instruction scroll. Then he took a large stone and put it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the Lord. 27 Joshua said to all the people, “This stone will serve here as a witness against us, because it has heard all the Lord’s words that he spoke to us. It will serve as a witness against you in case you aren’t true to your God.” 28 Then Joshua sent the people away to each one’s legacy.

Three important graves

29 After these events, Joshua, Nun’s son, the Lord’s servant, died. He was 110. 30 They buried him within the border of his own legacy, in Timnath-serah in the highlands of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash. 31 Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua. They had known every act the Lord had done for Israel.

32 The Israelites had brought up the bones of Joseph from Egypt. They buried them at Shechem in the portion of field that Jacob had purchased for one hundred qesitahs from the descendants of Hamor the father of Shechem. They became a legacy of the descendants of Joseph.

33 Eleazar son of Aaron died. They buried him at Gibeah, which belonged to his son Phinehas. It had been given to him in the highlands of Ephraim.

Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:6 Or Red Sea
  2. Joshua 24:12 Heb uncertain

Josué se despide

24 Luego Josué reunió a todas las tribus de Israel en Siquén. Convocó a todos los ancianos líderes de Israel, a los jefes, a los jueces y a los oficiales. Ellos se presentaron ante Dios.

Luego Josué le dijo a todo el pueblo:

—Esto es lo que el SEÑOR, el Dios de Israel dice: Hace mucho tiempo sus antepasados, incluido Téraj, el padre de Abraham y de Najor, vivían al otro lado del río Éufrates y servían a otros dioses. Luego, yo traje a su antepasado Abraham desde el otro lado del río Éufrates y lo guié a través de toda la tierra de Canaán, le di muchos descendientes. Le di a Isaac y a Isaac le di a Jacob y a Esaú. A Esaú le di las montañas de Seír como posesión, pero Jacob y sus hijos se fueron a Egipto. Luego envié a Moisés y a Aarón, y con lo que hice allí metí en graves dificultades a los egipcios, y después de eso yo los saqué a ustedes. Cuando saqué de Egipto a sus antepasados, ustedes llegaron al mar, y los egipcios persiguieron a sus antepasados con carros de combate y caballería hasta el mar Rojo. Sus antepasados me pidieron ayuda a gritos. Entonces yo, el SEÑOR, puse oscuridad entre ustedes y los egipcios, eché el mar sobre ellos y los cubrí. Ustedes vieron con sus propios ojos lo que le hice a Egipto.

»Luego ustedes vivieron en el desierto por largo tiempo. Después yo los llevé a la tierra de los amorreos que vivían al otro lado del río Jordán. Ellos pelearon contra ustedes, pero yo hice que ustedes los derrotaran y tomaran posesión de su tierra; yo los destruí a ellos ante ustedes. Luego Balac, hijo de Zipor y rey de Moab, se preparó para luchar contra Israel. Mandó a traer a Balán hijo de Beor, para que los maldijera, 10 pero yo no le hice caso a Balán. Así que él tuvo que bendecirlos y yo los protegí a ustedes de su poder. 11 Cuando ustedes cruzaron el río Jordán y vinieron a Jericó, los habitantes de Jericó lucharon contra ustedes, así como lo hicieron también los amorreos, los ferezeos, los cananeos, los hititas, los gergeseos, los heveos y los jebuseos, pero yo hice que ustedes los vencieran. 12 Envié avispas[a] delante de ustedes, y ellas expulsaron a los dos reyes amorreos ante ustedes. No fue por sus espadas ni por sus arcos. 13 Yo les di a ustedes una tierra que no habían trabajado y ciudades que no habían construido, en las cuales viven ahora. Comen la fruta de viñedos y de olivos que ustedes no plantaron.

14 Entonces Josué le dijo a la gente:

—Así que ahora respeten al SEÑOR y sírvanle total y fielmente. Quiten de entre ustedes los dioses que sus antepasados adoraban al otro lado del río Éufrates y en Egipto, y sirvan al SEÑOR. 15 Si no desean servir al SEÑOR, decidan hoy a quien servirán, ya sea a los dioses a los que sus antepasados servían al otro lado del río Éufrates, o a los dioses de los amorreos en cuya tierra viven. Pero yo y mi familia serviremos al SEÑOR.

16 Entonces la gente contestó:

—Nosotros nunca dejaremos al SEÑOR para servir a otros dioses. 17 Pues el SEÑOR nuestro Dios es el que nos trajo a nosotros y a nuestros antepasados de la tierra de Egipto donde éramos esclavos, y él es quien hizo esos grandes milagros ante nuestros ojos. Él nos protegió por todo nuestro viaje y a través de todas las naciones por cuyas tierras atravesamos. 18 El SEÑOR expulsó ante nuestros ojos a todos los pueblos y a los amorreos que vivían en la tierra. También serviremos al SEÑOR, porque él es nuestro Dios.

19 Entonces Josué le dijo a la gente:

—Ustedes no podrán servir al SEÑOR, pues él es un Dios santo. Él es un Dios celoso. Él no perdonará sus rebeliones y sus pecados. 20 Si ustedes abandonan al SEÑOR y sirven a dioses distintos, entonces él se volverá contra ustedes y les traerá desastres y los destruirá, aun cuando ya los ha hecho prósperos.

21 Entonces el pueblo le dijo a Josué:

—¡No! ¡Nosotros serviremos al SEÑOR!

22 Entonces Josué dijo al pueblo:

—Observen a toda esta gente y obsérvense ustedes mismos. Todos ustedes ya saben y están de acuerdo que han decidido servir al SEÑOR, ¿cierto? Ustedes mismos son sus propios testigos, ¿verdad?

Y ellos dijeron:

—Somos testigos.

23 Así que Josué dijo:

—Ahora quiten los otros dioses de entre ustedes y vuélvanse de todo corazón al SEÑOR, el Dios de Israel.

24 Entonces la gente le dijo a Josué:

—Serviremos al SEÑOR nuestro Dios y lo obedeceremos.

25 Así que ese día Josué hizo un pacto con el pueblo. Le hizo estatutos y leyes en Siquén. 26 Josué escribió esas leyes en el libro de las enseñanzas de Dios. Luego tomó una roca grande y la puso debajo de la encina que estaba en el santuario del SEÑOR. 27 Entonces Josué le dijo a la gente:

—Miren, esta piedra será testigo ante nosotros, porque ha escuchado todas las palabras que el SEÑOR nos ha dicho. Así que será testigo ante ustedes, para que no mientan a su Dios.

28 Entonces Josué despidió a la gente, cada uno a su propia tierra.

Muerte de Josué

(Jue 2:6-10)

29 Después de esto murió Josué hijo de Nun, el siervo del SEÑOR. Tenía 110 años de edad. 30 Fue enterrado en su propia tierra, en Timnat Sera, que está en las montañas de Efraín, al norte del monte Gaas.

31 Israel sirvió al SEÑOR durante la vida de Josué y la de los ancianos que vivieron después de su muerte, quienes conocían toda la obra que el SEÑOR hizo por Israel.

Entierro de los restos de José

32 Los huesos de José, que los israelitas trajeron de Egipto, fueron enterrados en Siquén en el terreno que Jacob había comprado por 100 monedas de plata[b] a los hijos de Jamor, el padre de Siquén. Esta tierra se convirtió en la herencia de los descendientes de José.

33 Eleazar hijo de Aarón murió, y lo enterraron en Guibeá, el pueblo de su hijo Finés, que le había sido dado en las montañas de Efraín.

Footnotes

  1. 24:12 avispas Otras traducciones posibles: ángel del Señor o Mi gran poder.
  2. 24:32 monedas de plata En hebreo: 100 quesitas, una unidad monetaria de peso y valor desconocido para nosotros.

The Covenant Renewed at Shechem

24 Then Joshua assembled(A) all the tribes of Israel at Shechem.(B) He summoned(C) the elders,(D) leaders, judges and officials of Israel,(E) and they presented themselves before God.

Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor,(F) lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.(G) But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan(H) and gave him many descendants.(I) I gave him Isaac,(J) and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.(K) I assigned the hill country of Seir(L) to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.(M)

“‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron,(N) and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you out.(O) When I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea,(P) and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen[a](Q) as far as the Red Sea.[b](R) But they cried(S) to the Lord for help, and he put darkness(T) between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them.(U) You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians.(V) Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.(W)

“‘I brought you to the land of the Amorites(X) who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession of their land.(Y) When Balak son of Zippor,(Z) the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor(AA) to put a curse on you.(AB) 10 But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you(AC) again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.

11 “‘Then you crossed the Jordan(AD) and came to Jericho.(AE) The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites,(AF) Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites,(AG) but I gave them into your hands.(AH) 12 I sent the hornet(AI) ahead of you, which drove them out(AJ) before you—also the two Amorite kings. You did not do it with your own sword and bow.(AK) 13 So I gave you a land(AL) on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’(AM)

14 “Now fear the Lord(AN) and serve him with all faithfulness.(AO) Throw away the gods(AP) your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt,(AQ) and serve the Lord. 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites,(AR) in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household,(AS) we will serve the Lord.”(AT)

16 Then the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake(AU) the Lord to serve other gods! 17 It was the Lord our God himself who brought us and our parents up out of Egypt, from that land of slavery,(AV) and performed those great signs(AW) before our eyes. He protected us on our entire journey and among all the nations through which we traveled. 18 And the Lord drove out(AX) before us all the nations,(AY) including the Amorites, who lived in the land.(AZ) We too will serve the Lord, because he is our God.(BA)

19 Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God;(BB) he is a jealous God.(BC) He will not forgive(BD) your rebellion(BE) and your sins. 20 If you forsake the Lord(BF) and serve foreign gods, he will turn(BG) and bring disaster(BH) on you and make an end of you,(BI) after he has been good to you.”

21 But the people said to Joshua, “No! We will serve the Lord.”

22 Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses(BJ) against yourselves that you have chosen(BK) to serve the Lord.”

“Yes, we are witnesses,(BL)” they replied.

23 “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods(BM) that are among you and yield your hearts(BN) to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

24 And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”(BO)

25 On that day Joshua made a covenant(BP) for the people, and there at Shechem(BQ) he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.(BR) 26 And Joshua recorded(BS) these things in the Book of the Law of God.(BT) Then he took a large stone(BU) and set it up there under the oak(BV) near the holy place of the Lord.

27 “See!” he said to all the people. “This stone(BW) will be a witness(BX) against us. It has heard all the words the Lord has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue(BY) to your God.”(BZ)

28 Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.(CA)

Buried in the Promised Land(CB)

29 After these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died(CC) at the age of a hundred and ten.(CD) 30 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah[c](CE) in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.(CF)

31 Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders(CG) who outlived him and who had experienced everything the Lord had done for Israel.

32 And Joseph’s bones,(CH) which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,(CI) were buried at Shechem in the tract of land(CJ) that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[d] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

33 And Eleazar son of Aaron(CK) died and was buried at Gibeah,(CL) which had been allotted to his son Phinehas(CM) in the hill country(CN) of Ephraim.

Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:6 Or charioteers
  2. Joshua 24:6 Or the Sea of Reeds
  3. Joshua 24:30 Also known as Timnath Heres (see Judges 2:9)
  4. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.

24 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:

10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

11 And you 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.

12 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.

13 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.

14 Now therefore fear the Lord, 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 Lord.

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, 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 Lord.

16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;

17 For the Lord 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:

18 And the Lord drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord; for he is our God.

19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

20 If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the Lord.

22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.

24 And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

26 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 Lord.

27 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 Lord which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

31 And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.

32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.