Joshua 24:1

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Tribes Renew the Covenant

24 ^[a]Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God.

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24.1 The full gathering of the tribes at Shechem for a renewal of the covenant sealed the conquest and the final apportioning of the land. It seems to indicate the conversion to the worship of Yahweh of those Hebrews who did not go down to Egypt.

Joshua 24:1 in all English translations

Joshua 24:25-26

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁵So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem. ²⁶And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the Lord.

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