² And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ^(A)‘Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of ^[a]the River in old times; and ^(B)they served other gods.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, ^(A)choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether ^(B)the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of ^[a]the River, or ^(C)the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. ^(D)But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”

³⁰ And now you have surely gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you ^(A)steal my gods?”

³ and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: “Your ^[a]birth ^(A)and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; ^(B)your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

⁵ And you shall answer and say before the Lord your God: ‘My father was ^(A)a ^[a]Syrian, ^(B)about to perish, and ^(C)he went down to Egypt and ^[b]dwelt there, ^(D)few in number; and there he became a nation, ^(E)great, mighty, and populous.

⁴ So they gave Jacob all the foreign ^[a]gods which were in their hands, and the ^(A)earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under ^(B)the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.

⁵³ The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father ^(A)judge between us.” And Jacob ^(B)swore by ^(C)the ^[a]Fear of his father Isaac.

³² With whomever you find your gods, ^(A)do not let him live. In the presence of our brethren, identify what I have of yours and take it with you.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.