Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the [a]River, namely, (A)Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods. Then (B)I took your father Abraham from beyond the [b]River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and (C)multiplied his [c]descendants and gave him (D)Isaac. To Isaac I gave (E)Jacob and Esau, and (F)to Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but (G)Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:2 I.e. Euphrates
  2. Joshua 24:3 I.e. Euphrates
  3. Joshua 24:3 Lit seed