Psalm 78:1-8

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Tell the Coming Generation

A Maskil^[a] of ^(A)Asaph.

78 ^(B)Give ear, O my people, to my teaching;
    incline your ears to the words of my mouth!
²^(C)I will open my mouth ^(D)in a parable;
    I will utter dark sayings from of old,
³things that we have heard and known,
    that our ^(E)fathers have told us.
⁴We will not ^(F)hide them from their children,
    but ^(G)tell to the coming generation
the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might,
    and ^(H)the wonders that he has done.

⁵He established ^(I)a testimony in ^(J)Jacob
    and appointed a law in ^(K)Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
    to teach to their children,
⁶that ^(L)the next generation might know them,
    the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
⁷    so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget ^(M)the works of God,
    but ^(N)keep his commandments;
⁸and that they should not be ^(O)like their fathers,
    ^(P)a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation ^(Q)whose heart was not steadfast,
    whose spirit was not faithful to God.

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Psalm 78:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term

Joshua 24:25-33

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²⁵So Joshua ^(A)made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place ^(B)statutes and rules for them at Shechem. ²⁶And Joshua ^(C)wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And ^(D)he took a large stone and set it up there ^(E)under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. ²⁷And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, ^(F)this stone shall be a witness against us, for ^(G)it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.” ²⁸So Joshua ^(H)sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

Joshua's Death and Burial

²⁹^(I)After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old. ³⁰And they buried him in his own inheritance at ^(J)Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

³¹^(K)Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua ^(L)and had known all the work that the Lord did for Israel.

³²^(M)As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land ^(N)that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.^[a] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

³³And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of ^(O)Phinehas his son, which had been given him in ^(P)the hill country of Ephraim.

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Joshua 24:32 Hebrew for a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

1 Corinthians 14:20-25

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²⁰Brothers, ^(A)do not be children in your thinking. ^(B)Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be ^(C)mature. ²¹^(D)In the Law it is written, ^(E)“By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.” ²²Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign^[a] not for unbelievers but for believers. ²³If, therefore, the whole church comes together and all speak in tongues, and outsiders or unbelievers enter, ^(F)will they not say that you are out of your minds? ²⁴But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, ²⁵^(G)the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, ^(H)falling on his face, he will worship God and ^(I)declare that God is really among you.