1 Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.2 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, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.3 But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I assigned the hill country of Seir to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.5 "'Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you out.6 When I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen "as far as the Red Sea. [^2]7 But they cried to the LORD for help, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them. You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.8 "'I brought you to the land of the Amorites 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.9 When Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor to put a curse on you.10 But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.11 "'Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites, but I gave them into your hands.12 I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove them out before you —also the two Amorite kings. You did not do it with your own sword and bow.13 So I gave you a land 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.'14 "Now fear the LORD and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, 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, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."16 Then the people answered, "Far be it from us to forsake 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, and performed those great signs 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 before us all the nations, including the Amorites, who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because he is our God."19 Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD. He is a holy God; he is a jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.20 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, 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 against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD." "Yes, we are witnesses," they replied.23 "Now then," said Joshua, "throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel."24 And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and obey him."25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.26 And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the LORD.27 "See!" he said to all the people. "This stone will be a witness 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 to your God."28 Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.29 After these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of a hundred and ten.30 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah "in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.31 Israel served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced everything the LORD had done for Israel.32 And Joseph's bones, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver "from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph's descendants.33 And Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, which had been allotted to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

1 Congregavitque Josue omnes tribus Isral in Sichem, et vocavit majores natu, ac principes, et judices, et magistros : steteruntque in conspectu Domini, 2 et ad populum sic locutus est : Hc dicit Dominus Deus Isral : Trans fluvium habitaverunt patres vestri ab initio, Thare pater Abraham et Nachor : servieruntque diis alienis. 3 Tuli ergo patrem vestrum Abraham de Mesopotami finibus, et adduxi eum in terram Chanaan, multiplicavique semen ejus, 4 et dedi ei Isaac : illique rursum dedi Jacob et Esau. E quibus, Esau dedi montem Seir ad possidendum : Jacob vero et filii ejus descenderunt in gyptum. 5 Misique Moysen et Aaron, et percussi gyptum multis signis atque portentis. 6 Eduxique vos et patres vestros de gypto, et venistis ad mare : persecutique sunt gyptii patres vestros cum curribus et equitatu, usque ad mare Rubrum. 7 Clamaverunt autem ad Dominum filii Isral : qui posuit tenebras inter vos et gyptios, et adduxit super eos mare, et operuit eos. Viderunt oculi vestri cuncta qu in gypto fecerim, et habitastis in solitudine multo tempore : 8 et introduxi vos in terram Amorrhi, qui habitabat trans Jordanem. Cumque pugnarent contra vos, tradidi eos in manus vestras, et possedistis terram eorum, atque interfecistis eos. 9 Surrexit autem Balac filius Sephor rex Moab, et pugnavit contra Isralem. Misitque et vocavit Balaam filium Beor, ut malediceret vobis : 10 et ego nolui audire eum, sed e contrario per illum benedixi vobis, et liberavi vos de manu ejus. 11 Transistisque Jordanem, et venistis ad Jericho. Pugnaveruntque contra vos viri civitatis ejus, Amorrhus et Pherezus, et Chananus, et Hethus, et Gergezus, et Hevus, et Jebusus : et tradidi illos in manus vestras. 12 Misique ante vos crabrones : et ejeci eos de locis suis, duos reges Amorrhorum, non in gladio nec in arcu tuo. 13 Dedique vobis terram, in qua non laborastis, et urbes quas non dificastis, ut habitaretis in eis : vineas, et oliveta, qu non plantastis. 14 Nunc ergo timete Dominum, et servite ei perfecto corde atque verissimo : et auferte deos quibus servierunt patres vestri in Mesopotamia et in gypto, ac servite Domino. 15 Sin autem malum vobis videtur ut Domino serviatis, optio vobis datur : eligite hodie quod placet, cui servire potissimum debeatis : utrum diis, quibus servierunt patres vestri in Mesopotamia, an diis Amorrhorum, in quorum terra habitatis : ego autem et domus mea serviemus Domino.16 Responditque populus, et ait : Absit a nobis ut relinquamus Dominum, et serviamus diis alienis. 17 Dominus Deus noster, ipse eduxit nos et patres nostros de terra gypti, de domo servitutis : fecitque videntibus nobis signa ingentia, et custodivit nos in omni via per quam ambulavimus, et in cunctis populis per quos transivimus. 18 Et ejecit universas gentes, Amorrhum habitatorem terr quam nos intravimus. Serviemus igitur Domino, quia ipse est Deus noster. 19 Dixitque Josue ad populum : Non poteritis servire Domino : Deus enim sanctus et fortis mulator est, nec ignoscet sceleribus vestris atque peccatis. 20 Si dimiseritis Dominum, et servieritis diis alienis, convertet se, et affliget vos atque subvertet, postquam vobis prstiterit bona. 21 Dixitque populus ad Josue : Nequaquam ita ut loqueris erit, sed Domino serviemus. 22 Et Josue ad populum : Testes, inquit, vos estis, quia ipsi elegeritis vobis Dominum ut serviatis ei. Responderuntque : Testes. 23 Nunc ergo, ait, auferte deos alienos de medio vestri, et inclinate corda vestra ad Dominum Deum Isral. 24 Dixitque populus ad Josue : Domino Deo nostro serviemus, et obedientes erimus prceptis ejus.25 Percussit ergo Josue in die illo fdus, et proposuit populo prcepta atque judicia in Sichem. 26 Scripsit quoque omnia verba hc in volumine legis Domini : et tulit lapidem pergrandem, posuitque eum subter quercum, qu erat in sanctuario Domini : 27 et dixit ad omnem populum : En lapis iste erit vobis in testimonium, quod audierit omnia verba Domini, qu locutus est vobis : ne forte postea negare velitis, et mentiri Domino Deo vestro. 28 Dimisitque populum, singulos in possessionem suam.29 Et post hc mortuus est Josue filius Nun servus Domini, centum et decem annorum : 30 sepelieruntque eum in finibus possessionis su in Thamnathsare, qu est sita in monte Ephraim, a septentrionali parte montis Gaas. 31 Servivitque Isral Domino cunctis diebus Josue et seniorum, qui longo vixerunt tempore post Josue, et qui noverunt omnia opera Domini qu fecerat in Isral.32 Ossa quoque Joseph, qu tulerant filii Isral de gypto, sepelierunt in Sichem, in parte agri quem emerat Jacob a filiis Hemor patris Sichem, centum novellis ovibus, et fuit in possessionem filiorum Joseph. 33 Eleazar quoque filius Aaron mortuus est : et sepelierunt eum in Gabaath Phinees filii ejus, qu data est ei in monte Ephraim.