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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Joshua 24 New American Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joshua/24.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/joshua/24-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com/catholic">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NABRE</a> > Joshua 24</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/23.htm" title="Joshua 23">◄</a> Joshua 24 <a href="../judges/1.htm" title="Judges 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch06024" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn06024" class="cn"></h1> <p class="pf"><span class="hemb">Covenant Ceremony.</span> <span id="v06024001" class="ver">1</span><a id="ren06024001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024001-a">a</a> Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem, summoning the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel. When they stood in ranks before God, <span id="v06024002" class="ver">2</span>Joshua addressed all the people: “Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel: In times past your ancestors, down to Terah,<a id="ren06024002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024002-b">b</a> father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River<a id="rfn06024002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn06024002-1">*</a> and served other gods. <span id="v06024003" class="ver">3</span>But I brought your father Abraham from the region beyond the River and led him through the entire land of Canaan.<a id="ren06024003-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024003-c">c</a> I made his descendants numerous, and gave him Isaac. <span id="v06024004" class="ver">4</span>To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.<a id="ren06024004-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024004-d">d</a> To Esau I assigned the mountain region of Seir to possess, while Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.</p> <p><span id="v06024005" class="ver">5</span>“Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and struck Egypt with the plagues and wonders that I wrought in her midst.<a id="ren06024005-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024005-e">e</a> Afterward I led you out. <span id="v06024006" class="ver">6</span>And when I led your ancestors out of Egypt, you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued your ancestors to the Red Sea with chariots and charioteers.<a id="ren06024006-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024006-f">f</a> <span id="v06024007" class="ver">7</span>When they cried out to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,<a id="ren06024007-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024007-g">g</a> he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, upon whom he brought the sea so that it covered them. Your eyes saw what I did to Egypt. After you dwelt a long time in the wilderness, <span id="v06024008" class="ver">8</span><a id="ren06024008-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024008-h">h</a> I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your power. You took possession of their land, and I destroyed them at your approach. <span id="v06024009" class="ver">9</span><a id="ren06024009-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024009-i">i</a> Then Balak, son of Zippor, king of Moab, prepared to war against Israel. He summoned Balaam, son of Beor, to curse you, <span id="v06024010" class="ver">10</span><a id="ren06024010-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024010-j">j</a> but I would not listen to Balaam. Instead, he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his power. <span id="v06024011" class="ver">11</span>Once you crossed the Jordan<a id="ren06024011-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024011-k">k</a> and came to Jericho, the citizens of Jericho fought against you, but I delivered them also into your power. <span id="v06024012" class="ver">12</span>And I sent the hornets<a id="rfn06024012-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn06024012-1">*</a> ahead of you which drove them—the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites—out of your way; it was not your sword or your bow.<a id="ren06024012-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024012-l">l</a> <span id="v06024013" class="ver">13</span>I gave you a land you did not till and cities you did not build, to dwell in; you ate of vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.<a id="ren06024013-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024013-m">m</a></p> <p><span id="v06024014" class="ver">14</span><a id="ren06024014-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024014-n">n</a> “Now, therefore, fear the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and serve him completely and sincerely. Cast out the gods your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v06024015" class="ver">15</span><a id="ren06024015-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024015-o">o</a> If it is displeasing to you to serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, choose today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.”</p> <p><span id="v06024016" class="ver">16</span>But the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> to serve other gods. <span id="v06024017" class="ver">17</span>For it was the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, who brought us and our ancestors up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. He performed those great signs before our very eyes and protected us along our entire journey and among all the peoples through whom we passed. <span id="v06024018" class="ver">18</span>At our approach the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> drove out all the peoples, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. Therefore we also will serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, for he is our God.”</p> <p><span id="v06024019" class="ver">19</span>Joshua in turn said to the people, “You may not be able to serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, for he is a holy God; he is a passionate God<a id="ren06024019-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024019-p">p</a> who will not forgive your transgressions or your sins. <span id="v06024020" class="ver">20</span>If you forsake the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> and serve strange gods, he will then do evil to you and destroy you, after having done you good.”</p> <p><span id="v06024021" class="ver">21</span>But the people answered Joshua, “No! We will serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.” <span id="v06024022" class="ver">22</span>Joshua therefore said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.” They replied, “We are witnesses!” <span id="v06024023" class="ver">23</span>“Now, therefore, put away the foreign gods that are among you and turn your hearts to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, the God of Israel.” <span id="v06024024" class="ver">24</span>Then the people promised Joshua, “We will serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, and will listen to his voice.”</p> <p><span id="v06024025" class="ver">25</span>So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem. <span id="v06024026" class="ver">26</span>Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was in the sanctuary of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren06024026-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024026-q">q</a> <span id="v06024027" class="ver">27</span>And Joshua said to all the people, “This stone shall be our witness,<a id="ren06024027-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024027-r">r</a> for it has heard all the words which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> spoke to us. It shall be a witness against you, should you wish to deny your God.” <span id="v06024028" class="ver">28</span>Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own heritage.<a id="ren06024028-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024028-s">s</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Death of Joshua.</span> <span id="v06024029" class="ver">29</span><a id="ren06024029-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024029-t">t</a> After these events, Joshua, son of Nun, servant of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, died at the age of a hundred and ten, <span id="v06024030" class="ver">30</span>and they buried him within the borders of his heritage at Timnath-serah<a id="ren06024030-u" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024030-u">u</a> in the mountain region of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.<a id="rfn06024030-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn06024030-1">*</a> <span id="v06024031" class="ver">31</span>Israel served the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> during the entire lifetime of Joshua, and of those elders who outlived Joshua and who knew all the work the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had done for Israel. <span id="v06024032" class="ver">32</span><a id="ren06024032-v" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024032-v">v</a> The bones of Joseph,<a id="rfn06024032-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn06024032-1">*</a> which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried in Shechem in the plot of ground Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of money. This was a heritage of the descendants of Joseph. <span id="v06024033" class="ver">33</span>When Eleazar, son of Aaron, also died, he was buried on the hill which had been given to his son Phinehas<a id="ren06024033-w" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en06024033-w">w</a> in the mountain region of Ephraim.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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