And Joshuagathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for theirheads, and for theirjudges, and for theirofficers; and theypresentedthemselvesbefore God.
And Joshuasaidunto all the people, Thussaith the LORD God of Israel, Yourfathersdwelt on the otherside of the flood in old time, evenTerah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and theyservedothergods.
And I tookyourfatherAbrahamfrom the otherside of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
And whentheycriedunto the LORD, he put darknessbetween you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea uponthem, and coveredthem; and youreyeshaveseenwhat I havedone in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a longseason.
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, whichdwelt on the othersideJordan; and theyfoughtwith you: and I gavethemintoyourhand, that ye mightpossesstheirland; and I destroyedthemfrombefore you.
And ye wentoverJordan, and cameuntoJericho: and the men of Jerichofoughtagainst you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I deliveredthemintoyourhand.
And I havegiven you a land for which ye did not labour, and citieswhich ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyardswhich ye planted not do ye eat.
Now thereforefear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the godswhichyourfathersserved on the otherside of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
And if it seemevilunto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye willserve; whether the godswhichyourfathersservedthatwere on the otherside of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whoseland ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we willserve the LORD.
For the LORD our God, he it is thatbrought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did thosegreatsigns in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the peoplethroughwhom we passed:
And Joshuasaidunto the people, Ye cannotserve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgiveyourtransgressions nor yoursins.
And Joshuawrotethesewords in the book of the law of God, and took a greatstone, and set it up thereunder an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
And Joshuasaidunto all the people, Behold, thisstoneshall be a witnessunto us; for it hathheard all the words of the LORDwhich he spakeunto us: it shall be therefore a witnessunto you, lest ye denyyour God.
And Israelserved the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the eldersthatoverlivedJoshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israelbrought up out of Egypt, buriedthey in Shechem, in a parcel of groundwhichJacobbought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundredpieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.