1   And Ioshua assembled againe all the ^note tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called the Elders of Israel, and their heades, and their iudges, and their officers, and they presented themselues before ^note God.

2   Then Ioshua said vnto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, ^note Your fathers dwelt beyond the ^note flood in olde time, euen Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor, and serued other gods.

3   And I tooke your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and brought him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seede, and ^note gaue him Izhak.

4   And I gaue vnto Izhak, ^note Iaakob and Esau: and I gaue vnto ^note Esau mount Seir, to possesse it: but ^note Iaakob and his children went downe into Egypt.

5    ^noteI sent Moses also & Aaron, and I plagued Egypt: and when I had so done among them, I brought you out.

6   So I ^note brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came vnto the Sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with charets and horsemen vnto ^note the red sea.

7   Then they cryed vnto the Lorde, and he put ^note a darkenesse betweene you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea vpon them, and couered them: so your eyes haue seene what I haue done in Egypt also ye dwelt in the wildernesse ^note a long season.

8   After, I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt beyond Iorden, ^note and they fought with you: but I gaue them into your hand, and ye possessed their countrey, and I destroyed them out of your sight.

9    ^noteAlso Balak the sonne of Zippor King of Moab arose and warred against Israel, and sent to call Balaam the sonne of Beor for to curse you,

10   But I would not heare Balaam: therefore he blessed you, and I deliuered you out of his hand.

11   And ye went ouer Iorden, and came vnto Iericho, and the ^note men of Iericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hiuites & the Iebusites, and I deliuered them into your hand.

12   And I sent ^note hornets before you, which cast them out before you, euen the two kings of the Amorites, and not with thy sword, nor &wt; thy bow.

13   And I haue giuen you a land, wherein ye

Ioshua rehearsing Gods benefites, exhorteth the people to feare God. did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and yee dwell in them, and eate of the vineyards and oliue trees, which yee planted not.

14   Nowe therefore ^note feare the Lorde, & serue him in vprightnesse and in trueth, and put away the gods, which your fathers serued beyonde the flood and in Egypt, and serue the Lord.

15   And ^note if it seeme euill vnto you to serue the Lorde, choose you this day whome yee will serue, whether the gods which your fathers serued (that were beyond the flood) or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwel: ^note but I & mine house will serue the Lord.

16   Then the people answered and saide, God forbid, that we shoulde forsake the Lord, to serue other gods.

17   For the Lorde our God, he brought vs and our fathers out of the lande of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and he did those great miracles in our sight, and preserued vs in all the way that we went, and among all the people through whome we came.

18   And the Lorde did cast out before vs all the people, euen the Amorites which dwelt in the lande: therefore will we also serue the Lord, ^note for he is our God.

19   And Ioshua saide vnto the people, Ye can not serue the Lorde: for he is an holie God: he is a ielous God: hee will not pardon your iniquitie nor your sinnes.

20   If yee forsake the Lorde and serue strange gods, ^note then he will returne and bring euill vpon you, and consume you, after that hee hath done you good.

21   And the people saide vnto Ioshua, Nay, but we will serue the Lord.

22   And Ioshua saide vnto the people, Yee are witnesses ^note against your selues, that yee haue chosen you the Lord, to serue him: and they sayd, We are witnesses. Ioshua dieth, and Eleazar.

23   Then put away nowe, saide he, the strange ^note gods which are among you, and bowe your hearts vnto the Lord God of Israel.

24   And þe; people saide vnto Ioshua, The Lord our God wil we serue, & his voyce wil we obey.

25   So Ioshua ^note made a couenant with the people the same day, and gaue them an ordinance and lawe in Shechem.

26   And Ioshua wrote these woordes in the booke of the Lawe of God, and tooke a great stone, and pitched it there vnder an ^note oke that was in the Sanctuarie of the Lord.

27   And Ioshua saide vnto all the people, Beholde, this stone shall be a witnesse vnto vs: for it ^note hath heard all the wordes of the Lord which he spake with vs: it shall be therefore a witnesse against you, lest yee denie your God.

28   Then Ioshua let the people depart, euery man vnto his inheritance.

29   And after these things Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruaunt of the Lord died, being an hundreth and ten yeeres olde.

30   And they buried him in þe; border of his inheritance in ^note Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the Northside of mount Gaash.

31   And Israel ^note serued the Lorde all the daies of Ioshua, and all the daies of the Elders that ouerliued Ioshua, and which had knowen all the workes of the Lord that he had done for Israel.

32   And the ^note bones of Ioseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in a parcell of ground which Iaakob bought of ^note the sonnes of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundreth pieces of siluer, and the children of Ioseph had them in their inheritance.

33   Also Eleazar the sonne of Aaron died, whome they buried in ^note the hill of Phinehas his sonne, which was giuen him in mount Ephraim.

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