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And the people said to Joshua: No, it shall not be so as thou sayest, but we will serve the Lord.

And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses, that you yourselves have chosen you the Lord to serve him. And they answered: We are witnesses.

Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.

And the people said to Joshua: We will serve the Lord our God, and we will be obedient to his commandments.

And he wrote all these things in the volume of the law of the Lord: and he took a great stone, and set it under the oak that was in the sanctuary of the Lord.

And he said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

And after these things Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the Lord died, being a hundred and ten years old:

And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and of the ancients that lived a long time after Joshua, and that had known all the works of the Lord which he had done in Israel.

After the death of Joshua, the children of Israel consulted the Lord, saying: Who shall go up before us against the Chanaanite, and shall be the leader of the war?

And the Lord said: Juda shall go up: behold I have delivered the land into his hands.

And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered the Chanaanite, and the Pherezite into their hands: and they slew of them in Bezec ten thousand men.

And Adonibezec said: Seventy kings, having their fingers and toes cut off, gathered up the leavings of the meat under my table: as I have done, so hath God requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

And the Lord was with Juda, and he possessed the hill country: but was not able to destroy the inhabitants of the valley, because they had many chariots armed with scythes.

The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the place of weepers, and said: I made you go out of Egypt, and have brought you into the land for which I swore to your fathers: and I promised that I would not make void my covenant with you for ever:

And when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel: they lifted up their voice, and wept.

And the name of that place was called, The place of weepers, or of tears: and there they offered sacrifices to the Lord.

And they served the Lord all his days, and the days of the ancients, that lived a long time after him, and who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.

And Josue, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being a hundred and ten years old;

And all that generation was gathered to their fathers: and there arose others that knew not the Lord and the works which he had done for Israel.

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they served Baalim

And they left the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt: and they followed strange gods, and the gods of the people that dwelt round about them, and they adored them: and they provoked the Lord to anger,

Forsaking him, and serving Baal and Astaroth

And the Lord being angry against Israel, delivered them into the hands of plunderers: who took them and sold them to their enemies, that dwelt round about: neither could they stand against their enemies:

But whithersoever they meant to go, the hand of the Lord was upon them, as he had said, and as he had sworn to them: and they were greatly distressed.