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The Covenant at Shechem

¹Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to ⚓Shechem and ⚓called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they ⚓presented themselves before God. ²And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ⚓‘Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times; and ⚓they served other gods. ³⚓Then I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and ⚓gave him Isaac. ⁴To Isaac I gave ⚓Jacob and Esau. To ⚓Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, ⚓but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. ⁵⚓Also I sent Moses and Aaron, and ⚓I plagued Egypt, according to what I did among them. Afterward I brought you out.
⁶‘Then I ⚓brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. ⁷So they cried out to the Lord; and He put ⚓darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon them, and covered them. And ⚓your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you dwelt in the wilderness ⚓a long time. ⁸And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the other side of the Jordan, ⚓and they fought with you. But I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land, and I destroyed them from before you. ⁹Then ⚓Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose to make war against Israel, and ⚓sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. ¹⁰⚓But I would not listen to Balaam; ⚓therefore he continued to bless you. So I delivered you out of his hand. ¹¹Then ⚓you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And ⚓the men of Jericho fought against you—also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I delivered them into your hand. ¹²⚓I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but⚓not with your sword or with your bow. ¹³I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and ⚓cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’
¹⁴⚓“Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in ⚓sincerity and in truth, and ⚓put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and ⚓in Egypt. Serve the Lord! ¹⁵And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, ⚓choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether ⚓the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or ⚓the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. ⚓But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
¹⁶So the people answered and said: “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods; ¹⁷for the Lord our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed. ¹⁸And the Lord drove out from before us all the people, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. ⚓We also will serve the Lord, for He is our God.”
¹⁹But Joshua said to the people, ⚓“You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a ⚓holy God. He is⚓a jealous God; ⚓He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. ²⁰⚓If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, ⚓then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”
²¹And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the Lord!”
²²So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that ⚓you have chosen the Lord for yourselves, to serve Him.”
And they said, “We are witnesses!”
²³“Now therefore,” he said,⚓“put away the foreign gods which are among you, and ⚓incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel.”
²⁴And the people ⚓said to Joshua, “The Lord our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!”
²⁵So Joshua ⚓made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance ⚓in Shechem.
²⁶Then Joshua ⚓wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took ⚓a large stone, and ⚓set it up there ⚓under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. ²⁷And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be ⚓a witness to us, for ⚓it has heard all the words of the Lord which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.” ²⁸So ⚓Joshua let the people depart, each to his own inheritance.

Death of Joshua and Eleazar

²⁹⚓Now it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old. ³⁰And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at ⚓Timnath Serah, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.
³¹⚓Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had ⚓known all the works of the Lord which He had done for Israel.
³²⚓The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground ⚓which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.
³³And ⚓Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in a hill belonging to⚓Phinehas his son, which was given to him in the mountains of Ephraim.

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Yô-sũa Atỡng Máh Cũai Proai Tâng Vil Se-kem

¹Chơ Yô-sũa arô máh tỗp I-sarel yỗn toâq pỡ vil Se-kem, dếh máh cũai sốt tâng sâu, máh cũai arieih, máh cũai rasữq, cớp máh cũai sốt tỗp I-sarel hỡ, yỗn tỗp alới ỡt choâng moat Yiang Sursĩ. ²Yô-sũa pai neq chóq alới: “Yiang Sursĩ, la Yiang tỗp I-sarel, khoiq pai neq: ‘Khoiq dũn lứq chơ achúc achiac anhia ỡt coah angia crỗng Ơ-phơ-rat, cớp alới cucốh sang máh yiang canŏ́h. Ma bữn manoaq tễ tỗp ki, ramứh Thara, mpoaq A-praham cớp Nahor. ³Cứq khoiq dững aloŏh A-praham, la achúc achiac anhia, tễ cutễq coah tooh crỗng Ơ-phơ-rat, cớp yỗn án pỡq pha cruang Cana-an. Cứq yỗn án bữn tŏ́ng toiq clứng lứq, nhơ tễ I-sac con samiang án. ⁴Cứq yỗn I-sac bữn con samiang bar náq, ramứh Yacốp cớp Ê-sau. Cớp cứq chiau cutễq pỡ máh dũal cớp cóh cruang Ê-dôm yỗn Ê-sau; ma Yacốp cớp con châu án sễng ỡt pỡ cruang Ê-yip-tô. ⁵Ntun ễn, cứq ớn Môi-se cớp Arôn pỡq rachuai achúc achiac anhia, cớp cứq yỗn sa‑ữi ramứh túh coat toâq pỡ cũai Ê-yip-tô. Ma cứq dững aloŏh tỗp anhia tễ cruang ki. ⁶Cứq khoiq dững aloŏh achúc achiac anhia tễ cruang Ê-yip-tô; cớp máh cũai Ê-yip-tô rapuai cachĩt tỗp alới na sễ aséh rachíl cớp na tahan ỡt aséh. Ma tữ achúc achiac anhia toâq pỡ dỡq mưt Cusâu, ⁷alới arô sễq cứq chuai. Chơ cứq táq yỗn cỡt canám ỡt catáng bân mpứng dĩ bar coah tỗp alới cớp tỗp Ê-yip-tô; cớp cứq yỗn dỡq mưt rapuai calứp tỗp Ê-yip-tô toau cuchĩt thréc nheq. Tỗp anhia khoiq hữm chơ máh ranáq salễh cứq táq chóq cũai Ê-yip-tô.
“‘Vớt ki, tỗp anhia bữn ỡt tâng ntốq aiq dũn cumo. ⁸Chơ cứq dững tỗp anhia toâq pỡ cutễq tỗp Amô-rit coah angia mandang loŏh crỗng Yôr-dan. Tỗp alới rachíl cớp tỗp anhia, ma cứq yỗn anhia bữn chíl riap. Anhia cheng bữn cutễq tỗp alới, cớp cứq pupứt nheq tỗp alới. ⁹Bo ki Balac con samiang Si-pôr, la puo tỗp Mô-ap, chíl tỗp anhia. Cớp án ớn Balam con samiang Bê-ô toâq pupap anhia. ¹⁰Ma cứq tỡ bữn tamứng santoiq Balam. Ngkíq santoiq án ễ pupap anhia ralêq cỡt santoiq pai ŏ́c bốn ễn yỗn tỗp anhia. Ma cứq chuai tỗp anhia yỗn vớt tễ talang atĩ Balac. ¹¹Chơ tỗp anhia clong crỗng Yôr-dan pỡq chu vil Yê-ri-cô. Tỗp Yê-ri-cô chíl tỗp anhia; mŏ noâng bữn tỗp canŏ́h hỡ chíl tỗp anhia, la tỗp neq: Amô-rit, Pê-rasit, Cana-an, Hêt, Kir-casit, Hê-vit cớp Yê-but. Ma cứq yỗn anhia chíl riap nheq tỗp alới. ¹²Bo anhia ễ mut tuih bar náq puo tỗp Amô-rit, cứq táq yỗn alới cỡt ngcŏh ayín.⚓ Tỡ cỡn cỗ nhơ pla dau tỡ la tamĩang anhia la táq yỗn anhia bữn riap. ¹³Cứq khoiq chiau cruang cutễq ki anhia tỡ bữn aloŏh rêng táq; cứq khoiq chiau yỗn anhia máh vil anhia tỡ bữn táng, dếh yỗn anhia bữn cha palâi nho cớp palâi o‑li‑vê ca anhia tỡ bữn chóh.’”
¹⁴Chơ Yô-sũa pai ễn neq: “Ngkíq, cóq anhia yám noap Yiang Sursĩ, cớp táq máh ranáq án nheq tễ mứt pahỡm anhia cớp tanoang tapứng lứq. Cóq anhia cachian táh máh yiang achúc achiac anhia dốq sang bo alới ỡt coah angia mandang loŏh crỗng Ơ-phơ-rat, cớp bo alới ỡt tâng cruang Ê-yip-tô. Cóq anhia táq ống ranáq Yiang Sursĩ sâng. ¹⁵Khân anhia tỡ bữn bũi pahỡm táq ranáq Yiang Sursĩ, cóq anhia rưoh ĩt tâng tangái nâi toâp, anhia ễ táq ranáq yiang léq. Anhia ễ táq ranáq máh yiang achúc achiac anhia cucốh sang tâng cruang Mê-sapô-tamia, tỡ la yiang tỗp Amô-rit tâng ntốq anhia ỡt sanua nâi? Ma cứq cớp máh cũai tâng dống sũ cứq, nheq náq hếq ễ táq ống ranáq Yiang Sursĩ sâng.”
¹⁶Chơ máh cũai proai ta‑ỡi neq: “Lứq samoât, tỗp hếq tỡ bữn calỡih táh Yiang Sursĩ, chơ pỡq sang yiang canŏ́h. ¹⁷Yuaq Yiang Sursĩ, la Yiang tỗp hếq, án khoiq dững aloŏh achúc achiac hếq cớp tỗp hếq tễ cỡt sũl tâng cruang Ê-yip-tô. Tỗp hếq bữn hữm máh ranáq salễh án khoiq táq. Cớp án bán curiaq tỗp hếq dũ ntốq hếq tayáh pỡq pha máh cruang cũai canŏ́h. ¹⁸Bo tỗp hếq ễ mut, Yiang Sursĩ khoiq tuih tỗp Amô-rit ỡt tâng cutễq ki yỗn loŏh nheq. Yuaq ngkíq, tỗp hếq ễ táq ống ranáq Yiang Sursĩ, yuaq án cỡt Yiang tỗp hếq.”
¹⁹Ma Yô-sũa pai chóq máh cũai proai ễn neq: “Tỗp anhia tỡ rơi táq mŏ ranáq Yiang Sursĩ. Yuaq án la Yiang bráh o lứq; án tỡ bữn pruam anhia puai yiang canŏ́h, cớp án tỡ bữn táh lôih yỗn anhia, khân anhia bữn bar mứt. ²⁰Khân tỗp anhia calỡih táh Yiang Sursĩ, chơ pỡq táq ranáq yỗn yiang canŏ́h, ngkíq Ncháu lứq píh toâq chíl cớp yỗn anhia roap ŏ́c bap. Tam án khoiq táq ranáq o yỗn anhia tễ nhũang, mŏ khân anhia tỡ bữn trĩh án, án lứq pupứt tỗp anhia machớng ki tê.”
²¹Chơ máh cũai proai pai chóq Yô-sũa neq: “Tỡ bữn! Tỗp hếq ễ táq ống ranáq Yiang Sursĩ sâng.”
²²Yô-sũa ta‑ỡi loah: “Tỗp anhia roap bữm máh ŏ́c anhia parkhán; anhia khoiq rưoh ễ táq ranáq Yiang Sursĩ.”
Tỗp alới ta‑ỡi loah: “Lứq ngkíq! Tỗp hếq sễq roap bữm!”
²³Chơ Yô-sũa pai ễn neq: “Khân lứq ngkíq, cóq nheq tữh anhia voang chíq máh rup yiang tỗp canŏ́h ca anhia bữn, chơ táq puai samoât samơi Yiang Sursĩ, la Yiang tỗp I-sarel sang.”
²⁴Chơ máh cũai proai ta‑ỡi neq: “Tỗp hếq ễ táq ống ranáq Yiang Sursĩ, Ncháu hếq, sâng. Cớp hếq ễ trĩh nheq máh santoiq án patâp.”
²⁵Ngkíq Yô-sũa táq tếc parkhán cớp tỗp alới, cớp án chiau máh phễp rit cớp ŏ́c patâp yỗn tỗp alới tâng vil Se-kem. ²⁶Yô-sũa chĩc dŏq dũ ramứh ki tâng tâm saráq Phễp Rit Yiang Sursĩ. Chơ án ayứng muoi tamáu côl pưn aluang toâr bân ntốq Dống Sang Aroâiq khong Yiang Sursĩ. ²⁷Chơ án pai chóq dũ náq alới neq: “Tamáu côl nâi dáng tê máh ŏ́c tỗp hái parkhán. Yuaq án khoiq sâng dũ ŏ́c Yiang Sursĩ khoiq pai yỗn tỗp hái; ngkíq án cỡt tếc dŏq chíl tỗp anhia, khân anhia calỡih táh Yiang Sursĩ anhia.”
²⁸Moâm ki, Yô-sũa ớn tỗp alới píh chu loah pỡ cutễq alới bữm.

Yô-sũa Cớp E-lia-sơ Cuchĩt

²⁹Vớt ki, Yô-sũa con samiang Nun, la cũai táq ranáq Yiang Sursĩ, cuchĩt. Anhúq án muoi culám muoi chít cumo. ³⁰Tỗp alới tứp án tâng cutễq mun án pỡ vil Tim-nat Sê-ra, tâng máh dũal cớp cóh tỗp Ep-ra-im yáng coah angia pỡng cóh Ca-at.
³¹Sốt dỡi tamoong Yô-sũa, máh cũai I-sarel táq níc ranáq Yiang Sursĩ. Cớp vớt án cuchĩt, tỗp alới noâng táq níc ranáq Yiang Sursĩ, toau sốt dỡi tamoong máh cũai arieih ca khoiq bữn hữm máh ranáq salễh Yiang Sursĩ khoiq táq yỗn tỗp I-sarel.
³²Cớp nghang Yô-sep, ca tỗp I-sarel dững achu tễ cruang Ê-yip-tô, alới dững tứp pỡ vil Se-kem tâng cutễq Yacốp chỡng tễ máh con samiang Hamor, mpoaq Se-kem. Yacốp khoiq chỡng cutễq ki muoi culám ŏ́c práq, chơ cutễq ki cỡt mun tŏ́ng toiq Yô-sep.
³³Vớt ki, E-lia-sơ con samiang Arôn cuchĩt tê; cớp noau tứp án pỡ vil Ki-bĩah, la vil tâng máh dũal cớp cóh tỗp Ep-ra-im. Vil nâi khoiq noau chiau yỗn Phi-niat con samiang E-lia-sơ ndỡm.