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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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Klei Y-Yôsuê Blŭ Čhưn Knhal Tuč
1Y-Yôsuê bi kƀĭn jih jang phung găp djuê Israel ti ƀuôn Sičem, ñu iêu phung khua mduôn, phung khua gai gĭt, phung khua phat kđi, phung khua kahan phung Israel; leh anăn diñu bi êdah diñu pô ti anăp Aê Diê.
2 Y-Yôsuê lač kơ jih jang phung ƀuôn sang, “Snei Yêhôwa Aê Diê phung Israel lač, ‘Phung aê diih đưm, Y-Têra ama kơ Y-Abraham leh anăn Y-Nahôr, dôk hdĭp mphŭn dô ti hang nah dih êa krông Ơprat, leh anăn diñu mă bruă kơ phung yang mkăn.
3 Kâo mă aê diih đưm Y-Abraham mơ̆ng nah yŭ Êa Krông Ơphrat leh anăn atăt ñu mŭt găn jih čar Kanaan, leh anăn bi lar phung anak čô ñu. Kâo brei Y-Isăk kơ ñu.
4 Kâo brei Y-Yakôp leh anăn Y-Êsâo kơ Y-Isăk. Kâo brei čar kngư Sêir kơ Y-Êsâo mă bha, ƀiădah Y-Yakôp leh anăn phung anak ñu trŭn nao kơ čar Êjip.
5 Kâo tiŏ nao Y-Môis leh anăn Y-Arôn, leh anăn kâo bi knap čar Êjip hŏng klei kâo ngă leh ti krah čar anăn. Leh klei anăn kâo atăt leh diih kbiă mơ̆ng anăn.
6 Hlăk anăn kâo atăt phung ama diih kbiă mơ̆ng čar Êjip, leh anăn diih truh kơ êa ksĭ. Phung Êjip tiŏ phung ama diih hŏng êdeh aseh leh anăn phung đĭ aseh truh kơ Êa Ksĭ Hrah.
7Tơdah diñu ur kơ Yêhôwa, Yêhôwa dưm klei mmăt plah wah diih hŏng phung Êjip, brei êa ksĭ đoh guôm digơ̆; leh anăn ală diih ƀuh leh klei kâo ngă kơ phung Êjip. Leh anăn diih dôk sui hlăm kdrăn tač.
8 Kâo atăt diih kơ čar phung Amôrit dôk hang nah dih êa krông Yurdan; diñu bi blah hŏng diih, leh anăn kâo jao diñu hlăm kngan diih. Diih mă bha čar diñu, leh anăn kâo bi rai diñu ti anăp diih.
9 Y-Balak anak êkei Y-Sipôr mtao čar Môap kgŭ bi blah hŏng phung Israel. Ñu tiŏ nao arăng jak Y-Balaam anak êkei Y-Bêor brei tăm pah kơ diih.
10Ƀiădah kâo amâo dôk hmư̆ Y-Balaam ôh; kyuanăn ñu hơêč hmưi kơ diih. Snăn kâo bi mtlaih diih mơ̆ng kngan Y-Balak.
11 Diih găn êa krông Yurdan leh anăn truh kơ ƀuôn Yêrikô. Phung ƀuôn sang Yêrikô bi blah hŏng diih, wăt phung Amôrit, phung Pêrisit, phung Kanaan, phung Hitit, phung Girgasit, phung Hiwit, leh anăn phung Jêbusit; leh anăn kâo jao diñu leh hlăm kngan diih.
12 Kâo mơĭt hông ti anăp diih suôt diñu mơ̆ng ti anăp diih, dua čô mtao phung Amôrit; amâo djŏ hŏng đao gưm diih ôh, kăn djŏ hŏng hna diih rei.
13 Kâo brei leh kơ diih sa boh čar diih ka tuôm mă bruă, leh anăn lu ƀuôn prŏng diih amâo tuôm mdơ̆ng ôh, leh anăn diih dôk ti anăn. Diih ƀơ̆ng boh kriăk ƀâo leh anăn boh ôliwơ diih amâo tuôm pla ôh.’
14Snăn ară anei huĭ mpŭ bĕ kơ Yêhôwa, leh anăn mă bruă kơ Ñu hŏng klei ênuah leh anăn hŏng klei sĭt suôr. Hwiê hĕ phung yang phung aê diih đưm mă leh bruă ti nah yŭ Êa Krông Ơphrat leh anăn hlăm čar Êjip, leh anăn mă bruă bĕ kơ Yêhôwa.
15Ară anei, tơdah diih amâo čiăng mă bruă kơ Yêhôwa ôh, ruah bĕ hruê anei kơ hlei pô diih čiăng mă bruă, thâodah phung yang phung aê diih đưm mă bruă ti hang nah yŭ Êa Krông Ơphrat, thâodah kơ yang phung Amôrit hlăm čar diñu diih dôk. Bi kâo leh anăn phung hlăm sang kâo, hmei srăng mă bruă kơ Yêhôwa.”
16Phung ƀuôn sang lŏ wĭt lač, “Sĭt nik hmei amâo mĭn čiăng lui Yêhôwa leh anăn mă bruă kơ phung yang mkăn ôh!
17Kyuadah Yêhôwa, Aê Diê drei yơh jing Pô atăt leh drei leh anăn phung ama drei kbiă mơ̆ng čar Êjip mơ̆ng sang klei jing hlŭn, ngă leh klei yuôm bhăn prŏng anăn ti anăp ală drei, kiă kriê drei hlăm jih êlan drei êbat, ti krah jih jang phung ƀuôn sang drei găn.
18Yêhôwa suôt leh ti anăp drei jih jang phung ƀuôn sang, wăt phung Amôrit dôk leh hlăm čar anei. Kyuanăn hmei msĕ mơh srăng mă bruă kơ Yêhôwa, kyuadah Ñu jing Aê Diê drei.”
19Ƀiădah Y-Yôsuê lač kơ phung ƀuôn sang, “Diih amâo dưi mă bruă kơ Yêhôwa ôh, kyuadah Ñu jing Aê Diê doh jăk; Ñu jing Aê Diê thâo trih; Ñu amâo srăng pap brei ôh kơ klei diih gao klei bhiăn amâodah kơ klei soh diih.
20Tơdah diih lui Yêhôwa leh anăn mă bruă kơ phung yang tue, hlăk anăn Ñu srăng wir ngă jhat kơ diih, leh anăn čuh bi rai diih, wăt tơdah tuôn ngă leh klei jăk kơ diih.”
21Phung ƀuôn sang lač kơ Y-Yôsuê, “Hơăi, ƀiădah hmei srăng mă bruă kơ Yêhôwa.”
22Leh anăn Y-Yôsuê lač kơ phung ƀuôn sang, “Diih jing phung hưn bi sĭt bi kdơ̆ng hŏng diih pô kơ klei diih ruah leh Yêhôwa čiăng mă bruă kơ Ñu.” Diñu lač, “Hmei jing phung hưn bi sĭt yơh.”
23Ñu lač, “snăn hwiê hĕ phung yang tue ti krah diih, leh anăn bi wir ai tiê diih phă Yêhôwa, Aê Diê phung Israel.”
24Leh anăn phung ƀuôn sang lač kơ Y-Yôsuê, “Hmei srăng mă bruă kơ Yêhôwa, Aê Diê drei, leh anăn hmei srăng gưt asăp Ñu.”
25Snăn hruê anăn Y-Yôsuê ngă klei bi mguôp hŏng phung ƀuôn sang, leh anăn brei klei bhiăn leh anăn klei mtă kơ diñu ti ƀuôn Sičem.
26Y-Yôsuê čih jih klei bhiăn anei hlăm hdruôm hră klei bhiăn Aê Diê. Ñu mă ba boh tâo prŏng leh anăn mdơ̆ng gơ̆ ti anăn ti gŭ ana kyâo hlăm anôk doh jăk Yêhôwa.
27Y-Yôsuê lač kơ jih jang phung ƀuôn sang, “Nĕ anei, boh tâo anei srăng jing klei hưn bi sĭt bi kdơ̆ng hŏng drei; kyuadah boh tâo anei hmư̆ bi sĭt leh jih klei blŭ Yêhôwa lač kơ drei. Kyuanăn boh tâo anei srăng jing sa klei hưn bi kdơ̆ng hŏng diih, huĭdah diih ngă klei luar hŏng Aê Diê diih.”
28Snăn Y-Yôsuê bi wĭt phung ƀuôn sang, grăp čô kơ ngăn dưn ñu pô.
Klei Y-Yôsuê leh anăn Êlêasar Djiê
(KPKđi 2:6-10)
31Phung Israel mă bruă kơ Yêhôwa jih ênuk Y-Yôsuê leh anăn jih ênuk phung khua mduôn dôk hdĭp sui hĭn kơ Y-Yôsuê, thâo leh jih klei Yêhôwa ngă leh kơ phung Israel.
32 Klang Y-Yôsep phung ƀuôn sang Israel mă ba mơ̆ng čar Êjip arăng dơr ti ƀuôn Sičem, hlăm kdriêk lăn Y-Yakôp blei mơ̆ng phung anak êkei Y-Hamôr ama kơ Y-Sičem hŏng ênoh sa êtuh klŏ prăk; lăn anăn jing ngăn dưn phung anak čô Y-Yôsep.
33Y-Êlêasar anak êkei Y-Arôn djiê; arăng dơr ñu ti ƀuôn Gibêa, ƀuôn điêt Y-Phinêas anak êkei ñu, lăn anăn arăng brei kơ ñu hlăm čar kngư Êphraim.