1 Joosua kokosi Sikemiin kaikki Israelin heimot ja kutsui koolle israelilaisten vanhimmat ja päämiehet, tuomarit ja päällysmiehet. Siellä he asettuivat Jumalan eteen.

3 Minä toin Abrahamin virran toiselta puolelta ja annoin hänen kulkea eri puolilla Kanaaninmaata. Minä tein suureksi hänen jälkeläistensä määrän. Hänelle minä annoin Iisakin,

4 Iisakille annoin Jaakobin ja Esaun. Esaun omaksi minä annoin Seirin vuoriston, mutta Jaakob ja hänen poikansa muuttivat Egyptiin.

6 Minä vein teidän isänne pois Egyptistä, ja te saavuitte Kaislameren rantaan, mutta egyptiläiset ajoivat hevosineen ja sotavaunuineen teitä takaa merelle saakka.

7 Silloin isänne huusivat Herraa avuksi, ja hän asetti pimeyden erottamaan teidät egyptiläisistä ja antoi meren vyöryä egyptiläisten päälle ja hukuttaa heidät. Te saitte omin silmin nähdä, mitä minä tein egyptiläisille. Sen jälkeen te asuitte pitkän aikaa autiomaassa.

9 Sitten Moabin kuningas Balak, Sipporin poika, lähti sotaan Israelia vastaan ja kutsui Bileamin, Beorin pojan, kiroamaan israelilaiset.

10 Mutta minä en suostunut kuulemaan Bileamin kirousta, ja siksi hän joutui yhä uudelleen siunaamaan teidät. Näin minä pelastin teidät Balakin käsistä.

11 Kun te olitte ylittäneet Jordanin ja tulleet Jerikon luo, jerikolaiset taistelivat teitä vastaan, ja samoin amorilaiset, perissiläiset, kanaanilaiset, heettiläiset, girgasilaiset, hivviläiset ja jebusilaiset. Mutta minä olin teidän kanssanne ja kukistin heidät kaikki.

12 Minä lähetin teidän edellänne herhiläisparvia, ja ne karkottivat kaksi amorilaiskuningasta teidän tieltänne; teidän miekkanne ja jousenne eivät heitä karkottaneet.

13 Näin minä annoin teille maan, jota ette ole raivanneet, ja kaupungit, joita ette itse ole rakentaneet, ja te saitte asettua niihin asumaan. Minä annoin teille viinitarhoja ja oliivipuita, joita te ette ole istuttaneet mutta joiden hedelmiä te silti saatte syödä.'

17 Onhan Herra, meidän Jumalamme, tuonut meidät ja isämme tänne Egyptistä, orjuuden pesästä. Saimme omin silmin nähdä kaikki suuret tunnusteot, jotka hän teki. Hän varjeli meitä matkalla, kun kuljimme toisten kansojen maiden halki.

25 Joosua vahvisti Sikemissä kansan päätöksen palvella Herraa ja julisti kansalle tämän liiton lait ja säädökset.

26 Joosua kirjoitti ne kaikki Jumalan lain kirjaan ja pystytti suuren kiven Herran pyhässä paikassa kasvavan suuren puun juurelle.

28 Tämän jälkeen Joosua antoi israelilaisten palata kotiseuduilleen.

29 Jonkin aikaa näiden tapahtumien jälkeen Joosua, Nunin poika, Herran palvelija, kuoli sadankymmenen vuoden ikäisenä.

30 Hänet haudattiin omalle perintömaalleen Timnat-Serahiin, joka on Efraimin vuoristossa Gaasinvuoresta pohjoiseen.

31 Israelin kansa palveli Herraa koko Joosuan elinajan ja sen jälkeenkin, niin kauan kuin oli elossa vanhimpia, jotka olivat nähneet, mitä suuria tekoja Herra oli Israelin hyväksi tehnyt.

32 Joosefin luut, jotka israelilaiset olivat tuoneet Egyptistä, haudattiin Sikemiin. Hauta oli sillä maapalstalla, jonka Jaakob oli ostanut Hamorin, Sikemin isän, pojilta sadalla kesitalla hopeaa ja joka kuului Joosefin jälkeläisten perintöosaan.

33 Kun Eleasar, Aaronin poika, kuoli, hänet haudattiin Gibeaan, jonka hänen poikansa Pinehas oli saanut asuinpaikakseen Efraimin vuoristosta.

1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. 4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. 6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea. 7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season. 8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: 10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. 11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. 12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: 18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. 21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. 28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.

32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.