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Joshua · read by Tom Bentley
99 verses, in order. Only the verses Tom read aloud are shown.
Joshua 1
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Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying,Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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"Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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Be strong and courageous, for you shall give these people the inheritance of the land that I swore to their fathers I would give them.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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So they answered Joshua, "Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words, all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!"Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
Joshua 2
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Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, "Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho." So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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Then the two men started back, came down from the hill country, and crossed the river. So they came to Joshua son of Nun and reported all that had happened to them.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
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"The LORD has surely delivered the entire land into our hands," they said to Joshua. "Indeed, all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of us."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 1,2
Joshua 3
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Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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and commanded the people: "When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you are to set out from your positions and follow it.Read from NKJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before."Read from NKJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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Then Joshua told the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: 'When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.'"Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge,Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea ) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
Joshua 4
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When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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"Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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and command them: 'Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.'"Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, 'What do these stones mean to you?'Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "In the future, when your children ask their fathers, 'What is the meaning of these stones?'Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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you are to tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
Joshua 5
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Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, "Are You for us or for our enemies?"Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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"Neither," He replied. "I have now come as Commander of the LORD's army." Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, "What does my Lord have to say to His servant?"Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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The Commander of the LORD's army replied, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
Joshua 6
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Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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And the LORD said to Joshua, "Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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Have seven priests carry seven rams' horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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And when there is a long blast of the ram's horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, "Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams' horns in front of the ark of the LORD."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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But Joshua had commanded the people: "Do not give a battle cry or let your voice be heard; do not let one word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you are to shout!"Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests took the ark of the LORD.Read from NKJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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And the seven priests carrying seven rams' horns kept marching ahead of the ark of the LORD and blowing the horns. The armed troops went in front of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the horns kept sounding.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
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Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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So when the rams' horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 3-5
Joshua 7
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The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, "Go up and spy out the land." So the men went up and spied out Ai.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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On returning to Joshua, they reported, "There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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But the LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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"It is true," Achan replied, "I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I did:Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
Joshua 8
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Joshua got up early the next morning and mobilized his men, and he and the elders of Israel marched before them up to Ai.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city." So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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and as soon as he did so, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They rushed forward, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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Joshua did not draw back the hand that held his battle lance until he had devoted to destruction all who lived in Ai.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
Joshua 9
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Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
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Then the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD.Read from KJV · Joshua - Chapters 6-9
Joshua 10
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Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction —doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: "Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us."Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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So Joshua and his whole army, including all the mighty men of valor, came from Gilgal.Read from NKJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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The LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand. Not one of them shall stand against you."Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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"Do not be afraid or discouraged," Joshua said. "Be strong and courageous, for the LORD will do this to all the enemies you fight."Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
Joshua 13
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To the tribe of Levi, however, Moses had given no inheritance. The offerings made by fire to the LORD, the God of Israel, are their inheritance, just as He had promised them.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
Joshua 14
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Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
Joshua 23
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A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. "I am old and well along in years," he said,Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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"and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.Read from NKJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
Joshua 24
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Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!"Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.Read from ESV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph's descendants.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters
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Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.Read from KJV · Joshua - Concluding Chapters