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-\v 1 Joshua then summoned the leaders of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
-\v 2 He said to them, "You have done everything that Moses the servant of Yahweh, commanded you to do. You have also done what I commanded you to do.
+\v 1 Joshua then summoned the leaders of the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
+\v 2 He said to them, "You have done everything that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you to do. You have also done what I commanded you to do.
 \v 3 For a long time you have helped the other tribes to defeat their enemies. You have obeyed everything that Yahweh your God taught you and commanded you to do.
 
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-\v 4 He promised to give peace to your fellow Israelites, and he has done what he promised. So now you may go back to your homes, to the land that Moses gave to you, on the east side of the Jordan River.
-\v 5 Moses also commanded you to love Yahweh your God and to live your life as he wants you to live. He told you to obey his commands, to trust in him and to turn away from all others. Do this as you worship him and serve him by everything that you think and everything that you do."
+\v 4 He promised to give peace to your fellow Israelites, and he has done what he promised. So now you may go back to your homes, to the land that Moses gave to you on the east side of the Jordan River.
+\v 5 Moses also commanded you to love Yahweh your God and to live your life as he wants you to live. He told you to obey his commands, to trust in him, and to turn away from all others. Do this as you worship him and serve him by everything that you think and everything that you do."
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 \v 6 Then Joshua blessed them and sent them away, so they went back to their tents.
 
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 \v 7 Moses had given the region of Bashan, to the east of the Jordan River, to one-half of the tribe of Manasseh, and Joshua had given land on the west side of the Jordan River to the other half of that tribe. When Joshua sent them away to their tents, he asked God to bless them.
-\v 8 He said to them, "Go back to your tents with much money with many animals and silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with many beautiful clothes. But you should share the plunder from your enemies with your brothers and sisters."
+\v 8 He said to them, "Go back to your tents with much money and with many animals and with silver, gold, bronze, and iron and with many beautiful clothes. But you should share the plunder from your enemies with your brothers and sisters."
 
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-\v 13 But first, the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar and the leader of all the priests, to talk with the people of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh.
+\v 13 But first, the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar and the leader of all the priests to talk with the people of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
 \v 14 They also sent one leader from each of the ten tribes of Israel west of the Jordan River. Each of the leaders was an important leader in his own clan.
 
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-\v 19 "If you think that Yahweh considers your land here is not suitable for worshiping him, come back to our land, where Yahweh's sacred tent is. We can share our land with you. But do not rebel against Yahweh or against us by building another altar for Yahweh our God.
+\v 19 "If you think that Yahweh considers your land here is not suitable for worshiping him, come back to our land where Yahweh's sacred tent is. We can share our land with you. But do not rebel against Yahweh or against us by building another altar for Yahweh our God.
 \v 20 Surely you remember what happened when Zerah's son Achan refused to obey Yahweh's command to destroy everything in Jericho? That one man disobeyed God's command, but many other Israelites were punished for what he did."
 
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 \v 21 The leaders of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh replied,
 \v 22 "Yahweh, the almighty God, knows why we did that, and we want you to know, too. If we have not been faithful to our promise to serve Yahweh, do not have any mercy on us, but take our lives.
-\v 23 If we have built this altar so we can stop obeying Yahweh, or if we have built this altar to offer sacrifices, grain offerings, or sacrifices to promise friendship with him, in violation of the law, may Yahweh punish us and even take our lives.
+\v 23 If we have built this altar so we can stop obeying Yahweh, or if we have built this altar to offer burned sacrifices, grain offerings, or sacrifices to promise friendship with him, in violation of the law, may Yahweh punish us and even take our lives.
 
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 \v 26 So we said, 'Let us now build an altar, but not for bringing sacrifices nor for any offerings.
-\v 27 Instead, we want it to be a monument to prove to you, to ourselves, and to all of our descendants after us, that we truly worship Yahweh. We indeed worship him by our burned sacrifices and our offerings, and our offerings to promise friendship with him. We built this altar so your descendants may never say to our descendants in the future, "Yahweh never gave you any portion of this land; you do not belong here."'
+\v 27 Instead, we want it to be a monument to prove to you, to ourselves, and to all of our descendants after us that we truly worship Yahweh. We indeed worship him by our burned sacrifices and our offerings and our sacrifices to promise friendship with him. We built this altar so your descendants may never say to our descendants in the future, "Yahweh never gave you any portion of this land; you do not belong here."'
 
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 \v 28 In the future, if your descendants say that, our descendants can say, 'Look at the altar that our ancestors made! It is exactly like Yahweh's altar at Shiloh, but we do not burn sacrifices on it. It is a monument which means that we and you together worship Yahweh!'
-\v 29 We certainly do not want to rebel against Yahweh or stop doing what he desires. This altar was never intended to be used for the sacrifices, for burning flour offerings or for making other sacrifices. We know that there is only one true altar for Yahweh our God and that it is in front of the sacred tent."
+\v 29 We certainly do not want to rebel against Yahweh or stop doing what he desires. This altar was never intended to be used for the burned sacrifices, for burning flour offerings, or for making other sacrifices. We know that there is only one true altar for Yahweh our God and that it is in front of the sacred tent."
 
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 \v 30 When Phinehas the priest and the other ten leaders of the people of Israel heard what the people of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh said, they were pleased.
-\v 31 So Phinehas said to them, "Now we know that Yahweh is with all of us Israelites, and that you were not rebelling against him when you built that altar. Because what you did did not break Yahweh's laws, we are sure that he will not punish us.
+\v 31 So Phinehas said to them, "Now we know that Yahweh is with all of us Israelites and that you were not rebelling against him when you built that altar. Because what you did did not break Yahweh's laws, we are sure that he will not punish us.
 
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-\v 32 Then Phinehas and the Israelite leaders left the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in the region of Gilead, and returned to Canaan. There they told the other Israelites what had happened.
+\v 32 Then Phinehas and the Israelite leaders left the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in the region of Gilead and returned to Canaan. There they told the other Israelites what had happened.
 \v 33 They were pleased, and they thanked God. They did not talk anymore about fighting against the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and destroying everything in their land.
 
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-\v 1 A long time later, by the time Yahweh had allowed the Israelites to live in peace, without fearing any longer any enemies, Joshua had become very old.
+\v 1 A long time later, by the time Yahweh had allowed the Israelites to live in peace without fearing any enemies any longer, Joshua had become very old.
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 \v 2 Joshua called for all of Israel's elders and leaders, together with their judges and officers, to come and listen to him. When they arrived, he began to speak to them: "I am now very old.
 \v 3 We have all seen what Yahweh our God has done to all the nations in this land. Yahweh our God has fought for us.
 
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 \v 4 I have given to you the nations that remain. Their lands will also be your permanent possession for the tribes of Israel, just as are the lands of the peoples that our people destroyed when I was leading them—all those other nations that the Israelites destroyed from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea when I was the leader.
-\v 5 Yahweh your God will force those people out from their lands. He will capture their lands from them, in order that you might settle down in those lands. This is what he has promised to do for you.
+\v 5 Yahweh your God will force those people out from their lands. He will capture their lands from them so that you might settle down in those lands. This is what he has promised to do for you.
 
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-\v 6 Pay careful attention so that you obey all that are written in the book of laws that Moses wrote down. Do not disobey them or change any of them.
-\v 7 If you obey the law of Moses, you will not mix our people with those peoples. Do not even mention the names of their gods, and do use the names of their gods when you make promises or take oaths. Do not worship those gods or bow down to them.
+\v 6 Pay careful attention so that you obey all that is written in the book of laws that Moses wrote down. Do not disobey them or change any of them.
+\v 7 If you obey the law of Moses, you will not mix our people with those peoples. Do not even mention the names of their gods, and do not use the names of their gods when you make promises or take oaths. Do not worship those gods or bow down to them.
 \v 8 Love Yahweh and trust in him, as you have been doing. Do not stop worshiping him.
 
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 \v 9 Yahweh has forced many great and powerful nations to get out of your way as you advanced. No one has been able to stop you.
-\v 10 Any single soldier among you will be able to cause a thousand men of war in the army of your enemy, to run away, because Yahweh your God fights for you. That is what he promised to do.
+\v 10 Any single soldier among you will be able to cause a thousand men of war in the army of your enemy to run away, because Yahweh your God fights for you. That is what he promised to do.
 \v 11 So do all you can to love Yahweh your God.
 
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-\v 12 However, if you stop doing what Yahweh desires; if you associate with those peoples who survived the wars with our people, or if you marry them and become their friends, and if they become friends with you,
-\v 13 then you can be sure that Yahweh our God will not help you force them out of your land. They will become like traps that will catch you. They will be like whips that strike your backs, and like thorns that will stick you in the eye. Your people will become weaker and weaker until you die out in this land, this very good land that Yahweh our God has given to us.
+\v 12 However, if you stop doing what Yahweh desires—if you associate with those peoples who survived the wars with our people or if you marry them and become their friends and they become friends with you—
+\v 13 then you can be sure that Yahweh our God will not help you force them out of your land. They will become like traps that will catch you. They will be like whips that strike your backs and like thorns that will stick you in the eye. Your people will become weaker and weaker until you die out in this land, this very good land that Yahweh our God has given to us.
 
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-\v 14 It is almost time for me to die, like everyone else does. You know deep within you, that every single thing that Yahweh promised to do for you, he has done it.
+\v 14 It is almost time for me to die, like everyone else does. You know deep within you that every single thing that Yahweh promised to do for you, he has done it.
 \v 15 He has given to you all the good things he promised. In the same way, the other things that he promised, things that are not good, will also happen if you do what is evil. In that case he will take your lives and your land away from you.
 
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 \v 3 But I took your ancestor Abraham, and I led him into the land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants through his son Isaac.
-\v 4 I gave Isaac his own sons, Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Edom as his own, but I sent Jacob and his children went down to Egypt, where they lived for many years.
+\v 4 I gave Isaac his own sons, Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Edom as his own, but I sent Jacob and his children down to Egypt where they lived for many years.
 
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 \v 5 I sent Moses and his brother Aaron to Egypt, and I caused the people of Egypt to suffer many terrible plagues. After that, I brought your people out of Egypt.
-\v 6 When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, they came to the sea. The Egyptian army pursued them with chariots and on horseback, as far as the Sea of Reeds."
+\v 6 When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, they came to the sea. The Egyptian army pursued them with chariots and on horseback, as far as the Sea of Reeds.'"
 
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 \v 7 Joshua continued to speak: "When you pleaded to Yahweh for help, he caused darkness to come between the nation of Israel and the Egyptian army, and he covered the Egyptian army with the waters of the sea so that your enemies were drowned. This is what Yahweh says: 'You saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the desert for many years.
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 \v 12 I am the one who caused them to panic. They acted as if they were being chased by hornets. And you drove out the two kings of the Amorites as your army moved ahead and pushed them away. But it was not because of your swords or your bows and arrows, but it was because that I, Yahweh, was fighting on your side.
 
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-\v 13 So I gave you a land that you had not cleared or plowed, and I gave you cities that you did not build. Now you live in those cities, and you eat the grapes from grapevines that you did not plant, and you eat olives from trees that you did not plant.'
+\v 13 So I gave you a land that you had not cleared or plowed, and I gave you cities that you did not build. Now you live in those cities, and you eat the grapes from grapevines that you did not plant, and you eat olives from trees that you did not plant.'"
 
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-\v 14 Joshua continued to speak: "Now be afraid and be in awe of Yahweh. Worship him sincerely, and be faithful when you make promises to him. Throw away the idols that your ancestors worshiped when they lived on the far side of the Euphrates River, and when they lived in Egypt. Worship Yahweh alone.
+\v 14 Joshua continued to speak: "Now be afraid and be in awe of Yahweh. Worship him sincerely, and be faithful when you make promises to him. Throw away the idols that your ancestors worshiped when they lived on the far side of the Euphrates River and when they lived in Egypt. Worship Yahweh alone.
 \v 15 If you do not want to worship Yahweh, then decide today what gods you will worship. In that case, you must decide whether you will worship the gods of your ancestors, the gods that they worshiped when they lived on the other side of the Euphrates River, or whether you will worship the gods of the Amorites, the gods that those people worshiped in this land where you now live. But as for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh."
 
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 \v 16 The Israelite people answered, "We will always worship Yahweh! We promise that we will never worship or bow down to any other gods!
-\v 17 It was Yahweh who brought our ancestors up out of Egypt. He rescued us from that land, where they were slaves. We saw him perform great miracles, and he protected us when we were traveling. He protected us wherever we went; he kept us safe from the armies of many kings. We became a great nation, and we have entered this land.
-\v 18 Yahweh drove out all the people before us. He defeated the Amorites, who lived in the land. So we will worship and bow down to Yahweh, for he is our God."
+\v 17 It was Yahweh who brought our ancestors up out of Egypt. He rescued us from that land where they were slaves. We saw him perform great miracles, and he protected us when we were traveling. He protected us wherever we went; he kept us safe from the armies of many kings. We became a great nation, and we have entered this land.
+\v 18 Yahweh drove out all the peoples before us. He defeated the Amorites who lived in the land. So we will worship and bow down to Yahweh, for he is our God."
 
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 \v 19 But Joshua replied to the people, "You cannot serve Yahweh! He is a holy God, and he will not allow you to worship other gods. He will not forgive you for breaking his laws, or when you sin,
-\v 20 if you forsake Yahweh and worship other gods. If you forget him, he will turn and do the same harm to you as he did to your enemies, and he will burn you as with fire! He will do all this to, after he has been so good to you—if you turn your back on him and leave him."
+\v 20 if you forsake Yahweh and worship other gods. If you forget him, he will turn and do the same harm to you as he did to your enemies, and he will burn you as with fire! He will do all this to you after he has been so good to you—if you turn your back on him and leave him."
 
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 \v 21 But the people answered Joshua, "No, we will worship Yahweh."
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 \v 22 Then Joshua said, "You are bearing witness to what you have said. You have chosen Yahweh and you are promising to worship him alone." They replied, "Yes, that is what we promise to do."
-\v 23 Then Joshua said, "You must throw away all the other idols you have with you, and with all the strength you have within you, you must turn to Yahweh and worship him as your God, and no other."
+\v 23 Then Joshua said, "You must throw away all the other idols you have with you, and with all the strength you have within you, you must turn to Yahweh and worship him as your God and no other."
 
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-\v 24 The people replied, "We will worship Yahweh, our God, and we will obey him alone."
+\v 24 The people replied, "We will worship Yahweh our God and we will obey him alone."
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 \v 25 On that same day, Joshua made a covenant with the people. There at Shechem, he wrote down for them all the decrees and laws that Yahweh commanded them to obey.
 \v 26 He wrote down all the words that were in the book of the law of God. He took a great stone and set it up there at Shechem, under the large oak tree that grew beside the place where they worshiped Yahweh.
 
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-\v 27 Joshua said to all the people, "Look! This stone will bear testimony against us. This is the place where we promised that we would serve Yahweh. This stone will be a place to remember our promise to Yahweh, and a place to remind us of what will happen to us if we do not keep our promise to God."
+\v 27 Joshua said to all the people, "Look! This stone will bear testimony against us. This is the place where we promised that we would serve Yahweh. This stone will be a place to remember our promise to Yahweh and a place to remind us of what will happen to us if we do not keep our promise to God."
 \v 28 Then Joshua sent the people away, and they went to the places that were assigned to them.
 
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 \v 29 After these things happened, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died. He was 110 years old when he died.
-\v 30 They buried his body on his own property in Timnathserah. It is in the north hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
+\v 30 They buried his body on his own property in Timnath Serah. It is in the north hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
 
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 \v 31 The people of Israel worshiped Yahweh as long as the elders who had served with Joshua were alive; they had seen everything that Yahweh had done for Israel.
 
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 \v 32 Joseph's bones, which the people of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought long ago for the price of one hundred pieces of silver. He had bought it from Hamor, the father of Shechem. That piece of land became a permanent possession for Joseph's descendants.
-\v 33 Eleazar son of Aaron, also died. They buried his body at Gibeah, the city that belonged to Phinehas, his son, in the hill country of Ephraim.
+\v 33 Eleazar son of Aaron also died. They buried his body at Gibeah, the city that belonged to Phinehas his son in the hill country of Ephraim.