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JPS Old Testament

Joshua 24:28

So Joshua sent the people away, every man unto his inheritance.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covenant;   Shechem;   Thompson Chain Reference - Inheritance;   Israel;   Israel's Inheritance;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Shechem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Judges, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Joshua;   Joshua, the Book of;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Shechem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Gerizim;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Elders;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;   Judges, Book of:;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Shechem;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
Hebrew Names Version
So Yehoshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
King James Version
So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
Lexham English Bible
Then Joshua sent the people away to their inheritance.
English Standard Version
So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
New Century Version
Then Joshua sent the people back to their land.
New English Translation
When Joshua dismissed the people, they went to their allotted portions of land.
Amplified Bible
Then Joshua sent the people away, each to [the territory of] his inheritance.
New American Standard Bible
Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ioshua let the people depart, euery man vnto his inheritance.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance.
Contemporary English Version
Joshua sent everyone back to their homes.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Y'hoshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
Darby Translation
And Joshua dismissed the people, every man to his inheritance.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joshua told the people to go home. So everyone went back to his own land.
George Lamsa Translation
And after Joshua had charged the people, he sent them away, every man to his inheritance.
Good News Translation
Then Joshua sent the people away, and everyone returned to their own part of the land.
Literal Translation
And Joshua sent the people away, each to his inheritance.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Iosua let the people go euery one to his enheritauce.
American Standard Version
So Joshua sent the people away, every man unto his inheritance.
Bible in Basic English
Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Iosuah let the people depart, euery man vnto his inheritaunce.
King James Version (1611)
So Ioshua let the people depart, euery man vnto his inheritance.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua dismissed the people, and they went every man to his place.
English Revised Version
So Joshua sent the people away, every man unto his inheritance.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And he lefte the puple, ech man in to his possessioun.
Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua sendeth the people away, each to his inheritance.
Update Bible Version
So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his inheritance.
World English Bible
So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
New King James Version
So Joshua let the people depart, each to his own inheritance.
New Living Translation
Then Joshua sent all the people away to their own homelands.
New Life Bible
Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own land.
New Revised Standard
So Joshua sent the people away to their inheritances.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Joshua sent the people away, every man unto his inheritance.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he sent the people away every one to their own possession,
Revised Standard Version
So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
THE MESSAGE
Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his own place of inheritance.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance.

Contextual Overview

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 beyond the River, 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: 'Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 for the LORD our God, He it is that brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and that did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed; 18 and the LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land; therefore we also will serve the LORD; for He is our God.' 19 And Joshua said unto the people: 'Ye cannot serve the LORD; for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression nor your sins. 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you evil, 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 the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD, the God of Israel.' 24 And the people said unto Joshua: 'The LORD our God will we serve, and unto His voice will we hearken.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Judges 2:6

Cross-References

Genesis 24:48
And I bowed my head, and prostrated myself before the LORD, and blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter for his son.
Genesis 24:55
And her brother and her mother said: 'Let the damsel abide with us a few days, at the least ten; after that she shall go.'
Genesis 24:67
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted for his mother.
Genesis 31:33
And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. Dismissed them, and took his final leave and farewell of them, dying soon after; upon which they returned to the possessions and inheritances assigned by lot to the several tribes, of which they were the heads and princes.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 28. So Joshua — After this verse the Septuagint insert Joshua 24:31.


 
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