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Remember our sin at Peor, when the Lord punished his own people with an epidemic? We are still suffering because of that. Wasn't that sin enough?

Now then, if your land is not fit to worship in, come over into the Lord 's land, where his Tent is. Claim some land among us. But don't rebel against the Lord or make rebels out of us by building an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.

Remember how Achan son of Zerah refused to obey the command about the things condemned to destruction; the whole community of Israel was punished for that. Achan was not the only one who died because of his sin."

but instead, as a sign for our people and yours, and for the generations after us, that we do indeed worship the Lord before his sacred Tent with our offerings to be burned and with sacrifices and fellowship offerings. This was to keep your descendants from saying that ours have nothing to do with the Lord .

We would certainly not rebel against the Lord or stop following him now by building an altar to burn offerings on or for grain offerings or sacrifices. We would not build any other altar than the altar of the Lord our God that stands in front of the Tent of his presence."

"Now my time has come to die. Every one of you knows in his heart and soul that the Lord your God has given you all the good things that he promised. Every promise he made has been kept; not one has failed.

If you do not keep the covenant which the Lord your God commanded you to keep and if you serve and worship other gods, then in his anger he will punish you, and soon none of you will be left in this good land that he has given you."

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Edom as his possession, but your ancestor Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

The people then said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God. We will obey his commands."

They buried him on his own land at Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.

As long as Joshua lived, the people of Israel served the Lord , and after his death they continued to do so as long as those leaders were alive who had seen for themselves everything that the Lord had done for Israel.

Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, the town in the hill country of Ephraim which had been given to his son Phinehas.

He ran away, but they chased him, caught him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.

Othniel, the son of Caleb's younger brother Kenaz, captured the city, so Caleb gave him his daughter Achsah in marriage.

So he showed them, and the people of Ephraim and Manasseh killed everyone in the city, except this man and his family.

Joshua sent the people of Israel on their way, and each man went to take possession of his own share of the land.

As long as Joshua lived, the people of Israel served the Lord , and even after his death they continued to do so as long as the leaders were alive who had seen for themselves all the great things that the Lord had done for Israel.

He was buried in his own part of the land at Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.

Ehud had made himself a double-edged sword about a foot and a half long. He had it fastened on his right side under his clothes.

But Ehud himself turned back at the carved stones near Gilgal, went back to Eglon, and said, "Your Majesty, I have a secret message for you." So the king ordered his servants, "Leave us alone!" And they all went out.