Then Joshua called all Israel, and their Elders, and their Heads, and their Judges, and their officers, and said unto them, I am old, and stricken in age.

Also ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto all these nations [a]before you, how the Lord your God himself hath fought for you.

Behold, I have [b]divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance according to your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have destroyed, even unto the great Sea [c]Westward.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 23:3 Your eyes bearing witness.
  2. Joshua 23:4 Or, overthrown those nations.
  3. Joshua 23:4 Hebrew, at the sunset.

summoned all Israel—their elders,(A) leaders, judges and officials(B)—and said to them: “I am very old.(C) You yourselves have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the Lord your God who fought for you.(D) Remember how I have allotted(E) as an inheritance(F) for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea(G) in the west.

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