15 And [a]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 flood) or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: [b]but I and mine house will serve the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:15 Hebrew, if it be evil in your sight.
  2. Joshua 24:15 This teacheth us that if all the world would go from God, yet every one of us particularly is bound to cleave unto him.

15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites,(A) in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household,(B) we will serve the Lord.”(C)

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23 Then put away now, said he, the strange [a]gods which are among you, and bow your hearts unto the Lord God of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:23 Out of your hearts and otherwise.

23 “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods(A) that are among you and yield your hearts(B) to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

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