- 約書亞將以色列的眾支派聚集在示劍.召了以色列的長老、族長、審判官、並官長來、他們就站在 神面前.
- 約書亞對眾民說、耶和華以色列的 神如此說、古時你們的列祖、就是亞伯拉罕、和拿鶴的父親他拉、住在大河那邊事奉別神.
- 我將你們的祖宗亞伯拉罕、從大河那邊帶來、領他走遍迦南全地、又使他的子孫眾多、把以撒賜給他.
- 又把雅各和以掃賜給以撒、將西珥山賜給以掃為業.後來雅各和他的子孫下到埃及去了.
- 我差遣摩西、亞倫、並照我在埃及中所行的降災與埃及.然後把你們領出來.
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- Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
- Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.
- 'Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac.
- 'To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
- 'Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out.
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