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| [1]Congregavitque Josue omnes tribus Israël in Sichem, et vocavit majores natu, ac principes, et judices, et magistros: steteruntque in conspectu Domini: |
[1]And Joshua assembled again all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called the elders of Israel, and their heads, and their judges, and their officers, and they presented themselves before God. |
| [2]et ad populum sic locutus est: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël: Trans fluvium habitaverunt patres vestri ab initio, Thare pater Abraham et Nachor: servieruntque diis alienis. |
[2]Then Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt beyond the flood in old time, even Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor, and served other gods. |
| [3]Tuli ergo patrem vestrum Abraham de Mesopotamiæ finibus, et adduxi eum in terram Chanaan, multiplicavique semen ejus, |
[3]And I took your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and brought him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. |
| [4]et dedi ei Isaac: illique rursum dedi Jacob et Esau. E quibus, Esau dedi montem Seir ad possidendum: Jacob vero et filii ejus descenderunt in Ægyptum. |
[4]And I gave onto Isaac, Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. |
| [5]Misique Moysen et Aaron, et percussi Ægyptum multis signis atque portentis. |
[5]I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt: and when I had so done among them, I brought you out. |
| [6]Eduxique vos et patres vestros de Ægypto, et venistis ad mare: persecutique sunt Ægyptii patres vestros cum curribus et equitatu, usque ad mare Rubrum. |
[6]So I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came unto the sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red Sea. |
| [7]Clamaverunt autem ad Dominum filii Israël: qui posuit tenebras inter vos et Ægyptios, et adduxit super eos mare, et operuit eos. Viderunt oculi vestri cuncta quæ in Ægypto fecerim, et habitastis in solitudine multo tempore: |
[7]Then they cried unto the Lord, and he put a darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them: so your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: also ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season. |
| [8]et introduxi vos in terram Amorrhæi, qui habitabat trans Jordanem. Cumque pugnarent contra vos, tradidi eos in manus vestras, et possedistis terram eorum, atque interfecistis eos. |
[8]After, I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt beyond Jordan, and they fought with you: but I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their country, and I destroyed them out of your sight. |
| [9]Surrexit autem Balac filius Sephor rex Moab, et pugnavit contra Israëlem. Misitque et vocavit Balaam filium Beor, ut malediceret vobis: |
[9]Also Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab arose and warred against Israel, and sent to call Balaam the son of Beor for to curse you, |
| [10]et ego nolui audire eum, sed e contrario per illum benedixi vobis, et liberavi vos de manu ejus. |
[10]But I would not hear Balaam: therefore he blessed you, and I delivered you out of his hand. |
| [11]Transistisque Jordanem, et venistis ad Jericho. Pugnaveruntque contra vos viri civitatis ejus, Amorrhæus et Pherezæus, et Chananæus, et Hethæus, et Gergezæus, et Hevæus, et Jebusæus: et tradidi illos in manus vestras. |
[11]And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho, and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand. |
| [12]Misique ante vos crabrones: et ejeci eos de locis suis, duos reges Amorrhæorum, non in gladio nec in arcu tuo. |
[12]And I sent hornets before you, which cast them out before you, even the two kings of the Amorites, and not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. |
| [13]Dedique vobis terram, in qua non laborastis, et urbes quas non ædificastis, ut habitaretis in eis: vineas, et oliveta, quæ non plantastis. |
[13]And I have given you a land, wherein ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them, and eat of the vineyards and olive trees, which ye planted not. |
| [14]Nunc ergo timete Dominum, et servite ei perfecto corde atque verissimo: et auferte deos quibus servierunt patres vestri in Mesopotamia et in Ægypto, ac servite Domino. |
[14]Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in uprightness and in truth, and put away the gods, which your fathers served beyond the flood and in Egypt, and serve ye the Lord. |
| [15]Sin autem malum vobis videtur ut Domino serviatis, optio vobis datur: eligite hodie quod placet, cui servire potissimum debeatis: utrum diis, quibus servierunt patres vestri in Mesopotamia, an diis Amorrhæorum, in quorum terra habitatis: ego autem et domus mea serviemus Domino. |
[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 flood) or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but I and mine house will serve the Lord. |
| [16]Responditque populus, et ait: Absit a nobis ut relinquamus Dominum, et serviamus diis alienis. |
[16]Then the people answered and said, God forbid, that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods. |
| [17]Dominus Deus noster ipse eduxit nos, et patres nostros, de terra Ægypti, de domo servitutis: fecitque videntibus nobis signa ingentia, et custodivit nos in omni via, per quam ambulavimus, et in cunctis populis, per quos transivimus. |
[17]For the Lord our God, he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and he did those great miracles in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the people through whom we came. |
| [18]Et ejecit universas gentes, Amorrhæum habitatorem terræ, quam nos intravimus. Serviemus igitur Domino, quia ipse est Deus noster. |
[18]And the Lord did cast out before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord, for he is our God. |
| [19]Dixitque Josue ad populum: Non poteritis servire Domino: Deus enim sanctus et fortis æmulator est, nec ignoscet sceleribus vestris atque peccatis. |
[19]And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God: he is a jealous God: he will not pardon your iniquity nor your sins. |
| [20]Si dimiseritis Dominum, et servieritis diis alienis, convertet se, et affliget vos, atque subvertet postquam vobis præstiterit bona. |
[20]If ye forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, then he will return and bring evil upon you, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. |
| [21]Dixitque populus ad Josue: Nequaquam ita ut loqueris erit, sed Domino serviemus. |
[21]And the people said unto Joshua, Nay, but we will serve the Lord. |
| [22]Et Josue ad populum: Testes, inquit, vos estis, quia ipsi elegeritis vobis Dominum ut serviatis ei. Responderuntque: Testes. |
[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]Nunc ergo, ait, auferte deos alienos de medio vestri, et inclinate corda vestra ad Dominum Deum Israël. |
[23]Then put away now, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and bow your hearts unto the Lord God of Israel. |
| [24]Dixitque populus ad Josue: Domino Deo nostro serviemus, et obedientes erimus præceptis ejus. |
[24]And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. |
| [25]Percussit ergo Josue in die illo fœdus, et proposuit populo præcepta atque judicia in Sichem. |
[25]So Joshua made a covenant with the people the same day, and gave them an ordinance and law in Shechem. |
| [26]Scripsit quoque omnia verba hæc in volumine legis Domini: et tulit lapidem pergrandem, posuitque eum subter quercum, quæ erat in sanctuario Domini: |
[26]And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and pitched it there under an oak that was in the sanctuary of the Lord. |
| [27]et dixit ad omnem populum: En lapis iste erit vobis in testimonium, quod audierit omnia verba Domini, quæ locutus est vobis: ne forte postea negare velitis, et mentiri Domino Deo vestro. |
[27]And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us: for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake with us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny your God. |
| [28]Dimisitque populum, singulos in possessionem suam. |
[28]Then Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. |
| [29]Et post hæc mortuus est Josue filius Nun servus Domini, centum et decem annorum: |
[29]And after these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord died, being an hundred and ten years old. |
| [30]sepelieruntque eum in finibus possessionis suæ in Thamnathsare, quæ est sita in monte Ephraim, a septentrionali parte montis Gaas. |
[30]And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaash. |
| [31]Servivitque Israël Domino cunctis diebus Josue et seniorum, qui longo vixerunt tempore post Josue, et qui noverunt omnia opera Domini quæ fecerat in Israël. |
[31]And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that over lived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord that he had done for Israel. |
| [32]Ossa quoque Joseph, quæ tulerant filii Israël de Ægypto, sepelierunt in Sichem, in parte agri quem emerat Jacob a filiis Hemor patris Sichem, centum novellis ovibus, et fuit in possessionem filiorum Joseph. |
[32]And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem, for an hundred pieces of silver, and the children of Joseph had them in their inheritance. |
| [33]Eleazar quoque filius Aaron mortuus est: et sepelierunt eum in Gabaath Phinees filii ejus, quæ data est ei in monte Ephraim. |
[33]Also Eleazar the son of Aaron died, whom they buried in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim. |