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Then Joshuagatheredall 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 beforeGod.
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Joshuasaid to all the people, "Thussays the LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancienttimes your fatherslivedbeyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they servedothergods.
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'Then I took your fatherAbraham from beyond* the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac.
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'But when they cried out to the LORD, He putdarknessbetween you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyessawwhat I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for a longtime.
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'Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites who livedbeyond the Jordan, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you tookpossession of their land when I destroyed them before you.
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'You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jerichofought against you, and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand.
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'I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and citieswhich you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olivegroveswhich you did not plant.'