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And an angel of the Lord went up from Galgal to the weeping, and to Baethel, and to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus says the Lord, I brought you up out of Egypt, and I brought you into the land which I sware to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant that I have made with you.
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And ye shall make no covenant with them that dwell in this land, neither shall ye worship their gods; but ye shall destroy their graven images, ye shall pull down their altars: but ye hearkened not to my voice, for ye did these things.
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And I said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be for a distress to you, and their gods shall be to you for an offence.
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And it came to pass when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
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And they named the name of that place Weepings; and they sacrificed there to the Lord.
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And Joshua dismissed the people, and they went every man to his inheritance, to inherit the land.
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And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that lived many days with Joshua, as many as knew all the great work of the Lord, what things he had wrought in Israel.
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And Joshua the son of Naue, the servant of the Lord, died, a hundred and ten years old.
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance, in Thamnathares, in mount Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaas.
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And all that generation were laid to their fathers: and another generation rose up after them, who knew not the Lord, nor yet the work which he wrought in Israel.
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And the children of Israel wrought evil before the Lord, and served Baalim.