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It happened, when the angel of the LORD spoke these words to all the children of Yisra'el, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
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They called the name of that place Bokhim: and they sacrificed there to the LORD.
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Now when Yehoshua had sent the people away, the children of Yisra'el went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
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The people served the LORD all the days of Yehoshua, and all the days of the Zakenim who outlived Yehoshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD that he had worked for Yisra'el.
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Yehoshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
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They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnat-Heres, in the hill- country of Efrayim, on the north of the mountain of Ga`ash.
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Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know the LORD, nor yet the work which he had worked for Yisra'el.
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The children of Yisra'el did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Ba`alim;
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and they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Mitzrayim, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were round about them, and bowed themselves down to them: and they provoked the LORD to anger.
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They forsook the LORD, and served Ba`al and the `Ashtarot.
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The anger of the LORD was kindled against Yisra'el, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.