书24:1 约书亚在示剑召集以色列各支派，又把以色列的长老、首领、审判官和官长都召了来，他们就站在 神面前。
书24:1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
书24:2 约书亚对众民说：“耶和华以色列的 神这样说：‘古时你们的列祖，就是亚伯拉罕和拿鹤的父亲他拉，住在大河那边；他们事奉别的神。
书24:2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
书24:3 我把你们的祖先亚伯拉罕，从大河那边带来，领他走遍迦南地，使他的后裔增多，把以撒赐给他；
书24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.
书24:4 又把雅各和以扫赐给以撒，把西珥山赐给以扫作产业；雅各和他的子孙却下到埃及去。
书24:4 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
书24:5 我差派了摩西和亚伦，借着我在埃及所行的神迹，用灾疫击打埃及，然后把你们领出来。
书24:5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.
书24:6 我领你们的列祖离开埃及，他们去到海边；埃及人带着战车和马兵，追赶你们的列祖直到红海。
书24:6 I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen.
书24:7 你们的列祖呼求耶和华，他就以黑暗隔开你们和埃及人，又使海水复流淹没了他们；我在埃及所行的事，你们都亲眼见过；你们在旷野也住了许多日子。
书24:7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
书24:8 我领你们到了住在约旦河东的亚摩利人的地，他们和你们争战，我把他们交在你们手里，你们就得了他们的地作产业；我也在你们面前把他们消灭。
书24:8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.
书24:9 那时摩押王西拨的儿子巴勒起来攻击以色列人；他派人把比珥的儿子巴兰召了来，咒诅你们。
书24:9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:
书24:10 我不肯听巴兰的话，结果他反而一而再祝福你们；这样，我就救了你们脱离他的手。
书24:10 But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.
书24:11 你们过了约旦河，来到耶利哥；耶利哥的居民与你们作战，还有亚摩利人、比利洗人、迦南人、赫人、革迦撒人、希未人、耶布斯人，也跟你们作战；我把他们都交在你们手里。
书24:11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.
书24:12 我派了黄蜂飞在你们前面，把亚摩利人的两个王从你们面前赶走，并不是用你的刀，也不是用你的弓。
书24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.
书24:13 我赐给你们的土地，不是你们劳苦开垦的；我赐给你们的城市，不是你们建造的，你们却住在城中；你们享用的葡萄园和橄榄园，也不是你们栽种的。’
书24:13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.
书24:14 “现在你们要敬畏耶和华，真诚地按着真理事奉他，把你们列祖在大河那边和在埃及事奉的神除掉，去事奉耶和华。
书24:14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
书24:15 如果你们认为事奉耶和华不好，那么今日你们就可以选择你们所要事奉的：是你们列祖在大河那边事奉的神呢，还是你们现在所住亚摩利人之地的神呢？至于我和父家，我们必事奉耶和华。”
书24:15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
书24:16 众民回答：“我们绝对不会离弃耶和华，去事奉别的神；
书24:16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
书24:17 因为耶和华我们的 神把我们和我们的列祖，从埃及地为奴的家领出来，并且在我们眼前行了那些伟大的神迹；又在我们所行的一切路上，和我们经过的一切民族中间，他都保护了我们；
书24:17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:
书24:18 耶和华又把所有的民族和住在这地的亚摩利人，都从我们面前赶走；所以我们必事奉耶和华，因为他是我们的 神。”
书24:18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.
书24:19 约书亚对众民说：“你们不能事奉耶和华，因为他是圣洁的 神；他是嫉妒的 神，他必不赦免你们的过犯和罪恶。
书24:19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
书24:20 如果你们离弃耶和华，去事奉外族人的神，那么在耶和华赐福给你们之后，他必转而降祸与你们，把你们消灭。”
书24:20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
书24:21 众民对约书亚说：“不，我们必定事奉耶和华。”
书24:21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
书24:22 约书亚对众民说：“你们选择了耶和华，要事奉他，你们为自己作证吧。”他们说：“我们愿意作证。”
书24:22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
书24:23 约书亚说：“现在你们要除掉在你们中间外族人的神，一心归向耶和华以色列的 神。”
书24:23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
书24:24 众民对约书亚说：“我们必事奉耶和华我们的 神，必听从他的话。”
书24:24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
书24:25 那一天，约书亚就与众民立约，在示剑为他们订立律例和典章。
书24:25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
书24:26 约书亚把这些话都写在 神的律法书上；又拿一块大石头，立在耶和华圣所旁边的橡树下。
书24:26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.
书24:27 约书亚对全体人民说：“看哪，这块石头可以向我们作证，因为它听见了耶和华对我们所说的一切话；所以这块石头要向你们作证，免得你们否认你们的 神。”
书24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
书24:28 于是约书亚打发众民各自回到自己的地业去了。
书24:28 Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
书24:29 这些事以后，耶和华的仆人、嫩的儿子约书亚死了，那时他是一百一十岁。
书24:29 Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.
书24:30 以色列人把他埋葬在他自己地业的境内，就是在以法莲山地上的亭拿．西拉，在迦实山的北边。
书24:30 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash.
书24:31 约书亚在世的日子，和约书亚死后，那些知道耶和华为以色列人所行的一切事的长老还在世的日子，以色列人都事奉耶和华。
书24:31 And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.
书24:32 以色列人从埃及带出来的约瑟骸骨，葬在示剑的一块田里；这块田是雅各从前用一百块银子向示剑的父亲哈抹的子孙那里买来的；这块田就成了约瑟子孙的产业。
书24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.
书24:33 亚伦的儿子以利亚撒也死了；以色列人就把他埋葬在基比亚，就是他儿子非尼哈在以法莲山地所得的产业。
书24:33 Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.