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The angel of Yahweh came up from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you to the land which I swore to your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you:
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and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars. But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?
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Therefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be [as thorns] in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
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It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
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They called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.
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Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
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The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
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Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
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They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the hill- country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
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Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn`t know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
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The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;