And you (your souls) went over JORDAN, and came unto JERICHO, and the MEN OF JERICHO FOUGHT AGAINST YOU, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites (all of them wanted to control you); and I DELIVERED THEM INTO YOUR HAND.
And I SENT the HORNET before you, WHICH DROVE THEM OUT from before you, EVEN the TWO KINGS OF THE AMORITES; BUT NOT WITH YOUR SWORD, NOR WITH YOUR BOW ( the power of your sword and the power of your bow weren't enough to succeed).
And I HAVE GIVEN you a LAND for which YOU DID NOT LABOUR, and CITIES which YOU BUILT NOT, and YOU DWELL IN THEM; of the VINEYARDS and OLIVEYARDS which YOU PLANTED NOT do YOU EAT.
Now THEREFORE FEAR the LORD, and SERVE Him IN SINCERITY and IN TRUTH, and PUT AWAY the GODS which your FATHERS SERVED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD, and IN EGYPT; and SERVE YOU the LORD.
And IF IT SEEM EVIL to you to SERVE the LORD, CHOOSE you THIS DAY WHOM YOU WILL SERVE; whether the GODS which YOUR FATHERS SERVED that were ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD, or the GODS of the AMORITES, IN WHOSE LAND YOU DWELL.
But as FOR ME and MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD.
And the souls answered and said: "GOD forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods; for the Lord our GOD, he IT IS that BROUGHT US UP and OUR FATHERS OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, from the HOUSE OF BONDAGE, and WHICH DID THOSE GREAT SIGNS IN OUR SIGHT, and PRESERVED US IN ALL THE WAY WHEREIN WE WENT, and among all the people
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