¹And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

¹In Jozue zbere vse Izraelove rodove v Sihemu in skliče starejšine Izraelove in poglavarje, sodnike in oblastnike njegove. In postavijo se pred Bogom.

²And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

²In Jozue reče vsemu ljudstvu: Tako pravi GOSPOD, Bog Izraelov: Vaši očetje so nekdaj prebivali onostran velereke, zlasti Terah, Abrahamov in Nahorjev oče, in služili drugim bogovom.

³And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

³In vzel sem očeta vašega Abrahama z one strani velereke in sem ga vodil po vsej Kanaanski deželi ter pomnožil njegovo seme, ko sem mu dal Izaka.

⁴And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

⁴In Izaku sem dal Jakoba in Ezava, Ezavu pa sem dal Seirsko gorovje, da ga posede; a Jakob in njegovi sinovi so šli doli v Egipt.

⁵I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

⁵In poslal sem Mojzesa in Arona, in bičal sem Egipt pri vsem, kar sem storil sredi njega, in potem sem vas izpeljal.

⁶And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

⁶Ko sem pa odpeljal vaše očete iz Egipta in ste prišli k morju, so se gnali Egipčani za vašimi očeti z vozovi in konjiki do Rdečega morja.

⁷And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

⁷In ko so zavpili h GOSPODU, je postavil temo med vas in Egipčane in pripeljal morje čeznje, da jih je zagrnilo. In oči vaše so videle, kar sem storil v Egiptu. Potem ste bivali dosti časa v puščavi.

⁸And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

⁸In privedel sem vas v deželo Amorejcev, ki so prebivali za Jordanom; in bojevali so se z vami, in dal sem vam jih v roke, in posedli ste njih deželo, in nje sem zatrl pred vami.

⁹Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:

⁹Tedaj je vstal Balak, sin Ziporjev, kralj moabski, in se je bojeval z Izraelom; in je poslal ter poklical Balaama, sina Beorjevega, da vas prekolne.

¹⁰But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

¹⁰A nisem hotel poslušati Balaama, zato vas je tembolj blagoslovil, in otel sem vas iz njegove roke.

¹¹And you 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; and I delivered them into your hand.

¹¹In ko ste šli čez Jordan in prišli do Jeriha, so se bojevali meščani iz Jeriha z vami, in Amorejci, Ferizejci, Kanaanci, Hetejci, Girgasejci, Hevejci in Jebusejci, in dal sem vam jih v roke.

¹²And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.

¹²In poslal sem sršene pred vami, ki so jih pregnali izpred vas, kakor dva kralja Amorejcev – ne z mečem tvojim, ne z lokom tvojim.

¹³And I have given you a land for which ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

¹³In dal sem vam deželo, ki je niste obdelovali, in mesta, ki jih niste zidali, in prebivate v njih in uživate od vinogradov in oljk, ki jih niste zasadili.

¹⁴Now 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 ye the LORD.

¹⁴Zatorej se bojte zdaj GOSPODA ter mu služite s popolno vdanostjo in v resnici, in odpravite bogove, ki so jim služili vaši očetje za velereko in v Egiptu, in služite GOSPODU!

¹⁵And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye 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 ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

¹⁵A če se vam zdi slabo služiti GOSPODU, izberite si danes, komu boste služili: ali bogovom, ki so jim služili vaši očetje onostran velereke, ali bogovom Amorejcev, ki prebivate v njih deželi; jaz pa in moja hiša hočemo služiti GOSPODU.

¹⁶And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

¹⁶Nato odgovori ljudstvo in reče: Bog ne daj, da bi zapustili GOSPODA in služili drugim bogovom!

¹⁷For 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 through whom we passed:

¹⁷Zakaj GOSPOD, Bog naš, je tisti, ki je nas in očete naše odpeljal iz Egiptovske dežele, iz hiše sužnosti, in je delal pred našimi očmi taka velika znamenja ter nas hranil po vsem potu, ki smo po njem šli, in med vsemi narodi, mimo katerih smo potovali.

¹⁸And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.

¹⁸In GOSPOD je pred nami izpahnil vse narode, zlasti Amorejce, ki so prebivali v deželi. Tudi mi hočemo služiti GOSPODU, zakaj on je naš Bog.

¹⁹And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

¹⁹Jozue reče ljudstvu: Vi ne morete služiti GOSPODU, zakaj on je presveti Bog, goreči Bog; on ne bo prenašal prestopkov vaših in grehov vaših.

²⁰If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

²⁰Ako zapustite GOSPODA in boste služili tujim bogovom, se obrne on ter vam napravi hudo in vas pokonča, potem ko vam je dobro storil.

²¹And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.

²¹Ljudstvo pa reče Jozuetu: Nikar, temuč GOSPODU hočemo služiti.

²²And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

²²In Jozue reče ljudstvu: Priče ste zoper sebe, da ste si izvolili GOSPODA, da mu boste služili. In reko: Da, priče smo.

²³Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.

²³Odpravite torej zdaj, veli, tuje bogove, ki so med vami, in nagnite srce svoje h GOSPODU, Bogu Izraelovemu!

²⁴And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

²⁴In ljudstvo odgovori Jozuetu: GOSPODU, Bogu svojemu, hočemo služiti in glas njegov poslušati.

²⁵So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

²⁵Tako je storil Jozue tisti dan zavezo z ljudstvom in mu je dal postavo in sodbo v Sihemu.

²⁶And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

²⁶In Jozue je napisal te besede v knjigo Božjega zakona, in vzame velik kamen in ga ondi postavi pod hrastom, ki je bil pri GOSPODOVEM svetišču.

²⁷And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

²⁷In Jozue reče vsemu ljudstvu: Glej, ta kamen bodi priča zoper nas; kajti slišal je vse GOSPODOVE besede, ki nam jih je govoril, zato bodi priča zoper vas, da ne zatajite Boga svojega.

²⁸So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

²⁸Potem razpusti Jozue ljudstvo, vsakega v dediščino njegovo.

²⁹And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

²⁹In zgodi se po teh rečeh, da umre Jozue, sin Nunov, hlapec GOSPODOV, ko je bil star sto in deset let.

³⁰And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

³⁰In pokopali so ga v kraju dediščine njegove, v Timnat-serahu, ki je v Efraimskem gorovju, severno ob gori Gaasu.

³¹And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.

³¹In Izrael je služil GOSPODU, dokler je živel Jozue in dokler so, še dosti časa za Jozuetom, živeli starejšine, ki so vedeli za vse GOSPODOVO delo, katero je storil za Izraela.

³²And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

³²In Jožefove kosti, ki so jih prinesli sinovi Izraelovi iz Egipta, so pokopali v Sihemu na kosu zemljišča, ki ga je bil kupil Jakob od sinov Hemorja, očeta Sihemovega, za sto kesit, in tako so prišle v dediščino Jožefovim sinovom.Tudi Eleazar, sin Aronov, je umrl, in pokopali so ga v Gibei, ki je bila njegovega sinu Pinehasa, dana mu v Efraimskem gorovju.

³³And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

³³Tudi Eleazar, sin Aronov, je umrl, in pokopali so ga v Gibei, ki je bila njegovega sinu Pinehasa, dana mu v Efraimskem gorovju.