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

¹And Joshua gathereth all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and calleth for the elders of Israel, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and they station themselves before God.

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.

²And Joshua saith unto all the people, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Beyond the River have your fathers dwelt of old — Terah father of Abraham and father of Nachor — and they serve other gods;

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.

³and I take your father Abraham from beyond the River, and cause him to go through all the land of Canaan, and multiply his seed, and give to him Isaac.

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.

⁴And I give to Isaac, Jacob and Esau; and I give to Esau mount Seir, to possess it; and Jacob and his sons have gone down to Egypt.

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

⁵And I send Moses and Aaron, and plague Egypt, as I have done in its midst, and afterwards I have brought you out.

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.

⁶And I bring out your fathers from Egypt, and ye go into the sea, and the Egyptians pursue after your fathers, with chariot and with horsemen, to the Red Sea;

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.

⁷and they cry unto Jehovah, and He setteth thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and bringeth on them the sea, and covereth them, and your eyes see that which I have done in Egypt; and ye dwell in a wilderness many days.

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.

⁸`And I bring you in unto the land of the Amorite who is dwelling beyond the Jordan, and they fight with you, and I give them into your hand, and ye possess their land, and I destroy them out of your presence.

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.

⁹`And Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, riseth and fighteth against Israel, and sendeth and calleth for Balaam son of Beor, to revile you,

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

¹⁰and I have not been willing to hearken to Balaam, and he doth greatly bless you, and I deliver you out of his 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.

¹¹`And ye pass over the Jordan, and come in unto Jericho, and fight against you do the possessors of Jericho — the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite — and I give them into your hand.

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

¹²And I send before you the hornet, and it casteth them out from your presence — two kings of the Amorite — not by thy sword, nor by thy bow.

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.

¹³`And I give to you a land for which thou hast not laboured, and cities which ye have not built, and ye dwell in them; of vineyards and olive-yards which ye have not planted ye are eating.

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!

¹⁴`And now, fear ye Jehovah, and serve Him, in perfection and in truth, and turn aside the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt, and serve ye Jehovah;

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.

¹⁵and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah — choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; — whether the gods whom your fathers served, which [are] beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house — we serve Jehovah.`

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

¹⁶And the people answer and say, `Far be it from us to forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

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.

¹⁷for Jehovah our God [is] He who is bringing us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of a house of servants, and who hath done before our eyes these great signs, and doth keep us in all the way in which we have gone, and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed;

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.

¹⁸and Jehovah casteth out the whole of the peoples, even the Amorite inhabiting the land, from our presence; we also do serve Jehovah, for He [is] our God.`

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

¹⁹And Joshua saith unto the people, `Ye are not able to serve Jehovah, for a God most holy He [is]; a zealous God He [is]; He doth not bear with your transgression and with your sins.

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

²⁰When ye forsake Jehovah, and have served gods of a stranger, then He hath turned back and done evil to you, and consumed you, after that He hath done good to you.`

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

²¹And the people saith unto Joshua, `No, but Jehovah we do serve.`

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

²²And Joshua saith unto the people, `Witnesses ye are against yourselves, that ye have chosen for you Jehovah to serve Him (and they say, `Witnesses!`)

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

²³and, now, turn aside the gods of the stranger which [are] in your midst, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, God of Israel.`

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

²⁴And the people say unto Joshua, `Jehovah our God we serve, and to His voice we hearken.`

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

²⁵And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem.

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.

²⁶And Joshua writeth these words in the Book of the Law of God, and taketh a great stone, and raiseth it up there under the oak which [is] in the sanctuary of Jehovah.

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.

²⁷And Joshua saith unto all the people, `Lo, this stone is against us for a witness, for it hath heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He hath spoken with us, and it hath been against you for a witness, lest ye lie against your God.`

²⁸Potem razpusti Jozue ljudstvo, vsakega v dediščino njegovo.

²⁸And Joshua sendeth the people away, each to his inheritance.

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

²⁹And it cometh to pass, after these things, that Joshua son of Nun, servant of Jehovah, dieth, a son of a hundred and ten years,

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

³⁰and they bury him in the border of his inheritance, in Timnath-Serah, which [is] in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the hill of Gaash.

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.

³¹And Israel serveth Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who prolonged days after Joshua, and who knew all the work of Jehovah which He did to Israel.

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.

³²And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in the portion of the field which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor father of Shechem, with a hundred kesitah; and they are to the sons of Joseph for an inheritance.

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

³³And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they bury him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.