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

¹A Jozua shromaždil všetky pokolenia Izraelove do Síchema a povolal starších Izraelových a jeho hlavy i jeho sudcov i jeho správcov, a postavili sa pred tvárou Božou.

²Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

²A Jozua riekol všetkému ľudu: Takto hovorí Hospodin, Bôh Izraelov: Tam za riekou bývali vaši otcovia od pradávna, Térach, otec Abrahámov a otec Náchorov, a slúžili iným bohom.

³I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

³A vzal som vášho otca, Abraháma, zpoza rieky a povodil som ho po celej zemi Kanaána a rozmnožil som jeho semeno dajúc mu Izáka.

⁴I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

⁴Potom som dal Izákovi Jakoba a Ezava a Ezavovi so dal vrch Seir, aby ho zaujal do dedičstva, a Jakob a jeho synovia odišli do Egypta.

⁵“‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out.

⁵A poslal som Mojžiša a Árona a zbil som Egypt ranami, jako som učinil v jeho strede, a potom som vás vyviedol von ztade.

⁶I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds .

⁶A keď som viedol vašich otcov z Egypta, prišli ste k moru. A Egypťania honili vašich otcov s vozmi a jazdcami až do Rudého mora.

⁷When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.

⁷A keď kričali na Hospodina postavil mrákavu medzi vás a medzi Egypťanov, a uviedol na neho more, a pokrylo ho. A vaše oči videly, čo som činil v Egypte, a bývali ste na púšti mnoho dní.

⁸“‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

⁸Potom som vás doviedol do zeme Amoreja, ktorý býval za Jordánom, a bojovali s vami, ale som ich vydal do vašej ruky, a zaujali ste ich zem do dedičstva, a vyhladil som ich zpred vašej tvári.

⁹Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

⁹A povstal Balák, syn Cipporov, moábsky kráľ, a bojoval proti Izraelovi a pošlúc poslov povolal Baláma, syna Beorovho, aby vám zlorečil.

¹⁰but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

¹⁰Ale nechcel som počuť Baláma, lež naopak: musel vám znova a znova žehnať, a tak som vás vytrhol z jeho ruky.

¹¹“‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

¹¹A keď ste prešli cez Jordán, prešli ste k Jerichu, a bojovali proti vám páni Jericha, Amorej, Ferezej, Kananej, Hetej, Girgazej, Hevej a Jebuzej, a dal som ich do vašej ruky.

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

¹²A poslal som pred vami sršňov a zahnaly ich zpred vašej tvári, dvoch kráľov Amoreja; nevyhnal si ich svojím mečom ani svojím štítom.

¹³I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’

¹³A dal som vám zem, na ktorej ste nepracovali, a mestá, ktoré ste nestaväli, a bývate v nich. Z viníc a z olivníc, ktorých ste nesadili, jete.

¹⁴“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

¹⁴Preto teraz sa bojte Hospodina a slúžte mu v úprimnosti a v pravde a odstráňte bohov, ktorým slúžili vaši otcovia tam za riekou a v Egypte, a slúžte Hospodinovi.

¹⁵If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”

¹⁵No, ak je to zlé vo vašich očiach slúžiť Hospodinovi, vyvoľte si dnes, komu budete slúžiť, či bohom, ktorým slúžili vaši otcovia, ktorí boli za riekou, a či bohom Amorejov, v ktorých zemi bývate, ale ja a môj dom budeme slúžiť Hospodinovi.

¹⁶The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

¹⁶A ľud odpovedal a riekol: Nech je to preč od nás, aby sme mali opustiť Hospodina a slúžiť iným bohom.

¹⁷for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.

¹⁷Lebo Hospodin, náš Bôh je to, ktorý nás vyviedol i našich otcov z Egyptskej zeme, z domu sluhov, sem hore, a ktorý činil tie veľké znamenia pred našimi očami a ostríhal nás na celej tej ceste, ktorou sme išli, a medzi všetkými národami, ktorých stredom sme prišli.

¹⁸Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”

¹⁸A Hospodin zahnal všetky tie národy, aj Amoreja, ktorý býval v zemi, zpred našej tvári. Aj my budeme slúžiť Hospodinovi, lebo on je náš Bôh.

¹⁹Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

¹⁹Ale Jozua riekol ľudu: Nebudete môcť slúžiť Hospodinovi, lebo on je presvätý Bôh, je silný Bôh žiarlivý, neodpustí vašich previnení a vašich hriechov.

²⁰If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”

²⁰Keď opustíte Hospodina a budete slúžiť cudzím bohom, obráti sa a učiní vám zle a zničí vás, kým vám prv činil dobre.

²¹The people said to Joshua, “No; but we will serve Yahweh.”

²¹A ľud povedal Jozuovi: Nie tak, ale Hospodinovi budeme slúžiť.

²²Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

²²Vtedy zase riekol Jozua ľudu: Svedkami budete sami proti sebe, že ste si sami vyvolili Hospodina, aby ste jemu slúžili. A riekli: Svedkami sme.

²³“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”

²³A tak teraz odstráňte cudzích bohov, ktorí sú ešte vo vašom strede, a nakloňte svoje srdcia k Hospodinovi, Bohu Izraelovmu.

²⁴The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”

²⁴A ľud, všetci povedali Jozuovi: Hospodinovi, svojmu Bohu, budeme slúžiť a budeme počúvať na jeho hlas.

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

²⁵Tak učinil Jozua toho dňa smluvu s ľudom a uložil mu ustanovenie a súd v Sícheme.

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

²⁶A Jozua vpísal tie slová do knihy zákona Božieho. A vezmúc veľký kameň postavil ho tam pod dubom, ktorý bol v svätyni Hospodinovej.

²⁷Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

²⁷A Jozua riekol všetkému ľudu: Hľa, tento kameň bude svedoctvom proti vám, lebo on počul všetky reči Hospodinove, ktoré hovoril s nami, a bude svedoctvom proti vám, aby ste nezapreli svojho Boha.

²⁸So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

²⁸Potom rozpustil Jozua ľud, aby išiel každý do svojho dedičstva.

²⁹It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

²⁹A stalo sa po týchto veciach, že zomrel Jozua, syn Núnov, služobník Hospodinov, majúc sto desať rokov.

³⁰They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

³⁰A pochovali ho na území jeho dedičstva v Timnat-sérachu, ktoré je na vrchu Efraimovom od severa vrchu Gáš.

³¹Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.

³¹A Izrael slúžil Hospodinovi po všetky dni Jozuove i po všetky sni starších, ktorí prežili Jozuu a ktorí znali všetky skutky Hospodinove, ktoré učinil Izraelovi.

³²They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

³²A kosti Jozefove, ktoré doniesli synovia Izraelovi hore z Egypta, pochovali v Sícheme, na diele poľa, ktoré bol kúpil Jakob od synov Chamora, otca Síchemovho, za sto kesít, a boly synom Jozefovým do dedičstva.

³³Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

³³A zomrel aj Eleazár, syn Áronov, a pochovali ho na vŕšku Pinchasa, jeho syna, ktorý mu bol daný na vrchu Efraimovom.