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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 .

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 fought against Israel. He 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 listen to 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.’

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.

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.

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!

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.”

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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.

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 you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

²⁵So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for 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.

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.

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.

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.”

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 sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

²⁸Potem razpusti Jozue ljudstvo, vsakega v dediščino njegovo.

²⁹It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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