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Joshua 24:3–13

24:3 but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates4 and brought him into5 the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac, 24:4 and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I assigned Mount Seir,6 while Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. 24:5 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land.7 Then I brought you out. 24:6 When I brought your fathers out of Egypt, you arrived at the sea. The Egyptians chased your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 24:7 Your fathers8 cried out for help to the Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark,9 and then drowned them in the sea.10 You witnessed with your very own eyes11 what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.12 24:8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered13 their land and I destroyed them from before you. 24:9 Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, launched an attack14 against Israel. He summoned15 Balaam son of Beor to call down judgment16 on you. 24:10 I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept17 prophesying good things about18 you, and I rescued you from his power.19 24:11 You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho.20 The leaders21 of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you. 24:12 I sent terror22 ahead of you to drive out before you the two23 Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.24 24:13 I gave you a land in25 which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of26 vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’

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