约书亚在示剑最后的讲话
约书亚召集以色列的众支派到示剑，他召了以色列的长老、领袖、审判官和官长来；他们都站在神面前。
And 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.
2约书亚对众百姓说：“耶和华－以色列的神如此说：‘古时你们的列祖，就是亚伯拉罕和拿鹤的父亲他拉，住在大河那边事奉别神。And 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.
3我将你们的祖宗亚伯拉罕从大河那边带出来，领他走遍迦南全地，又使他的子孙众多。我把以撒赐给他，And 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.
4我又把雅各和以扫赐给以撒，将西珥山赐给以扫为业。但雅各和他的子孙下到埃及去了。And 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.
5我差遣摩西和亚伦，照我在埃及中间所做的，降灾与埃及，然后把你们领出来。I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
6我领你们的祖宗出埃及，你们就到了红海。埃及人带领战车骑兵，追赶你们的祖宗到红海。And 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.
7你们的祖宗哀求耶和华，他就用黑暗把你们和埃及人隔开了，又使海水冲向埃及人，淹没他们。我在埃及所做的，你们都亲眼见过。你们在旷野住了很多日子。And 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.
8我领你们到约旦河东亚摩利人所住之地。他们与你们争战，我把他们交在你们手中，你们就得了他们的地为业。我也在你们面前灭绝他们。And 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.
9那时，摩押王西拨的儿子巴勒起来攻击以色列人，派人去召比珥的儿子巴兰来诅咒你们。Then 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:
10但我不愿听巴兰，所以他反而为你们连连祝福。这样，我救了你们脱离他的手。But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
11你们过了约旦河，来到耶利哥。耶利哥人、亚摩利人、比利洗人、迦南人、赫人、革迦撒人、希未人、耶布斯人都与你们争战，我却把他们交在你们手里。And ye 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.
12我派遣瘟疫☛“瘟疫”或译“黄蜂”。在你们前面，将亚摩利人的两个王从你们面前赶出，并不是用你的刀，也不是用你的弓。And 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.
13我赐给你们的地，不是你们开垦的；我赐给你们的城镇，不是你们建造的。你们却住在其中，又得吃那不是你们栽植的葡萄园和橄榄园的果子。’And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
14“现在你们要敬畏耶和华，诚心诚意事奉他，除掉你们列祖在大河那边和在埃及事奉的神明，事奉耶和华。Now 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.
15若你们认为事奉耶和华不好，今日就可以选择所要事奉的：是你们列祖在大河那边所事奉的神明，或是你们所住这地亚摩利人的神明呢？至于我和我家，我们必定事奉耶和华。”And 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.
16百姓回答说：“我们绝不离弃耶和华去事奉别神。And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
17因为耶和华－我们的神曾领我们和我们的祖宗从埃及地为奴之家出来，在我们眼前行了那些大神迹，并在我们所行的一切路上，和所经过的各民族中保护了我们。For 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:
18耶和华又把各民族和住此地的亚摩利人都从我们面前赶出去。所以，我们也必事奉耶和华，因为他是我们的神。”And 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.
19约书亚对百姓说：“你们不能事奉耶和华，因为他是神圣的神，是忌邪☛“忌邪”：原文是“妒忌”，意思是“不容许有对立的神明”。的神，必不赦免你们的过犯罪恶。And 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.
20你们若离弃耶和华去事奉外邦的神明，耶和华在降福之后，必转而降祸给你们，把你们灭绝。”If 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.
21百姓对约书亚说：“不，我们要事奉耶和华。”And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
22约书亚对百姓说：“你们选择耶和华，要事奉他，你们自己作证吧！”他们说：“我们愿意作证。”And 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.
23“现在，你们要除掉你们中间外邦的神明，专心归向耶和华－以色列的神。”Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
24百姓对约书亚说：“我们必事奉耶和华－我们的神，听从他的话。”And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
25那日，约书亚就与百姓立约，在示剑为他们制定律例典章。So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26约书亚把这些话写在神的律法书上，又拿一块大石头立在橡树下耶和华圣所的旁边。And 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.
27约书亚对众百姓说：“看哪，这石头可以向我们作见证，因为它听见了耶和华所吩咐我们的一切话；这石头将向你们作见证，免得你们背叛你们的神。”And 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.
28于是约书亚解散百姓，各自回到自己的地业去了。约书亚和以利亚撒去世
So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
29这些事以后，耶和华的仆人，嫩的儿子约书亚死了，那时他一百一十岁。And 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.
30以色列人把他葬在他自己地业的境内，以法莲山区的亭拿．西拉，在迦实山的北边。And 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.
31约书亚在世的日子和他死了以后，那些知道耶和华为以色列所做一切事的长老还在世的时候，以色列人事奉耶和华。And 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.
32以色列人把从埃及所带来约瑟的骸骨安葬在示剑，就是雅各从前用一百可锡塔☛“可锡塔”：古希伯来钱币单位；参“度量衡表”。向示剑的父亲哈抹的众子所买的那块地；这块地就成了约瑟子孙的产业。And 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.
33亚伦的儿子以利亚撒也死了，他们把他葬在他儿子非尼哈所得以法莲山区的小山上☛“小山上”或译“基比亚”。。And 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.