And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, (A)your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates,[a] Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and (B)they served other gods. (C)Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River[b] and (D)led him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. (E)I gave him Isaac. And to Isaac I gave (F)Jacob and Esau. (G)And I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, (H)but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:2 Hebrew the River
  2. Joshua 24:3 That is, the Euphrates; also verses 14, 15

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