Now as they went, He entered into a certain  ¹village, and a certain woman named  ²Martha received Him into her home.

And she had a sister called  ¹Mary, who also sat at the Lord's feet and was listening to His word.

But Martha was  ¹being drawn about with much serving, and she came up to Him and said, Lord, does it not matter to You that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to do her part with me.

But the Lord answered and said to her, Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things;

But there is need of one thing, for Mary has chosen the  ¹good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

And while He was in a certain place praying, when He ceased, a certain one of His disciples said to Him, Lord, teach us to pray, even as John also taught his disciples.

And He said to them, When you  ¹pray, say,  ²Father, Your name be sanctified; Your kingdom come.

Give us each day our daily bread.

And forgive us our sins, for we also forgive everyone indebted to us. And do not bring us into temptation.

And He said to them, Who among you will have a friend and will go to him at midnight and say to him, Friend, lend me three loaves,

Since a friend of mine has come to me from a journey and I have nothing to set before him;

And that one, from inside, will answer and say, Do not trouble me; the door is already shut and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise up and give you anything?

I say to you, Even though he will not rise up and give him anything because he is his friend, surely because of his shameless persistence he will rise and give him what he needs.

 ¹And I say to you, Ask and it shall be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and it shall be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

But what father among you  ¹whose son shall ask for a fish will instead of a fish hand him a snake?

Or if he shall also ask for an egg will hand him a scorpion?

If you then being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father who is from heaven give the  ¹Holy Spirit to those who  ²ask Him!

And many days after Jehovah had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them and Joshua was old and advanced in age,

Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers; and he said to them, I am old and advanced in age;

And you have seen all that Jehovah your God has done to all these nations because of you, for it was Jehovah your God who fought for you.

See, I have allotted to you all these nations that remain as an inheritance for your tribes, as well as all the nations that I cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.

And Jehovah your God, He will thrust them out before you and dispossess them out of your sight; and you will possess their land, as Jehovah your God spoke to you.

Therefore be very strong to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, not turning away from it to the right or to the left,

And not going unto these nations, these that remain with you; neither shall you make mention of the names of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, nor serve them, nor bow down to them;

But you shall cling to Jehovah your God, as you have done to this day.

For Jehovah has dispossessed great and strong nations because of you; but as for you, no one has stood before you to this day.

One man of you chases a thousand, for it is Jehovah your God who fights for you, as He has spoken to you.

Be very careful therefore for yourselves, that you  ¹love Jehovah your God.

But if you do indeed turn back and cling to the remainder of these nations, these that remain with you, and marry into them, and go among them and they among you;

Know for certain that Jehovah your God will no longer dispossess these nations out of your sight, but they will become a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Jehovah your God has given you.

And now today I am going the way of all the earth; and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not a word has failed of all the good things that Jehovah your God spoke concerning you. All has come to pass for you; not one word of it has failed.

But just as all the good things that Jehovah your God spoke concerning you have come upon you, so will Jehovah cause all the evil things to come upon you, until He has destroyed you from this good land that Jehovah your God has given you.

When you transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down to them, the anger of Jehovah will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that He has given you.

Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Jehovah the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt across the  ¹River long ago, Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor; and they served other gods.

And I took your father Abraham from across the River and brought him throughout all the land of Canaan; and I multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.

And I gave Jacob and Esau to Isaac. And I gave Mount Seir to Esau, that he might possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt.

And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt by what I did in the midst of it; and afterward I brought you out.

And I brought your fathers out from Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen unto the Red Sea.

And when they cried out to Jehovah, He put deep darkness between you and the Egyptians; and He brought the sea upon them and covered them. And your eyes saw what I did to Egypt. And you dwelt in the wilderness for many days.

And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you. And I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed them before you.

Then Balak the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, rose up and fought against Israel; and he sent men and called for Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.

But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he altogether blessed you, and I delivered you out of his hand.

And you crossed over the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the lords of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I gave them into your hand.

And I sent the hornet before you, and it drove them out from before you, that is, the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.

And I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.

Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve Him in sincerity and faithfulness; and put away the gods whom your fathers served across the River and in Egypt, and serve Jehovah.

And if it seems wrong in your sight to serve Jehovah, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve, either the gods from across the River, whom your fathers served, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we would forsake Jehovah to serve other gods;

For Jehovah our God is the One who brought us and our fathers out from the land of Egypt, from the slave house, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed;

And Jehovah drove out all the peoples from before us, that is, the Amorites who inhabit the land. We also will serve Jehovah, for He is our God.

Then Joshua said to the people, You are not able to serve Jehovah, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins.

If you forsake Jehovah and serve foreign gods, He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.

And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve Jehovah.

Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Jehovah on your own, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses.

Now therefore put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to Jehovah the God of Israel.

And the people said to Joshua, Jehovah our God we will serve, and to His voice we will listen.

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

And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and he took a great stone and erected it there under the terebinth that was at the sanctuary of Jehovah.

And Joshua said to all the people, This stone here shall be as a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Jehovah, which He has spoken to us; and it shall be as a witness against you, lest you act deceptively against your God.

Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

And after these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died at the age of one hundred and ten years.

And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

And Israel served Jehovah throughout all the days of Joshua and throughout all the days of the elders whose days extended after Joshua's and who knew all the work of Jehovah that He had done for Israel.

And Joseph's bones, which the children of Israel had brought up from Egypt, were buried in Shechem, in the portion of the field that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money; and  ¹it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in  ¹the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.