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Judges 2:4-12 World English Bible (WEB)

4. When Yahweh’s angel spoke these words to all the children of Israel, the people lifted up their voice, and wept.

5. They called the name of that place Bochim, and they sacrificed there to Yahweh.

6. Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.

7. The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.

8. Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

9. They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

10. After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them, who didn’t know Yahweh, nor the work which he had done for Israel.

11. The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and served the Baals.

12. They abandoned Yahweh, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the peoples who were around them, and bowed themselves down to them; and they provoked Yahweh to anger.

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