Josua 24
1 Og Josva samlede alle Israels Stammer til Sikem, og han sammenkaldte Israels Ældste og deres Øverster og deres Dommere og deres Fogeder, og de stillede sig for Guds Ansigt.
Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.
2 Da sagde Josva til alt Folket: Saa siger Herren, Israels Gud: Eders Fædre boede fordum paa hin Side Floden, Thara, Abrahams Fader og Nakors Fader, og de tjente andre Guder.
And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.
3 Og jeg tog eders Fader Abraham fra hin Side Floden og lod ham vandre om i hele Kanaans Land, og jeg formerede hans Sæd og gav ham Isak.
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.
4 Og Isak gav jeg Jakob og Esau; og jeg gav Esau Sejrs Bjerg til Eje, men Jakob og hans Børn droge ned til Ægypten.
And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
5 Da sendte jeg Mose og Aron og slog Ægypterne, ligesom jeg gjorde midt iblandt dem; og derefter førte jeg eder ud.
And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.
6 Og jeg udførte eders Fædre af Ægypten, og I kom til Havet; og Ægypterne forfulgte eders Fædre med Vogne og med Ryttere til det røde Hav.
I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen.
7 Da raabte de til Herren, og han satte et Mørke imellem eder og imellem Ægypterne og lod Havet komme over dem, og det skjulte dem, og eders Øjne have set det, som jeg gjorde i Ægypten; og I bleve i Ørken mange Aar.
And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
8 Og jeg førte eder ind i Amoriternes Land, som boede paa hin Side Jordanen, og de strede mod eder; og jeg gav dem i eders Haand, saa at I indtoge deres Land til Ejendom, og jeg ødelagde dem for eders Ansigt.
And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.
9 Da gjorde Balak, Zippors Søn, Moabs Konge, sig rede og stred mod Israel, og han sendte hen og kaldte Bileam, Beors Søn, til at forbande eder.
Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:
10 Men jeg vilde ikke høre Bileam; og han velsignede eder, og jeg reddede eder af hans Haand.
But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.
11 Og der I gik over Jordanen og kom til Jeriko, da strede Mændene af Jeriko, Amoriterne og Feresiterne og Kananiterne og Hethiterne og Girgasiterne og Heviterne og Jebusiterne imod eder; men jeg gav dem i eders Haand.
Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.
12 Og jeg sendte foran eder Gedehamse, som uddreve dem fra eders Ansigt, saa vel som de to Amoriters Konger, ikke med dit Sværd, ej heller med din Bue.
And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.
13 Og jeg gav eder et Land, paa hvilket du ikke har arbejdet, og Stæder, som I ikke have bygget, og I bo udi dem; af Vingaarde og af Oliegaarde, som I ikke have plantet, æde I.
And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.
14 Saa frygter nu Herren og tjener ham i Oprigtighed og i Sandhed, og borttager de Guder, som eders Fædre tjente paa hin Side Floden og i Ægypten, og tjener Herren!
So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
15 Og om det mishager eder at tjene Herren, saa udvælger eder i Dag, hvem I ville tjene, enten de Guder, som eders Fædre, der vare paa hin Side Floden, tjente, eller Amoriternes Guder, i hvis Land I bo; men jeg og mit Hus, vi ville tjene Herren.
And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.
16 Da svarede Folket og sagde: Det være langt fra os at forlade Herren for at tjene andre Guder.
Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
17 Thi Herren vor Gud, han er den, som førte os og vore Fædre op af Ægyptens Land, af Trælles Hus, og som gjorde disse store Tegn for vore Øjne og bevarede os paa al den Vej, hvorpaa vi gik, og iblandt alle de Folk, vi have gaaet midt igennem.
For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:
18 Og Herren har uddrevet alle Folkene, endog Amoriten, som boede i Landet, fra vort Ansigt; ogsaa vi ville tjene Herren, thi han er vor Gud.
And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.
19 Og Josva sagde til Folket: I kunne ikke tjene Herren, thi han er en hellig Gud, han er en nidkær Gud, han skal ikke bære over med eders Overtrædelser og eders Synder.
And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.
20 Naar I forlade Herren og tjene fremmede Guder, da skal han vende om og gøre eder ondt og fortære eder, efter at han har gjort eder godt.
If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
21 Og Folket sagde til Josva: Ingenlunde! men vi ville tjene Herren.
And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
22 Da sagde Josva til Folket: I ere selv Vidner imod eder, at I have udvalgt eder Herren til at tjene ham; og de sagde: Vi ere Vidner.
And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
23 Saa borttager nu de fremmede Guder, som ere midt iblandt eder, og bøjer eders Hjerter til Herren, Israels Gud.
Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
24 Og Folket sagde til Josva: Vi ville tjene Herren vor Gud, og vi ville høre hans Røst.
And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
25 Saa gjorde Josva paa den samme Dag en Pagt med Folket, og han lagde dem Lov og Ret for i Sikem.
So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
26 Og Josva skrev disse Ord i Guds Lovbog; og han tog en stor Sten og lod den oprejse der under Egen, som var ved Herrens Helligdom.
And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.
27 Og Josva sagde til alt Folket: Se, denne Sten skal være til Vidnesbyrd imod os, thi den har hørt alle Herrens Ord, som han har talet med os; ja, den skal være til Vidnesbyrd imod eder, at I ikke skulle fornægte eders Gud.
And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
28 Saa lod Josva Folket fare, hver til sin Arv.
Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.
29 Og det skete efter disse Handler, da døde Josva, Nuns Søn, Herrens Tjener, hundrede og ti Aar gammel.
Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.
30 Og de begrove ham i hans Arvs Landemærke i Thimnath-Sera, som ligger paa Efraims Bjerg, Norden for Gaas Bjerg.
And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash.
31 Og Israel tjente Herren, saa længe Josva levede, og saa længe de Ældste levede, som levede længe efter Josva, og som kendte al Herrens Gerning, hvilken han havde gjort mod Israel.
And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.
32 Og Josefs Ben, som Israels Børn havde ført op af Ægypten, begrove de i Sikem, paa den Agers Del, som Jakob havde købt af Hemors, Sikems Faders, Børn for hundrede Penninge; og de bleve Josefs Børn til Arv.
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.
33 Og Eleasar, Arons Søn, døde, og de begrove ham i Gibea, som hørte hans Søn Pinehas til og var given ham paa Efraims Bjerg.
Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
