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Joshua addressed all the people: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: In times past your ancestors, down to Terah,(A) father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River[a] and served other gods. But I brought your father Abraham from the region beyond the River and led him through the entire land of Canaan.(B) I made his descendants numerous, and gave him Isaac.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:2 Beyond the River: east of the Euphrates; cf. Gn 11:28–31.

Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor,(A) lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.(B) But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan(C) and gave him many descendants.(D) I gave him Isaac,(E)

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