15 And [a]if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served (that were beyond the flood) or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: [b]but I and mine house will serve the Lord.

16 Then the people answered and said, God forbid, that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods.

17 For the Lord our God, he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and he did those great miracles in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the people through whom we came.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:15 Hebrew, if it be evil in your sight.
  2. Joshua 24:15 This teacheth us that if all the world would go from God, yet every one of us particularly is bound to cleave unto him.

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