Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Joshua 24:27-33 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

27. Then Joshua said to all the people, “This stone will help you remember what we said today. This stone was here when the Lord was speaking to us today. So this stone will be something that helps you remember what happened today. The stone will be a witness against you. It will stop you from turning against your God.”

28. Then Joshua told the people to go home. So everyone went back to his own land.

29. After that the Lord’S servant Joshua son of Nun died. He was 110 years old.

30. Joshua was buried on his own land at Timnath Serah, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

31. The Israelites served the Lord during the time Joshua was living. After Joshua died, the people continued to serve the Lord while their leaders were alive. These were the leaders who had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.

32. When the Israelites left Egypt, they carried the bones from the body of Joseph with them. They buried the bones of Joseph at Shechem on the land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of the man named Shechem. Jacob had bought that land for 100 pieces of pure silver. This land belonged to Joseph’s children.

33. Aaron’s son, Eleazar, died and was buried at Gibeah in the hill country of Ephraim. Gibeah had been given to Eleazar’s son Phinehas.