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Joshua 24
At Shechem Joshua retells God's story from Abraham to the conquest and calls the people to choose whom they will serve: 'As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.' The people make a covenant, Joshua dies at a hundred and ten, and Joseph's bones are buried at Shechem.
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