Joshua 24:25

So Joshua (l) made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

(l) By joining God and the people together: also he repeated the promises and threatenings out of the Law.

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²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

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