H9001–/וַ–v

Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:

וַיָּ֨קָם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּלָּ֖חֶם (וַ) va “and”וַיִּשְׁלַ֗ח (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקְרָ֛א (וַ) va “and”

But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.

וַיְבָ֤רֶךְ (וַ) va “and”וָאַצִּ֥ל (וָ) va. “and”

Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.

וַתַּעַבְר֣וּ (וַ) va. “and”וַתָּבֹ֣אוּ (וַ) va. “and”וַיִּלָּחֲמ֣וּ (וַ) va “and”וָאֶתֵּ֥ן (וָ) va. “and”

And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow.

וָאֶשְׁלַ֤ח (וָ) va. “and”וַתְּגָ֤רֶשׁ (וַ) va. “and”

And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

וָאֶתֵּ֨ן (וָ) va. “and”וַתֵּשְׁב֖וּ (וַ) va. “and”

Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;

וַיַּ֤עַן (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּ֔אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

וַֽיִּשְׁמְרֵ֗נוּ (וַֽ) va “and”

And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.

וַיְגָ֨רֶשׁ (וַ) va “and”

And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

וַעֲבַדְתֶּ֖ם (וַ) va. “and”וְשָׁ֨ב (וְ) ve. “and”וְהֵרַ֤ע (וְ) ve. “and”וְכִלָּ֣ה (וְ) ve. “and”

And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ (וַ) va “and”

And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.

וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.

וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֥שֶׂם (וַ) va “and”

And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.

וַיִּכְתֹּ֤ב (וַ) va “and”וַיִּקַּח֙ (וַ) va “and”וַיְקִימֶ֣הָ (וַ) va “and”

And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְהָיְתָ֤ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage.

וַיְשַׁלַּ֤ח (וַ) va “and”

Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old.

וַיְהִ֗י (וַ) va “and”וַיָּ֛מָת (וַ) va “and”

And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash.

וַיִּקְבְּר֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.

וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ד (וַ) va “and”

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the

וַיִּֽהְי֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

וַיִּקְבְּר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?

וַיְהִ֗י (וַ) va “and”וַֽיִּשְׁאֲלוּ֙ (וַֽ) va “and”

And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”וְהָלַכְתִּ֧י (וְ) ve. “and”וַיֵּ֥לֶךְ (וַ) va “and”