H9001–/וַ–v

Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

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

but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

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

You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

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

I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

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

I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn't build, and you dwell therein; of vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant do you eat.

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

The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

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

for Yahweh our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed;

וַֽיִּשְׁמְרֵ֗נוּ (וַֽ) va “and”

and Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.

וַיְגָ֨רֶשׁ (וַ) va “and”

Joshua said to the people, You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he has done you good.

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

The people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve Yahweh.

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve him. They said, We are witnesses.

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

The people said to Joshua, Yahweh our God will we serve, and to his voice will we listen.

וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

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

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

Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

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

Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.

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

So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

וַיְשַׁלַּ֤ח (וַ) va “and”

It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.

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

They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

וַיִּקְבְּר֤וּ (וַ) va “and”

Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.

וַיַּעֲבֹ֤ד (וַ) va “and”

The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

וַיִּֽהְי֥וּ (וַ) va “and”

Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

וַיִּקְבְּר֣וּ (וַ) va “and”

It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?

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

Yahweh said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (וַ) va “and”

Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with you into your lot. So Simeon went with him.

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