Jos 24:2-13 | ESV | STEP | And Joshua said to all the people , Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel , Long ago , your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates , Terah , the father of Abraham and of Nahor ; and they served other gods .

2 And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Long ago, ^ayour fathers lived beyond the Euphrates, ^{▼▼Hebrew the River} Terah, the father of Abraham and of Nahor; and ^cthey served other gods. 3 ^dThen I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and ^eled him through all the land of Canaan, and made his offspring many. ^fI gave him Isaac. 4 And to Isaac I gave ^gJacob and Esau. ^hAnd I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, ⁱbut Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. 5 ^jAnd I sent Moses and Aaron, ^kand I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it, and ^lafterward I brought you out.

6 “‘Then ^mI brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ⁿyou came to the sea. ^oAnd the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. 7 ^pAnd when they cried to the Lord, ^qhe put darkness between you and the Egyptians ^rand made the sea come upon them and cover them; ^sand your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. ^tAnd you lived in the wilderness a long time. 8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan. ^uThey fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. 9 ^vThen Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. ^wAnd he sent and invited Balaam the son of Beor to curse you, 10 ^xbut I would not listen to Balaam. ^yIndeed, he blessed you. So I delivered you out of his hand. 11 ^zAnd you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, ^aaand the leaders of Jericho fought against you, and also ^abthe Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. And I gave them into your hand. 12 And I sent ^acthe hornet before you, which drove them out before you, the two kings of the Amorites; it was ^adnot by your sword or by your bow. 13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored ^aeand cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat the fruit of vineyards and olive orchards that you did not plant.’