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Joshua 23:2

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all Israel: Joshua 24:1; Deuteronomy 31:28; 1 Chronicles 28:1; Acts 20:17-35

and for their elders: Or, "even for their elders," etc.; for it is probably that Joshua gave the following charge only to the elders, judges, etc., to communicate to the people.

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