28 So Joshua (A)sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

Joshua's Death and Burial

29 (B)After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old. 30 And they buried him in his own inheritance at (C)Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

31 (D)Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua (E)and had known all the work that the Lord did for Israel.

32 (F)As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land (G)that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.[a] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of (H)Phinehas his son, which had been given him in (I)the hill country of Ephraim.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew for a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

28 Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.(A)

Buried in the Promised Land(B)

29 After these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died(C) at the age of a hundred and ten.(D) 30 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah[a](E) in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.(F)

31 Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders(G) who outlived him and who had experienced everything the Lord had done for Israel.

32 And Joseph’s bones,(H) which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,(I) were buried at Shechem in the tract of land(J) that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silver[b] from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

33 And Eleazar son of Aaron(K) died and was buried at Gibeah,(L) which had been allotted to his son Phinehas(M) in the hill country(N) of Ephraim.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:30 Also known as Timnath Heres (see Judges 2:9)
  2. Joshua 24:32 Hebrew hundred kesitahs; a kesitah was a unit of money of unknown weight and value.