28 Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance.

Joshua’s Death and Burial

29 Now it came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old. 30 And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance, in (A)Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash.

31 (B)Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who [a]survived Joshua, and had known every deed of the Lord which He had done for Israel.

32 Now (C)they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the plot of land (D)which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred [b]pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons. 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of his son (E)Phinehas, which was given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:31 Lit prolonged days after
  2. Joshua 24:32 Heb qesitah

28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old.

30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

31 And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.

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

33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

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28 Then Joshua sent the people away to their own sections of the country.

29 Soon after this he died at the age of 110. 30 He was buried on his own estate at Timnath-serah, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north side of the mountains of Gaash.

31 Israel obeyed the Lord throughout the lifetimes of Joshua and the other old men who had personally witnessed the amazing deeds the Lord had done for Israel.

32 The bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought along when they left Egypt, were buried in Shechem, in the parcel of ground Jacob had bought[a] from the sons of Hamor. (The land was located in the territory assigned to the tribes of Joseph.)

33 Eleazar, the son of Aaron, also died; he was buried in the hill country of Ephraim, at Gibeah, the city that had been given to his son Phinehas.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 24:32 had bought, literally, “had bought for 100 pieces of silver.”

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.