30 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah[a](A) in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.(B)

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

32 And Joseph’s bones,(D) which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,(E) were buried at Shechem in the tract of land(F) 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.

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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.

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.

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