- And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
- Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel.
And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.