JOSHUA 24:25 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.”
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. And he took a great stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD — Joshua's action records the covenant in writing ('wrote these words in the book of the law of God,' yiketbem besepher tôrat-hāʾelōhîm). The 'great stone' (ʾeben gedôlâ) serves as a material witness to the covenant (similar to the altar in 22:34). The stone's placement 'under the oak...by the sanctuary of the LORD' locates it in a sacred space, anchoring the covenant in geographical and theological significance.
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