The Lord was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land.

The leaders then added, "Let them live." So they became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had decided.

The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the part of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money. So it became the inheritance of the tribe of Joseph.