Then aJoshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God....
Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, "aBeware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy....
Then the heads of households of athe Levites approached Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of households of the tribes of the sons of Israel....
"aListen to me, you who bpursue righteousness, Who seek the Lord: Look to the crock from which you were hewn And to the quarry from which you were dug....