Joshua 23

And it happened from many days afterward, when God had given rest to Israel from all of their enemies from all around, that Joshua had aged, he had come into days.

And Joshua called to all of Israel, to its elders and to its heads and to its judges and to its officers, and he said to them, “I have aged, I have come into days.

But you yourselves have seen all that God your God has done to all of these nations from your faces. For God your God, he {is} the one having fought for you. \*

See, I have caused to fall for you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, and all of the nations that I cut off, and the Great Sea from the going of the sun.

And God your God, he will push them from your face, and he will dispossess them from to your face. And you will possess their land, just as God your God has spoken to you. \*

And you shall be very strong to keep and to do everything written in the book of the instruction of Moses, not to turn aside from it right or left,

not to come among these nations, these ones remaining with you. And by the name of their gods you shall not invoke and you shall not swear, and you shall not serve them and you shall not bow down to them.

If not to God your God you shall cling, just as you have done to this day. \*

And God has dispossessed great and powerful nations from your faces. And you, a man has not stood against your faces to this day.

One man from you pursues a thousand, for God your God, he is the one fighting for you, just as he has spoken to you.

And you shall keep yourselves exceedingly to yourselves, to love God your God. \*

For if turning, you turn and cling to the remnant of these nations, these ones remaining with you, and you intermarry with them and you go among them and they among you,

knowing, may you know that God your God will not continue to dispossess these nations from to your face. And they will be to you for a snare and for a trap and for a whip on your sides and for thorns in your eyes, until you perish from upon this good ground that God your God has given to you. \*

And behold, today I myself am going in the way of all of the earth. And you know with all of your heart and with all of your soul that not one word has fallen from all of the good words that God your God spoke concerning you. The whole has come to you. Not one word has fallen from it.

And it will happen, just as all of the good word that God your God spoke to you has come upon you, thus God will bring upon you all of the evil word until he has destroyed you from upon this good ground that God your God has given to you. \*

In your transgressing the covenant of God your God that he commanded you and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the nose of God will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from upon the good land that he has given to you.” \*