Joshua 23

¹Now it came to pass, a long time after the Lord

²And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them: “I am old, advanced in age.

³You have seen all that the Lord

⁴See, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea westward.

⁵And the Lord

⁶Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

⁷and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You shall not make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them; you shall not serve them nor bow down to them,

⁸but you shall hold fast to the Lord

⁹For the Lord

¹⁰One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord

¹¹Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord

¹²Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you,

¹³know for certain that the Lord

¹⁴“Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord

¹⁵Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the Lord

¹⁶When you have transgressed the covenant of the Lord