Joshua 23
23:1And it came to pass after many days, after the lord God rested Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was older being advanced in days,
23:2that Joshua called together all the sons of Israel, and their council of elders, and their rulers, and their magistrates, and their scribes, and he said to them, I grow old and advanced in days.
23:3And you have seen all things as much as the lord our God did to all these nations from in front of you; for the lord our God, he is the one waging war for you.
23:4Behold whatsoever I said, I cast to you nations, the ones being left to you. These lands will be for lots to your tribes. All the nations from the Jordan I utterly destroyed, and from the great sea you shall define the bounds by the descent of the sun.
23:5And the lord your God, he shall utterly destroy them from in front of you, and he shall utterly destroy them from your face; and you shall inherit their land, as the lord your God spoke to you.
23:6Grow strong then exceedingly! to guard and to do all things being written in the scroll of the law of Moses, that you should not turn aside from him to the right or to the left;
23:7that you should not enter unto these nations being left with you, and the names of their gods you shall not name among you, and you shall not swear by an oath nor serve, nor shall you do obeisance to them.
23:8But to the lord your God you shall cleave, just as you did until this day.
23:9And the lord shall utterly destroy them from your face -- great and strong nations; and to you no one withstood before you until this day.
23:10One man of you pursued a thousand. For the lord our God, he wages war for you, just as he spoke to you.
23:11But guard exceedingly your lives! to love the lord your God.
23:12For if you should turn away, and should proceed to leave behind these nations with you, and you should make connections by marriage with them, and mix together with them, and they with you.
23:13With knowledge know that in no way shall the lord your God proceed to utterly destroy these nations from your face. And they will be to you for snares, and for obstacles, and for nails in your heels, and for arrows in your eyes, until whenever you should destroy them from this good land which the lord your God gave to you.
23:14But I run today the way as also all the ones upon the earth. And you shall know in your whole heart, and in your whole soul, that one word failed not from all of the good words of which the lord your God spoke concerning you; all the things being related to us -- he did not dissent from them one word.
23:15And it will be in which manner all the good things come unto you, which the lord your God spoke unto you; so the lord will bring upon you all the bad things, until he should utterly destroy you from this good land, of which the lord your God gave to you,
23:16in your violating the covenant of the lord your God, which he gave charge to you, and going you shall serve other gods, and shall do obeisance to them, and the lord shall be provoked to anger in rage with you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which the lord gave to you.