The Book of Joshua (WEB)
23: 1It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies
round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years; 23:2that Joshua called for all Israel, for
their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, I am
old and well stricken in years: 23:3and you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these
nations because of you; for Yahweh your God, he it is that has fought for you. 23:4Behold, I have
allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with
all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.
23:5Yahweh your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your
sight; and you shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you. 23:6Therefore be you
very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not
turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left; 23:7that you not come among these nations, these
that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by
them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them; 23:8but cleave to Yahweh your God, as
you have done to this day. 23:9For Yahweh has driven out from before you great nations and strong:
but as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. 23:10One man of you shall chase a thousand;
for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to you. 23:11Take good heed therefore
to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God. 23:12Else if you do at all go back, and cleave to the
remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and
go in to them, and they to you; 23:13know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no more drive
these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in
your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your
God has given you. 23:14Behold, 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
Yahweh your God spoke concerning you; all are happen to you, not one thing has failed of it. 23:15It
shall happen, that as all the good things are come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to
you, so will Yahweh bring on you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this
good land which Yahweh your God has given you. 23:16When you disobey the covenant of Yahweh
your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to
them; then will the anger of Yahweh be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off
the good land which he has given to you.
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