1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
2 And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Jehovah God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the river in times of old--Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor--and they served other gods.
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
4 And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red sea.
7 And when they cried to Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and made war against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
10 But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
11 And you went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with your sword, nor with your bow.
13 And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you built not, and you dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which you planted not do you eat.
14 Now therefore reverence Jehovah, and serve Him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve you Jehovah.
15 And if it seem evil to you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;
17 For Jehovah our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18 And Jehovah drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve Jehovah; for he is our God.
19 And Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve Jehovah: for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
20 If you forsake Jehovah, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you hurt and consume you after He has done you good."
21 And the people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Jehovah."
22 And Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Jehovah, to serve Him."  And they said, "We are witnesses."
23 "Now therefore put away," said he, "the strange gods which are among you, and incline your mind to Jehovah God of Israel."
24 And the people said to Joshua, "Jehovah our God will we serve, and His Voice we will obey."
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah.
27 And Joshua said to all the people, this stone shall be a witness to us; for it has heard all the words of Jehovah which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness to you, lest you deny your God.
28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his inheritance.
29 After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old.
30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the North side of the hill of Gaash.
31 And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that lived longer than Joshua, and which had known all the works of Jehovah, that he had done for Israel.
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.