1 A long time after that, the Lord had given Israel rest from all those around them who hated them. Joshua had grown old, and had lived many years.

After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

2 J oshua called all Israel, their leaders, their heads, and the men chosen among them who judge between what is right or wrong. Then he said to them, “I am old and have lived many years.

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 advanced in years.

3 A nd you have seen all the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you. The Lord your God is the One Who has fought for you.

You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

4 S ee, I have given to you as land for your families those nations that are left, with all the nations I have destroyed. They lie from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.

Behold, 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.

5 T he Lord your God will send them out from in front of you. He will send them away from you. Then their land will be yours, just as the Lord your God promised you.

Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.

6 S o do not be moved by others. Keep and obey all that is written in the book of the Law of Moses. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left.

“Therefore be 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;

7 D o not mix with these nations that stay among you. Do not say the names of their gods or make anyone swear by them. Do not work for them or worship them.

that 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;

8 B ut hold on to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.

but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.

9 F or the Lord has driven away large and strong nations from in front of you. No man has been able to stand in front of you to this day.

“For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

10 O ne of your men makes a thousand run away. For the Lord your God is the One Who fights for you, just as He promised you.

One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.

11 B e very careful to love the Lord your God.

Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

12 F or if you ever turn away and join the people of these nations left among you and marry some of their people and go among them,

“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast 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;

13 k now for sure that the Lord your God will stop driving these nations away from you. And they will be a net and a trap to you. They will be a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you are destroyed from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, 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.

14 “ See, today I am going the way of all the earth. Know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one of all the good promises the Lord your God made to you has been broken. All have come true for you. Not one of them has been broken.

“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. 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 have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

15 E very good promise the Lord your God made to you has come true. But in the same way, He will keep His promises to punish you. He will punish you until He has destroyed you from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,

16 I f you do not keep the agreement the Lord your God made with you, and serve other gods and worship them, then the anger of the Lord will burn against you and you will be destroyed from the good land He has given you.”

when 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 Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”