Joshua 23 Now after many years, when the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies round about, Joshua being far advanced in years,

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now after many years, when the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies round about, Joshua being far advanced in years, ² Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders, heads, judges, and officials, and he said to them, "I am old and well-advanced in years, ³ and you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for the LORD your God is fighting for you. ⁴ Now I have given to you, as the heritage of your tribes, all these nations which are still in the land, together with those cut off by me, from Jordan as far as the Great Sea on the west. ⁵ The LORD your God will expel them in front of you, driving them out of your sight. You will take possession of this land, just as the LORD your God promised you. ⁶ Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses without turning aside to the right hand or to the left ⁷ That way, you will not mingle with those nations that remain among you, nor mention the name of their gods, nor make oaths by them, nor serve them, nor worship them. ⁸ Instead, you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done today, ⁹ the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, nobody has withstood you to this day. ¹⁰ "One of you can make a thousand men run away, because the LORD your God is fighting for you, as he promised. ¹¹ "So be very diligent to love the LORD your God, ¹² But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships: ¹³ know for certain that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations ahead of you. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap for you, a whip to your backs, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. ¹⁴ Look! I am about to die, and you know in all your hearts and souls that not one thing failed from all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you; everything has been fulfilled; not one thing failed. ¹⁵ However, just as all of the good things have come about that the LORD your God promised, so also the LORD will bring upon you all of the threats until he has destroyed you from possessing this good land that he has given you. ¹⁶ If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded to you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD's anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you."