Joshua 23

¹ And it comes to pass, many days after that Yahweh has given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua is old, entering into days, ² and Joshua calls for all Israel, for its elders, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and said unto them, "I have become old; I have entered into days; ³ and you - you have seen all that Yahweh your Elohim has done to all these nations because of you, for Yahweh your Elohim [is] He who is fighting for you; ⁴ see, I have caused to fall to you these nations who are left for an inheritance to your tribes, from the Jordan, (and all the nations which I cut off), and the great sea, the going in of the sun. ⁵ As to Yahweh your Elohim, He does thrust them from your presence, and has dispossessed them from before you, and you have possessed their land, as Yahweh your Elohim has spoken to you, ⁶ and you have been very strong to keep and to do the whole that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so as not to turn aside from it right or left, ⁷ so as not to go in among these nations, these who are left with you; and of the name of their elohims you do not make mention, nor do you swear, nor do you serve them, nor do you bow yourselves to them; ⁸ but to Yahweh your Elohim you do cleave, as you have done till this day. ⁹ And Yahweh is dispossessing from before you nations great and mighty; as for you, none has stood in your presence till this day; ¹⁰ one man of you does pursue a thousand, for Yahweh your Elohim [is] He who is fighting for you, as He has spoken to you; ¹¹ and you have been very watchful for yourselves to love Yahweh your Elohim. ¹² But - if you at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you, ¹³ know certainly that Yahweh your Elohim is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till you perish from off this good ground which Yahweh your Elohim has given to you. ¹⁴ And lo, I am going, to-day, in the way of all the earth, and you have known - with all your heart, and with all your soul - that there has not fallen one thing of all the good things which Yahweh your Elohim has spoken concerning you; the whole have come to you; there has not failed of it one thing. ¹⁵ And it has been, as there has come upon you all the good thing which Yahweh your Elohim has spoken unto you, so does Yahweh bring upon you the whole of the evil thing, till His destroying you from off this good ground which Yahweh your Elohim has given to you; ¹⁶ in your transgressing the covenant of Yahweh your Elohim which He commanded you, and you have gone and served other elohims, and bowed yourselves to them, then has the anger of Yahweh burned against you, and you have perished hastily from off the good land which He has given to you."