| New Living Translation | International Standard Version |
| 1The years passed, and the LORD had given the people of Israel rest from all their enemies. Joshua, who was now very old, | 1Many years later, after the LORD had given peace between Israel and all its surrounding enemies, and after Joshua had become very old, |
| 2called together all the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel. He said to them, “I am now a very old man. | 2Joshua called together all Israel, including their leaders, officials, judges, and tribal officers. He told them, "I am old now after having lived many years. |
| 3You have seen everything the LORD your God has done for you during my lifetime. The LORD your God has fought for you against your enemies. | 3You have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all of these nations on your behalf, because it has been the LORD your God who has been fighting on your behalf. |
| 4I have allotted to you as your homeland all the land of the nations yet unconquered, as well as the land of those we have already conquered—from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea in the west. | 4Now look, I have allocated these nations that remain as an inheritance for your tribes, including all of the nations that I have eliminated, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea to the west. |
| 5This land will be yours, for the LORD your God will himself drive out all the people living there now. You will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. | 5The 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“So be very careful to follow everything Moses wrote in the Book of Instruction. Do not deviate from it, turning either to the right or to the left. | 6Stand very strong, then, so you can obey and carry out everything written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning neither to the right nor to the left of it. |
| 7Make sure you do not associate with the other people still remaining in the land. Do not even mention the names of their gods, much less swear by them or serve them or worship them. | 7That 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. |
| 8Rather, cling tightly to the LORD your God as you have done until now. | 8Instead, you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done today, |
| 9“For the LORD has driven out great and powerful nations for you, and no one has yet been able to defeat you. | 9because the LORD has expelled great and strong nations ahead of you. Now as for you, not a single man has been able to oppose you right to this day. |
| 10Each one of you will put to flight a thousand of the enemy, for the LORD your God fights for you, just as he has promised. | 10A single man makes a thousand flee, because the LORD your God is the one who is fighting for you, just as he promised you. |
| 11So be very careful to love the LORD your God. | 11"So be very diligent to love the LORD your God, |
| 12“But if you turn away from him and cling to the customs of the survivors of these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry with them, | 12because if you ever turn back and cling to those who remain of these nations by intermarrying with them and associating one with another, |
| 13then know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive them out of your land. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap to you, a whip for your backs and thorny brambles in your eyes, and you will vanish from this good land the LORD your God has given you. | 13know 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“Soon I will die, going the way of everything on earth. Deep in your hearts you know that every promise of the LORD your God has come true. Not a single one has failed! | 14"Look here: today I'm going down the path that everyone on earth takes, and you know with all your hearts and souls that not a single word of all of the good things that the LORD your God spoke about you has failed to happen. Everything has been fulfilled about you—not one of them has failed. |
| 15But as surely as the LORD your God has given you the good things he promised, he will also bring disaster on you if you disobey him. He will completely destroy you from this good land he has given you. | 15However, 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. |
| 16If you break the covenant of the LORD your God by worshiping and serving other gods, his anger will burn against you, and you will quickly vanish from the good land he has given you.” | 16When you break the covenant of the LORD your God that he commanded you to obey by going to serve other gods and worship them, then the anger of the LORD will blaze against you, and you will perish quickly from this good land that he gave you." |
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