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1 A long time afterward, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years, Many years later, after the LORD had given the Israelites rest from all their enemies round about them, and when Joshua was old and advanced in years, After a long time had passed and the LORD had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man,
2 Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years. he summoned all Israel, including their elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and said to them: “I am old and advanced in years. summoned all Israel—their elders, leaders, judges and officials—and said to them: “I am very old.
3 And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you. You have seen all that the LORD, your God, has done for you against all these nations; for it has been the LORD, your God, who fought for you. You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
4 Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west. See, I have apportioned among your tribes as their heritage the nations that survive, as well as those I destroyed, between the Jordan and the Great Sea in the west. Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
5 The LORD your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the LORD your God promised you. The LORD, your God, will drive them out and dispossess them at your approach, so that you will take possession of their land as the LORD, your God, promised you. The LORD your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
6 Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left, Therefore be strong and be careful to observe all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, never turning from it right or left, “Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left.
7 that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them, or mingling with these nations that survive among you. You must not invoke their gods by name, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them, Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them.
8 but you shall cling to the LORD your God just as you have done to this day. but you must hold fast to the LORD, your God, as you have done up to this day. But you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now.
9 For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. At your approach the LORD has dispossessed great and strong nations; not one has withstood you up to this day. “The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you.
10 One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, just as he promised you. One of you puts to flight a thousand, because it is the LORD, your God, himself who fights for you, as he promised you. One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as he promised.
11 Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God. As for you, take great care to love the LORD, your God. So be very careful to love the LORD your God.
12 For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, For if you ever turn away from him and join with the remnant of these nations that survive among you, by intermarrying and intermingling with them, “But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,
13 know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you. know for certain that the LORD, your God, will no longer dispossess these nations at your approach. Instead they will be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns for your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD, your God, has given you. then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.
14 “And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed. “Today, as you see, I am going the way of all the earth. So now acknowledge with your whole heart and soul that not one of all the promises the LORD, your God, made concerning you has failed. Every one has come true for you; not one has failed. “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
15 But just as all the good things that the LORD your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the LORD your God has given you, But just as every promise the LORD, your God, made to you has come true for you, so will he bring upon you every threat, even so far as to exterminate you from this good land which the LORD, your God, has given you. But just as all the good things the LORD your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the LORD your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you.
16 if you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.” If you transgress the covenant of the LORD, your God, which he enjoined on you, to go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the anger of the LORD will flare up against you and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.” If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.”
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