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Joshua 23: Joshua's Farewell

After many days, when Yahweh had given Israel rest and Joshua is old, he calls all Israel's leaders together. He reminds them that Yahweh their God has fought for them. He urges them to be very courageous to keep all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, not turning to the right or the left, and to hold fast to Yahweh. One man of them will chase a thousand, for Yahweh fights for them, so they must take good heed to love Yahweh their God. Joshua says he is going the way of all the earth, and that not one thing has failed of all the good things Yahweh spoke. He warns that if they turn to other gods, they will perish from the good land.

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World English Bible · 16 verses

  1. 1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  2. 2 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  3. 3 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  4. 4 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  5. 5 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  6. 6 “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 away from it to the right hand or to the left;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  7. 7 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;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  8. 8 but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  9. 9 “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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  10. 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  11. 11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  12. 12 “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;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  13. 13 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  14. 14 “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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  15. 15 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,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
  16. 16 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.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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

Joshua 23:11 (WEB)

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