Joshua 23

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Joshua’s Charge to Leaders

¹A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,

¹And it came to pass a long time after when YHWH had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua was old; he had entered into days.

²he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,

²And Joshua called for all Israel, for its elders, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its officers, and he said to them, “I have become old; I have entered into days.

³“and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.

³And You have seen all that YHWH your God has done to all these nations before your faces, for YHWH your God is He who has fought for you.

⁴See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.^a

⁴See, I have divided by lot to you these remaining nations, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, and with all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.

⁵The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.

⁵And YHWH your God, He will expel them from before you and drive them out of your sight; and you shall possess their land as YHWH your God has spoken to you.

⁶Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.

⁶And be very courageous to keep and to do everything written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

⁷So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.

⁷and lest you go among these nations, these remaining among you, and the name of their gods you shall not mention nor cause one to swear by them, and you shall not serve them and not bow down to them.

⁸Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

⁸For but to YHWH your God you shall hold fast, as you have done to this day.

⁹The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.

⁹And YHWH has driven out from before you great and mighty nations; and as for you, a man has not been able to stand against you to this day.

¹⁰One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.

¹⁰One man of you shall chase a thousand, for YHWH your God is He who is fighting for you as He promised to you.

¹¹Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

¹¹And exceedingly take heed to yourselves that you love YHWH your God.

¹²For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,

¹²For if you at all turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations, these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you,

¹³know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

¹³then know for sure that YHWH your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you, and they shall be to you snares and traps and scourges on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that YHWH your God has given to you.

¹⁴Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.

¹⁴And behold, I am going this day the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things that YHWH your God has spoken concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word has failed.

¹⁵But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.

¹⁵And it will come to pass that as have come upon you all the good things that YHWH your God has spoken to you, so YHWH will bring upon you all the word of evil, until He has destroyed you from this good land that YHWH your God has given to you.

¹⁶If 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 burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”

¹⁶In your transgressing the covenant of YHWH your God that He commanded you, and have gone and served other gods and bowed down to them, the anger of YHWH will burn against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land that He has given to you.”