19. And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.
20. If you forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.
21. And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the Lord.
22. Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses.
23. Then put away, said he, the foreign gods that are among you and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
24. The people said to Joshua, The Lord our God we will serve; His voice we will obey.
25. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.
26. And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God; and he took a great stone and set it up there under an oak that was in [the court of] the sanctuary of the Lord.
27. And Joshua said to all the people, See, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the Lord spoke to us; so it shall be a witness against you, lest [afterward] you lie (pretend) and deny your God.
28. So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
29. After this, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.
30. They buried him at the edge of his inheritance in Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
31. Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the works the Lord had done for Israel.
32. And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem in the portion of ground Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for 100 pieces of money; and it became the inheritance of the Josephites.
33. And Eleazar son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gibeah [on the hill] of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.