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.