24. Then the people promised Joshua, “We will serve the Lord, our God, and will listen to his voice.”
25. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.
26. Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the terebinth that was in the sanctuary of the Lord.
27. And Joshua said to all the people, “This stone shall be our witness, for it has heard all the words which the Lord spoke to us. It shall be a witness against you, should you wish to deny your God.”
28. Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own heritage.
29. After these events, Joshua, son of Nun, servant of the Lord, died at the age of a hundred and ten,
30. and they buried him within the borders of his heritage at Timnath-serah in the mountain region of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
31. Israel served the Lord during the entire lifetime of Joshua, and of those elders who outlived Joshua and who knew all the work the Lord had done for Israel.
32. The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried in Shechem in the plot of ground Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of money. This was a heritage of the descendants of Joseph.