18. The Lord drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the Lord, for He is our God."
19. Then Joshua said to the people, "You will not be able to serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins.
20. If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you."
21. The people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the Lord."
22. Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the Lord, to serve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses."
23. "Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel."
24. The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God and we will obey His voice."
25. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26. And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
27. Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be for a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord which He spoke to us; thus it shall be for a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God."
28. Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance.
29. It came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
30. And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash.