22. So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses to yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves Adonai, to worship Him.” “We are witnesses,” they responded.
23. “Now therefore, get rid of the foreign gods that are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Adonai, God of Israel.”
24. And the people said to Joshua, “We will worship none but Adonai our God, and we will obey none but His voice.”
25. So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day, and set for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26. Then Joshua wrote these words in the scroll of the Torah of God. Also he took a great stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the Sanctuary of Adonai.
27. Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone will be a witness to us. For it has heard all the words of Adonai which He has spoken to us. So it will be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.”
28. Joshua then dismissed the people, each to his own inheritance.