23:1 And it came to pass after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;
23:2 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, I am old and well stricken in years:
23:3 and you+ have seen all that Yahweh your+ God has done to all these nations because of you+; for Yahweh your+ God, it is he who has fought for you+.
23:4 Look, I have allotted to you+ these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your+ tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.
23:5 And Yahweh your+ God, he will thrust them out from before you+, and drive them from out of your+ sight; and you+ will possess their land, as Yahweh your+ God spoke to you+.
23:6 Therefore be+ very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, that you+ don't turn aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
23:7 that you+ don't come among these nations, these that remain among you+; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
23:8 but stick to Yahweh your+ God, as you+ have done to this day.
23:9 For Yahweh has driven out from before you+ great and strong nations: but as for you+, no man has stood before you+ to this day.
23:10 One man of you+ will chase a thousand; for Yahweh your+ God, it is he who fights for you+, as he spoke to you+.
23:11 Take good heed therefore to your+ souls, that you+ love Yahweh your+ God.
23:12 Else if you+ do at all go back, and stick to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you+, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you+;
23:13 know for a certainty that Yahweh your+ God will no more drive these nations from out of your+ sight; but they will be a snare and a trap to you+, and a scourge in your+ sides, and thorns in your+ eyes, until you+ perish from off this good land which Yahweh your+ God has given you+.
23:14 And, look, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you+ know in all your+ hearts and in all your+ souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your+ God spoke concerning you+; all have come to pass to you+, not one thing has failed of them.
23:15 And it will come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you+ of which Yahweh your+ God spoke to you+, so will Yahweh bring on you+ all the evil things, until he destroys you+ from off this good land which Yahweh your+ God has given you+.
23:16 When you+ transgress the covenant of Yahweh your+ God, which he commanded you+, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you+, and you+ will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you+.