18. And he cast out all the nations, the Amorite, the inhabitant of the land that we entered. And so, we will serve the Lord, for he is our God."
19. And Joshua said to the people: "You will not be able to serve the Lord. For he is a holy and powerful God, and he is jealous, and he will not ignore your wickedness and sins.
20. If you leave behind the Lord, and you serve foreign gods, he will turn himself, and he will afflict you, and he will overthrow you, after all the good that he has offered to you."
21. And the people said to Joshua, "By no means will it be as you are saying, but we will serve the Lord."
22. And Joshua said to the people, "You yourselves are witnesses, that you have chosen the Lord so that you may serve him." And they answered, "We are witnesses."
23. "Now therefore," he said, "take away strange gods from among yourselves, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel."
24. And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God, and we will be obedient to his precepts."
25. Therefore, on that day, Joshua struck a covenant, and he set before the people at Shechem the precepts and the judgments.
26. He also wrote all these things in the volume of the law of the Lord. And he took a very great stone, and he stationed it under the oak that was in the Sanctuary of the Lord.
27. And he said to all the people, "Lo, this stone shall be to you as a testimony, which has heard all the words of the Lord that he has spoken to you, lest perhaps, afterward, you might choose to deny it, and to lie to the Lord your God."
28. And he dismissed the people, each one to their own possession.
29. And after these things, Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
30. And they buried him within the borders of his possession at Timnath-Serah, which is situated on mount Ephraim, before the northern side of mount Gaash.
31. And Israel served the Lord during all the days of Joshua, and of the elders who lived for a long time after Joshua, and who had known all the works of the Lord that he had accomplished in Israel.