1. And an Angel of the Lord went up from Gilgal to the Place of Weeping, and he said: "I led you away from Egypt, and I led you into the land, about which I swore to your fathers. And I promised that I would not nullify my covenant with you, even forever:
2. but only if you would not form a pact with the inhabitants of this land. Instead, you should overturn their altars. Yet you were not willing to listen to my voice. Why have you done this?
3. For this reason, I am not willing to destroy them before your face, so that you may have enemies, and so that their gods may be your ruin."
4. And when the Angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, they lifted up their voice, and they wept.
5. And the name of that place was called, the Place of Weeping, or the Place of Tears. And they immolated victims to the Lord in that place.
6. Then Joshua dismissed the people, and the sons of Israel went away, each one to his own possession, so that they might obtain it.
7. And they served the Lord, during all his days, and during all the days of the elders, who lived for a long time after him, and who knew all the works of the Lord, which he had done for Israel.
8. Then Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.