23. Joshua said, “But you still have some idols, like those the other nations worship. Get rid of your idols! You must decide once and for all that you really want to obey the Lord God of Israel.”
24. The people said, “The Lord is our God, and we will worship and obey only him.”
25. Joshua helped Israel make an agreement with the Lord that day at Shechem. Joshua made laws for Israel
26. and wrote them down in The Book of the Law of God. Then he set up a large stone under the oak tree at the place of worship in Shechem
27. and told the people, “Look at this stone. It has heard everything that the Lord has said to us. Our God can call this stone as a witness if we ever reject him.”
28. Joshua sent everyone back to their homes.
29. Not long afterwards, the Lord's servant Joshua died at the age of one hundred and ten.
30. The Israelites buried him in his own land at Timnath-Serah, north of Mount Gaash in the hill country of Ephraim.
31. As long as Joshua lived, Israel worshipped and obeyed the Lord. There were other leaders old enough to remember everything that the Lord had done for Israel. And for as long as these men lived, Israel continued to worship and obey the Lord.
32. When the people of Israel left Egypt, they brought the bones of Joseph along with them. They took the bones to the town of Shechem and buried them in the field that Jacob had bought for one hundred pieces of silver from Hamor, the founder of Shechem. The town and the field both became part of the land belonging to the descendants of Joseph.
33. When Eleazar the priest died, he was buried in the hill country of Ephraim on a hill that belonged to his son Phinehas.