21. But the people answered Joshua, “No, we will serve the lord!”
22. “You are a witness to your own decision,” Joshua said. “You have chosen to serve the lord.”“Yes,” they replied, “we are witnesses to what we have said.”
23. “All right then,” Joshua said, “destroy the idols among you, and turn your hearts to the lord, the God of Israel.”
24. The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the lord our God. We will obey him alone.”
25. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day at Shechem, committing them to follow the decrees and regulations of the lord.
26. Joshua recorded these things in the Book of God’s Instructions. As a reminder of their agreement, he took a huge stone and rolled it beneath the terebinth tree beside the Tabernacle of the lord.
27. Joshua said to all the people, “This stone has heard everything the lord said to us. It will be a witness to testify against you if you go back on your word to God.”
28. Then Joshua sent all the people away to their own homelands.
29. After this, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the lord, died at the age of 110.
30. They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
31. The people of Israel served the lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him—those who had personally experienced all that the lord had done for Israel.
32. The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought along with them when they left Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the parcel of ground Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor for 100 pieces of silver. This land was located in the territory allotted to the descendants of Joseph.
33. Eleazar son of Aaron also died. He was buried in the hill country of Ephraim, in the town of Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas.