1. Now it came about after many days, when Adonai had given rest to Israel from all their enemies around them, and Joshua was old and advanced in years,
2. that Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders, their heads, their judges and their officials, and said to them: “I have grown old and am advanced in years.
3. Now you have seen all that Adonai your God has done to all these nations because of you, for it was Adonai your God who was fighting for you.
4. Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance, according to your tribes, these nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.
5. So Adonai your God, He Himself will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from before you, so you will possess their land, just as Adonai your God spoke to you.
6. “Be very resolute to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the Torah of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right or to the left,
7. and not intermingle with these nations who are still remaining among you. Do not mention the names of their gods or swear by them or worship them or bow down to them.
8. But cling to Adonai your God, as you have done to this day.
9. For Adonai has driven out from before you great and mighty nations. As for you, no one remained standing before you to this day.