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.