16. Then the people answered and said: “Far be it from us that we should forsake Adonai to worship other gods!
17. For it was Adonai our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us all along the way that we travelled and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.
18. It was Adonai who drove out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites that lived in the land. Therefore we also will worship Adonai, for He is our God.”
19. But Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to worship Adonai, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not pardon your transgression and your sins.
20. If you forsake Adonai and worship foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done good to you.”
21. But the people said to Joshua, “No! For we will worship Adonai.”
22. So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses to yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves Adonai, to worship Him.” “We are witnesses,” they responded.
23. “Now therefore, get rid of the foreign gods that are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Adonai, God of Israel.”
24. And the people said to Joshua, “We will worship none but Adonai our God, and we will obey none but His voice.”
25. So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day, and set for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26. Then Joshua wrote these words in the scroll of the Torah of God. Also he took a great stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the Sanctuary of Adonai.
27. Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone will be a witness to us. For it has heard all the words of Adonai which He has spoken to us. So it will be a witness to you, lest you deny your God.”
28. Joshua then dismissed the people, each to his own inheritance.
29. Now it came to pass after these things that Joshua son of Nun, the servant of Adonai, died at the age of 110 years.
30. So they buried him in the territory of his own portion in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
31. Israel worshipped Adonai all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work of Adonai that He had done for Israel.
32. Joseph’s bones, which Bnei-Yisrael had brought up from Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in the parcel of ground that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for 100 pieces of silver. It became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.