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And it came to pass after many days, after the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies round about, that Joshua was old and advanced in days.
And Joshua called together all the sons of Israel and their council of elders and their rulers and their scribes and their judges, and said to them, “I have grown old and am advanced in days.
See, I have cast to you these nations that are left to you, by lots, for your tribes, from the Jordan — all the nations which I destroyed; and from the Great Sea it shall mark the boundary toward the setting of the sun.
And the Lord your God himself will destroy them from before you until they perish; and he will send wild beasts against them, until he destroys them and their kings from before you. And you shall take possession of their land, as the Lord your God told you.
Be very strong, therefore, to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you do not turn aside to the right or to the left;
so that you do not go in among these nations that are left; and the names of their gods shall not be named among you, nor shall you bow down to them, nor serve them.
know that the Lord will no longer destroy these nations from before you, but they shall become snares to you and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels and darts in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.
But I am going the way of all who are on the earth. And you shall know in your heart and in your soul that not one word has failed of all the words which the Lord your God spoke concerning all that pertains to you; none of them has fallen through.
And it shall be that just as all the good words which the Lord spoke to you have come upon you, so the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil words, until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord gave you —