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Joshua 23 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:1 - A long time afterward, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders and heads, their judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:3 - and you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the LORD your God who has fought for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:5 - The LORD your God will push them back before you, and drive them out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - Therefore be very steadfast to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:7 - that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down yourselves to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:8 - but cleave to the LORD your God as you have done to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:9 - For the LORD has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no man has been able to withstand you to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:10 - One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the LORD your God who fights for you, as he promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:11 - Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the LORD your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:12 - For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - know assuredly that the LORD your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, till you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:14 - "And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God promised concerning you; all have come to pass for you, not one of them has failed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15 - But just as all the good things which the LORD your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:16 - if you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them. Then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you."
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

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