1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 Joshua said to all the people, "Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods. 3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac. 4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
5 "‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. 6 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea. 7 When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
8 "‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you. 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you, 10 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.
11 "‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. 12 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow. 13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’
14 "Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh. 15 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."
16 The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods; 17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed. 18 Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God."
19 Joshua said to the people, "You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. 20 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."
21 The people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve Yahweh." 22 Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him."
They said, "We are witnesses."
23 "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."
24 The people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. 27 Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God." 28 So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
29 After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. 30 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel. 32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. 33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
1 约书亚在示剑召集以色列各支派， 又把以色列的长老、首领、审判官和官长都召了来， 他们就站在 神面前。
2 约书亚对众民说： "耶和华以色列的 神这样说： ‘古时你们的列祖， 就是亚伯拉罕和拿鹤的父亲他拉， 住在大河那边； 他们事奉别的神。
3 我把你们的祖先亚伯拉罕， 从大河那边带来， 领他走遍迦南地， 使他的后裔增多， 把以撒赐给他；
4 又把雅各和以扫赐给以撒， 把西珥山赐给以扫作产业； 雅各和他的子孙却下到埃及去。
5 我差派了摩西和亚伦， 借着我在埃及所行的神迹， 用灾疫击打埃及， 然后把你们领出来。
6 我领你们的列祖离开埃及， 他们去到海边； 埃及人带着战车和马兵， 追赶你们的列祖直到红海。
7 你们的列祖呼求耶和华， 他就以黑暗隔开你们和埃及人， 又使海水复流淹没了他们； 我在埃及所行的事， 你们都亲眼见过； 你们在旷野也住了许多日子。
8 我领你们到了住在约旦河东的亚摩利人的地， 他们和你们争战， 我把他们交在你们手里， 你们就得了他们的地作产业； 我也在你们面前把他们消灭。
9 那时摩押王西拨的儿子巴勒起来攻击以色列人； 他派人把比珥的儿子巴兰召了来， 咒诅你们。
10 我不肯听巴兰的话， 结果他反而一而再祝福你们； 这样， 我就救了你们脱离他的手。
11 你们过了约旦河， 来到耶利哥； 耶利哥的居民与你们作战， 还有亚摩利人、比利洗人、迦南人、赫人、革迦撒人、希未人、耶布斯人， 也跟你们作战； 我把他们都交在你们手里。
12 我派了黄蜂飞在你们前面， 把亚摩利人的两个王从你们面前赶走， 并不是用你的刀， 也不是用你的弓。
13 我赐给你们的土地， 不是你们劳苦开垦的； 我赐给你们的城市， 不是你们建造的， 你们却住在城中； 你们享用的葡萄园和橄榄园， 也不是你们栽种的。’
14 "现在你们要敬畏耶和华， 真诚地按着真理事奉他， 把你们列祖在大河那边和在埃及事奉的神除掉， 去事奉耶和华。
15 如果你们认为事奉耶和华不好， 那么今日你们就可以选择你们所要事奉的： 是你们列祖在大河那边事奉的神呢， 还是你们现在所住亚摩利人之地的神呢？至于我和父家， 我们必事奉耶和华。"
16 众民回答： "我们绝对不会离弃耶和华， 去事奉别的神；
17 因为耶和华我们的 神把我们和我们的列祖， 从埃及地为奴的家领出来， 并且在我们眼前行了那些伟大的神迹； 又在我们所行的一切路上， 和我们经过的一切民族中间， 他都保护了我们；
18 耶和华又把所有的民族和住在这地的亚摩利人， 都从我们面前赶走； 所以我们必事奉耶和华， 因为他是我们的 神。"
19 约书亚对众民说： "你们不能事奉耶和华， 因为他是圣洁的 神； 他是嫉妒的 神， 他必不赦免你们的过犯和罪恶。
20 如果你们离弃耶和华， 去事奉外族人的神， 那么在耶和华赐福给你们之后， 他必转而降祸与你们， 把你们消灭。"
21 众民对约书亚说： "不， 我们必定事奉耶和华。"
22 约书亚对众民说： "你们选择了耶和华， 要事奉他， 你们为自己作证吧。"他们说： "我们愿意作证。"
23 约书亚说： "现在你们要除掉在你们中间外族人的神， 一心归向耶和华以色列的 神。"
24 众民对约书亚说： "我们必事奉耶和华我们的 神， 必听从他的话。"
25 那一天， 约书亚就与众民立约， 在示剑为他们订立律例和典章。
26 约书亚把这些话都写在 神的律法书上； 又拿一块大石头， 立在耶和华圣所旁边的橡树下。
27 约书亚对全体人民说： "看哪， 这块石头可以向我们作证， 因为它听见了耶和华对我们所说的一切话； 所以这块石头要向你们作证， 免得你们否认你们的 神。"
28 于是约书亚打发众民各自回到自己的地业去了。
29 这些事以后， 耶和华的仆人、嫩的儿子约书亚死了， 那时他是一百一十岁。
30 以色列人把他埋葬在他自己地业的境内， 就是在以法莲山地上的亭拿．西拉， 在迦实山的北边。
31 约书亚在世的日子， 和约书亚死后， 那些知道耶和华为以色列人所行的一切事的长老还在世的日子， 以色列人都事奉耶和华。
32 以色列人从埃及带出来的约瑟骸骨， 葬在示剑的一块田里； 这块田是雅各从前用一百块银子向示剑的父亲哈抹的子孙那里买来的； 这块田就成了约瑟子孙的产业。
33 亚伦的儿子以利亚撒也死了； 以色列人就把他埋葬在基比亚， 就是他儿子非尼哈在以法莲山地所得的产业。