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I have entered into days; <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and you have seen all that your God YHWH has done to all these nations because of you, for your God YHWH [is] He who is fighting for you; <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>see, I have caused these nations who are left to fall to you for an inheritance to your tribes, from the Jordan (and all the nations which I cut off), and the Great Sea [at] the [setting] sun. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As for your God YHWH, He thrusts them from your presence, and has dispossessed them from before you, and you have possessed their land, as your God YHWH has spoken to you, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and you have been very strong to keep and to do the whole that is written in the Scroll of the Law of Moses, so as not to turn aside from it right or left, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>so as not to go in among these nations, these who are left with you; and you do not make mention of the name of their gods, nor do you swear, nor do you serve them, nor do you bow yourselves to them; <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but you cleave to your God YHWH, as you have done until this day. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And YHWH is dispossessing great and mighty nations from before you; as for you, none has stood in your presence until this day; <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>one man of you pursues a thousand, for your God YHWH [is] He who is fighting for you, as He has spoken to you; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>and you have been very watchful for yourselves to love your God YHWH. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But—if you turn back at all and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>certainly know that your God YHWH is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a trap, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground which your God YHWH has given to you.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And behold, I am going, today, in the way of all the earth, and you have known—with all your heart, and with all your soul—that there has not fallen one thing of all the good things which your God YHWH has spoken concerning you; the whole have come to you; there has not failed of it one thing. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And it has been, as there has come on you all the good thing which your God YHWH has spoken to you, so YHWH brings on you the whole of the evil thing, until His destroying you from off this good ground which your God YHWH has given to you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>in your transgressing the covenant of your God YHWH which He commanded you, and you have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, then the anger of YHWH has burned against you, and you have perished quickly from off the good land which He has given to you.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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