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that Joshuacalled for allIsrael, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers, and said to them, "I amold, advanced in years.
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"See, I have apportioned to you thesenations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nationswhich I have cutoff, from the Jordan even to the GreatSea toward the setting of the sun
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"The LORD your God, He will thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you will possess their land, just as the LORD your Godpromised you.
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"Be veryfirm, then, to keep and doall that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turnaside from it to the righthand or to the left,
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so that you will not associate with thesenations, these which remainamong you, or mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear by them, or serve them, or bowdown to them.
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"For if you evergoback and cling to the rest of thesenations, these which remainamong you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
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know with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to drivethesenations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from offthisgoodlandwhich the LORD your God has given you.
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"Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not oneword of all the goodwordswhich the LORD your Godspokeconcerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed
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"It shall come about that just as all the goodwordswhich the LORD your Godspoke to you have come upon you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the threats*, until He has destroyed you from offthisgoodlandwhich the LORD your God has given you.
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"When you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serveothergods and bowdown to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will perishquickly from off the goodlandwhich He has given you."