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20 If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, He will turn against [you], harm you, and completely destroy you, after He has been good to you."
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If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you.”
21 "No!" the people answered Joshua. "We will worship the Lord."
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But the people said to Joshua, “No! We will serve the LORD.”
22 Joshua then told the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you yourselves have chosen to worship the Lord." "We are witnesses," they said.
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Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.
23 "Then get rid of the foreign gods that are among you and offer your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel."
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“Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”
24 So the people said to Joshua, "We will worship the Lord our God and obey Him."
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And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey him.”
25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people at Shechem and established a statute and ordinance for them.
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On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.
26 Joshua recorded these things in the book of the law of God; he also took a large stone and set it up there under the oak next to the sanctuary of the Lord.
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And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the LORD.
27 And Joshua said to all the people, "You see this stone-it will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the Lord said to us, and it will be a witness against you, so that you will not deny your God."
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“See!” he said to all the people. “This stone will be a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untrue to your God.”
28 Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
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Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.
29 After these things, the Lord's servant, Joshua son of Nun, died at the age of 110.
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After these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of a hundred and ten.
30 They buried him in his allotted territory at Timnath-serah, in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
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And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.
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