Joshua 24:22-32

22 Joshua said to the people, "You have testified that you have chosen to serve the LORD." They answered, "Yes, we have!"
23 "Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Turn yourselves entirely over to the LORD God of Israel."
24 The people replied to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and obey him."
25 That day Joshua made an agreement for the people and set up laws and rules for them at Shechem.
26 Joshua wrote these things in the Book of God's Teachings. Then he took a large stone and set it up under the oak tree at the LORD's holy place.
27 Joshua told all the people, "This stone will stand as a witness for us. It has heard all the words which the LORD spoke to us. It will stand as a witness for you. You cannot deceive your God."
28 Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own property.
29 After these events, the LORD's servant Joshua, son of Nun, died. He was 110 years old.
30 He was buried on his own land at Timnath Serah in the mountains of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
31 Israel served the LORD as long as Joshua and the older leaders, who outlived him and who knew everything the LORD had done for Israel, were alive.
32 Joseph's bones, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, were buried at Shechem. They were placed in the plot of ground Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, father of Shechem, for 100 pieces of silver. The plot was inherited by Joseph's descendants.
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