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And Joshua called together all the children of Israel, and their elders, and their chiefs, and their judges, and their officers; and said to them, I am old and advanced in years.
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And ye have seen all that the Lord our God has done to all these nations before us; is the Lord your God who has fought for you.
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See, that I have given to you these nations that are left to you by lots to your tribes, all the nations beginning at Jordan; and I have destroyed; and the boundaries shall be at the great sea westward.
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And the Lord our God, he shall destroy them before us, until they utterly perish; and he shall send against them the wild beasts, until he shall have utterly destroyed them and their kings from before you; and ye shall inherit their land, as the Lord our God said to you.
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Do ye therefore strive diligently to observe and do all things written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not to the right hand or to the left;
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that ye go not in among these nations that are left; and the names of their gods shall not be named among you, neither shall ye serve them, neither shall ye bow down to them.
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But ye shall cleave to the Lord our God, as ye have done until this day.
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And the Lord shall destroy them before you, great and strong nations; and no one has stood before us until this day.
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One of you has chased a thousand, for the Lord our God, he fought for you, as he said to us.
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And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God.
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For if ye shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you,