| New International Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1After a long time had passed and the LORD had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man, | 1Now it came about after many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies on every side, and Joshua was old, advanced in years, |
| 2summoned all Israel--their elders, leaders, judges and officials--and said to them: "I am very old. | 2that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers, and said to them, "I am old, advanced in years. |
| 3You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you. | 3"And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you, for the LORD your God is He who has been fighting for you. |
| 4Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain--the nations I conquered--between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west. | 4"See, I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun. |
| 5The LORD your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you. | 5"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 God promised you. |
| 6"Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left. | 6"Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left, |
| 7Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them. | 7so that you will not associate with these nations, these which remain among you, or mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them. |
| 8But you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now. | 8"But you are to cling to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. |
| 9"The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you. | 9"For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. |
| 10One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as he promised. | 10"One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you. |
| 11So be very careful to love the LORD your God. | 11"So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God. |
| 12"But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them, | 12"For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, |
| 13then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you. | 13know with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to drive these nations 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 off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. |
| 14"Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed. | 14"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 one word of all the good words which the LORD your God spoke concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed. |
| 15But just as all the good things the LORD your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the LORD your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you. | 15"It shall come about that just as all the good words which the LORD your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. |
| 16If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD's anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you." | 16"When you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which He has given you." |
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