Joshua 24:20-29

²⁰He has been good to you in the past*, but if you turn away from him and serve/worship foreign/other gods, he will turn against you and he will cause you to experience disasters. He will punish IDM you severely!”

²¹But the people replied to Joshua, “No, we will not turn away from worshiping/serving Yahweh We will serve/worship Yahweh!”

²²Then Joshua said, “You yourselves are saying that you have decided to serve/worship Yahweh.” They replied, “Yes, we are saying that.”

²³Then Joshua said, “Since you have decided that, you must throw away all the other gods/idols that you have among you. You must also promise that you will wholeheartedly give yourselves to Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis serve/worship.”

²⁴The people replied, “We will serve/worship Yahweh, our God, and obey him.”

²⁵That day, Joshua established an agreement between the people and Yahweh. He wrote for them all the laws that they were required to obey.

²⁶He wrote all those laws on a scroll. He called it ❛The laws of God❜. Then he told some men to set up a large stone there at Shechem, under the large oak tree near the place where they worshiped Yahweh.

²⁷He said to all the people, “Look! It is as though this stone has heard everything that Yahweh said to you and that you promised Yahweh. It will serve as a witness against you if you rebel against your God!”

²⁸Then Joshua sent the people away, and all of them returned to their own areas/homes.

²⁹Some time after that, Nun's son Joshua, the faithful servant of Yahweh, died. He was 110 years old when he died.