21And the people said to Joshua, It shall not be so, as thou speakest, but we shall serve the Lord.
22And Joshua said to the people, Ye be witnesses, that ye have chosen the Lord to you, that ye serve him. And they answered, We be witnesses.
23Therefore, he said, now do ye away alien gods from the midst of you, and bow ye your hearts to the Lord God of Israel.
24And the people said to Joshua, We shall serve the Lord our God, and we shall be obedient to his behests.
25Therefore Joshua smote a bond of peace in that day, and setted forth to the people commandments and dooms in Shechem.
26And he wrote all these words in the book of God’s law. And he took a great stone, and putted it under an oak, that was in the saintuary of the Lord.
27And he said to all the people, Lo! this stone shall be to you into witnessing, that ye have heard all the words of the Lord, which he spake to you, lest peradventure ye would deny afterward, and lie to your Lord God.