1 GLT And it happened from many days afterward, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies from all around, that Joshua was old, he came into the days. BSB BSB: A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,
2 GLT And Joshua called for all Israel, for its elders and for its heads and for its judges and for its officers. And he said to them,“I am old, I have come into the days. BSB BSB: he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,
3 GLT But as for you, you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations from your face. For Yahweh your God, he is the one who fights for you. BSB BSB: “and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you.
4 GLT See, I have caused to fall for you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan and all the nations that I cut off and the great sea, from the going of the sun. BSB BSB: See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.
5 GLT And Yahweh your God, he will push them from your face and will dispossess them from before your face. And you will possess their land, just as Yahweh your God spoke to you. BSB BSB: The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.
6 GLT And you shall be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, to not turn aside from it right or left, BSB BSB: Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.
7 GLT to not go among these nations, these remaining ones with you. And by the name of their gods you shall not mention and not swear. And you shall not serve them and not bow down to them. BSB BSB: So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.
8 GLT But rather to Yahweh your God you shall cling, just as you have done until this day. BSB BSB: Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
9 GLT And Yahweh has dispossessed great and numerous nations from your face. And as for you, a man has not stood against your face until this day. BSB BSB: The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
10 GLT One man from you pursues a thousand. For Yahweh is your God. He is the one who fights for you, just as he has spoken to you. BSB BSB: One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
11 GLT And you shall keep yourselves exceedingly for your selves, to love Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
12 GLT For if you ever turn back and cling to the remainder of these nations, these remaining ones with you, and you intermarry with them and you go among them and they among you, BSB BSB: For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
13 GLT you shall know assuredly that Yahweh your God will not continue to dispossess these nations from before your face. And they will be to you as a trap and as a snare and as a whip on your sides and as thorns in your eyes, until you perish from on this good ground that Yahweh your God has given to you. BSB BSB: know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.
14 GLT And behold, today I am about to go the way of all the earth. And you know with all your heart and with all your soul that not one word has fallen from all the good words that Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. The whole has come to you, not one word from it has fallen. BSB BSB: Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.
15 GLT And it will happen that just as all the good word that Yahweh your God spoke to you has come upon you, so Yahweh will bring upon you all the evil word until he has destroyed you from this good ground that Yahweh your God has given to you. BSB BSB: But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
16 GLT When you pass over the covenant of Yahweh your God that he commanded you and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the nose of Yahweh will burn against you. And you will quickly perish from the good land that he has given to you.” BSB BSB: If 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 quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”
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