1此後很長時間，耶和華使以色列人四境太平，沒有戰事。約書亞年事已高，2他召來了以色列的長老、族長、審判官和官長，對他們說：「我已經老了，3你們都親眼看見你們的上帝耶和華怎樣為了你們而對付列邦，親自為你們爭戰。4從約旦河到地中海的這片土地，無論是已征服的還是沒有征服的，我已經用抽籤的方式分給你們各支派作產業。5你們的上帝耶和華必把列邦從你們面前趕出去，使他們離開你們。這樣，你們就可以承受他們的土地，正如你們的上帝耶和華的應許。6所以，你們應當剛強，謹遵摩西律法書上所記載的一切，不可有半點偏離。7不可與你們中間剩下的異族混雜，不可提他們的神明或憑它們起誓，不可供奉、祭拜他們的神明。8你們要一如既往地倚靠你們的上帝耶和華，9因為祂為你們趕走了強大的外族人，至今無人敵得過你們。10你們一個人能打敗他們一千人，因為你們的上帝耶和華照著祂的應許為你們爭戰。11所以你們要特別謹慎，愛你們的上帝耶和華。12如果你們悖逆，跟你們當中剩下的異族人聯合，通婚往來，13毫無疑問，你們的上帝耶和華必不再為你們趕走他們。相反，他們還要成為設在你們當中的圈套和陷阱，你們的肉中刺、眼中釘，直到你們在你們的上帝耶和華所賜給你們的這塊美好的土地上滅亡。14「我快要走完人世的路程了。你們深知你們的上帝耶和華賜給你們的一切美好應許沒有一句落空，都已經應驗了。15正如你們的上帝耶和華已成就祂應許給你們的一切福氣，如果你們違背祂，祂必照樣降各樣災禍給你們，直到把你們從祂所賜的這美好土地上毀滅。16你們如果違背你們的上帝耶和華吩咐你們遵守的約，去供奉、祭拜別的神明，祂必向你們發怒，使你們在祂所賜的這美好土地上迅速滅亡。」
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Joshua’s Charge to Israel’s Leaders
1A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,2Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now old and well advanced in years.3And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.4Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.5The Lord your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, just as the Lord your God promised you.6Therefore, be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,7that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,8but you shall cling to the Lord your God just as you have done to this day.9For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations. And as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day.10One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.11Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.12For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,13know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.14“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one word has failed of all the good things* that the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.15But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you,16if 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 be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land that he has given to you.”
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