Joshua 24:24-29

24:24 The people said to Joshua, “We will worship ¹  the Lord our God and obey him.” ² 

24:25 That day Joshua drew up an agreement ³  for the people, and he established rules and regulations ⁴  for them in Shechem. 24:26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine. 24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us. ⁵  It will be a witness against you if ⁶  you deny your God.” 24:28 When Joshua dismissed the people, they went to their allotted portions of land. ⁷ 

An Era Ends

24:29 After all this ⁸  Joshua son of Nun, the Lord’s servant, died at the age of one hundred ten.

[24:24]  ¹ tn Or “will serve.”

[24:24]  ² tn Heb “and listen to his voice.”

[24:25]  ³ tn Heb “cut a covenant.”

[24:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “a statute and a judgment.”

[24:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “all the words of the Lord which he spoke with us.”

[24:27]  ⁶ tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”

[24:28]  ⁷ tn Heb “And Joshua sent the people away, each to his inheritance.”

[24:29]  ⁸ tn Heb “after these things.”