Both you and your families must feast there before the Lord your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.

You shall rejoice in the presence of the Lord your God, along with your sons, daughters, male and female servants, and the Levites in your villages (since they have no allotment or inheritance with you).

When the Lord your God eliminates the nations from the place where you are headed and you dispossess them, you will settle down in their land.

You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.

When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.

how they met you along the way and cut off all your stragglers in the rear of the march when you were exhausted and tired; they were unafraid of God.

You will celebrate all the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.

The Lord will plague you with deadly diseases until he has completely removed you from the land you are about to possess.

You are standing today, all of you, before the Lord your God – the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

Then if you and your descendants turn to the Lord your God and obey him with your whole mind and being just as I am commanding you today,

You will return and obey the Lord, keeping all his commandments I am giving you today.

You will die on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and joined his deceased ancestors,

Be strong and brave! You must lead these people in the conquest of this land that I solemnly promised their ancestors I would hand over to them.

Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, ‘When you reach the bank of the Jordan River, wade into the water.’”

But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for the Lord. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster.

He told them, “Look, set an ambush behind the city. Don’t go very far from the city; all of you be ready!

The men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you live near us. So how can we make a treaty with you?”

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you trick us by saying, ‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?

Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”