Joshua
Chapter 23
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Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
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1Many days later, after God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. had given Israel rest from all their enemies all around, Joshua was old, advanced in days.
2Joshua called all Israel, its elders, its heads, its judges, and its officers, and he said to them, I myself have grown old. I have come into days.
3You have seen all that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has done to all these nations because of you, for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is the one who fights for you.
4See, I have allotted to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, and all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea, where the sun goes in.
5God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, he will push them out from before you and drive them out from before you, and you shall take their land, as God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God spoke to you.
6Be very strong to keep and to do all that is written in the scroll of the instruction of Moses, so that you do not turn aside from it to the right or to the left,
7so that you do not go in among these nations, these who remain with you. You shall not mention the name of their gods, you shall not make anyone swear by them, you shall not serve them, and you shall not bow to them.
8But you shall cling to God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, as you have done to this day.
9God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. has driven out great and strong nations from before you, and you, not a man has stood before you to this day.
10One man of you shall chase a thousand, for God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God is the one who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
11Be very careful for yourselves, to love God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God.
12For if you do turn back, and you cling to the rest of these nations, these who remain with you, and you intermarry with them, and you go in among them and they among you,
13know for certain that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you. They shall be a snare and a trap to you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good ground that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has given you.
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Shotet is a whip. Tzinnim are thorns.
14Look, I am going today the way of all the earth. You shall know with all your heart and with all your soul that not one word has failed of all the good words that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God spoke about you. They have all come to you. Not one word of them has failed.
15As every good word that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God spoke to you has come upon you, so God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will bring upon you every bad word, until he destroys you from this good ground that God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God has given you.
16When you cross the A solemn agreement that binds God and people. of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. your God, which he commanded you, and you go and serve other gods and bow to them, the anger of God’s own name. The Hebrew writes YHWH. See the glossary. will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that he has given you.