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Then Joshua said to the people, "You will not be able to serve the LORD, ^(C1)for He is a holy God. He is ^(C2)a jealous God; ^(C3)He will not forgive your wrongdoing or your sins.

"^(C1)If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and destroy you after He has done good to you."

And the people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the LORD."

So Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that ^(C1)you have chosen for yourselves the LORD, to serve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses."

"Now then, do away with the foreign gods which are in your midst, and ^(C1)incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel."

And ^(C1)the people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and ^(F1)obey His voice."

^(C1)So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

And Joshua ^(C1)wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

Then Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, ^(C1)this stone shall be a witness against us, because it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke ^(F1)to us; so it shall be a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God."

Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance.