Joshua 24:19-28

19Joshua said to them, ‘The Lord is a holy God. You will not be able to serve him. He wants you to belong to him. If you turn against him or you do not obey him, he will not forgive you.

20If you turn away from the Lord and you serve foreign gods, he will turn against you. He has been kind and he has helped you until now. But he will bring trouble to you and he will destroy you, if you turn away from him.’

21The people said to Joshua, ‘Never! We will only serve the Lord.’

22Joshua said to them, ‘You yourselves have chosen to serve the Lord. Agree now that you have done that.’ They replied, ‘Yes, we agree!’

23Joshua said, ‘So now you must throw away the foreign gods that you still keep. Trust the Lord, Israel's God, and obey him.’

24The people said to Joshua, ‘We will serve the Lord our God and we will obey him.’

25That same day, Joshua made an agreement for the people to accept. There at Shechem, he made a list of rules and laws for them to obey.

26Joshua wrote these things in the Book of God's Law. Then he took a big stone. He stood it there under the oak tree that was near the Lord's holy place.

27Joshua said to all the people, ‘Look at this stone! It has heard everything that the Lord has said to us today! It will speak against you if you fail to obey your God!’

28Then Joshua sent the people away. They went to the parts of the land that now belonged to each of them.