1 After a long time had passed and the LORD had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man,2 summoned all Israel —their elders, leaders, judges and officials —and said to them: "I am very old.3 You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you.4 Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain —the nations I conquered —between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.5 The LORD your God himself will push them out for your sake. He will drive them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.6 "Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left.7 Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them.8 But you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now.9 "The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you.10 One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as he promised.11 So be very careful to love the LORD your God.12 "But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,13 then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.14 "Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.15 But just as all the good things the LORD your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the LORD your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you.16 If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD's anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you."

1 Evoluto autem multo tempore, postquam pacem dederat Dominus Israli, subjectis in gyro nationibus universis, et Josue jam longvo, et persenilis tatis, 2 vocavit Josue omnem Isralem, majoresque natu, et principes ac duces, et magistros, dixitque ad eos : Ego senui, et progressioris tatis sum : 3 vosque cernitis omnia, qu fecerit Dominus Deus vester cunctis per circuitum nationibus, quomodo pro vobis ipse pugnaverit : 4 et nunc quia vobis sorte divisit omnem terram, ab orientali parte Jordanis usque ad mare magnum, multque adhuc supersunt nationes : 5 Dominus Deus vester disperdet eas et auferet a facie vestra, et possidebitis terram, sicut vobis pollicitus est. 6 Tantum confortamini, et estote solliciti, ut custodiatis cuncta qu scripta sunt in volumine legis Moysi : et non declinetis ab eis neque ad dexteram neque ad sinistram : 7 ne postquam intraveritis ad gentes qu inter vos futur sunt, juretis in nomine deorum earum, et serviatis eis, et adoretis illos : 8 sed adhreatis Domino Deo vestro : quod fecistis usque in diem hanc. 9 Et tunc auferet Dominus Deus in conspectu vestro gentes magnas et robustissimas, et nullus vobis resistere poterit. 10 Unus e vobis persequetur hostium mille viros : quia Dominus Deus vester pro vobis ipse pugnabit, sicut pollicitus est. 11 Hoc tantum diligentissime prcavete : ut diligatis Dominum Deum vestrum. 12 Quod si volueritis gentium harum, qu inter vos habitant, erroribus adhrere, et cum eis miscere connubia, atque amicitias copulare : 13 jam nunc scitote quod Dominus Deus vester non eas deleat ante faciem vestram, sed sint vobis in foveam ac laqueum, et offendiculum ex latere vestro, et sudes in oculis vestris, donec vos auferat atque disperdat de terra hac optima, quam tradidit vobis. 14 En ego hodie ingredior viam univers terr, et toto animo cognoscetis quod de omnibus verbis, qu se Dominus prstiturum vobis esse pollicitus est, unum non prterierit incassum. 15 Sicut ergo implevit opere quod promisit, et prospera cuncta venerunt : sic adducet super vos quidquid malorum comminatus est, donec vos auferat atque disperdat de terra hac optima, quam tradidit vobis, 16 eo quod prterieritis pactum Domini Dei vestri, quod pepigit vobiscum, et servieritis diis alienis, ad adoraveritis eos : cito atque velociter consurget in vos furor Domini, et auferemini ab hac terra optima, quam tradidit vobis.