Josué 23

1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years, 2 Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, "I am old and well advanced in years. 3 You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you. 4 Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun. 5 Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.

6 "Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left; 7 that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them; 8 but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.

9 "For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day. 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you. 11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

12 "But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; 13 know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.

14 "Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it. 15 It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you, 16 when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you."

Te Poroporoaki a Hohua

1 Ā, ka maha ngā rā i muri i tā Ihowā, meatanga i a Īharaira kia okioki i ō rātou hoariri katoa i tētahi taha, i tētahi taha, ā, ka maha haere ngā rā o Hohua, ka koroheketia, 2 nā, ka karanga a Hohua ki a Īharaira katoa, ki ō rātou kaumātua, ki ō rātou ariki, ki ō rātou kaiwhakariterite, ki ō rātou rangatira, ā, ka mea ki a rātou: "Kua koroheketia ahau, kua maha ōku rā; 3 ā, kua kite koutou i ngā mea katoa i mea ai a Ihowā, tō koutou Atua ki ēnei iwi katoa, nā te whakaaro hoki ki a koutou; nō te mea ko Ihowā ko tō koutou Atua, nāna tā koutou riri. 4 Titiro, kua oti te wehe atu e ahau mō koutou ēnei iwi ka mahue nei, hei wāhi tupu mō ō koutou iwi, ō Horano atu me ngā iwi katoa i hunā e ahau ā tae noa ki te Moana Nui, ki te toenetanga o te rā. 5 Ā, ko Ihowā, ko tō koutou Atua, māna rātou e pei i tō koutou aroaro, māna hoki rātou e huna i tō koutou aroaro; ā, ka riro tō rātou oneone i a koutou, ka pērā me te kupu a Ihowā, a tō koutou Atua ki a koutou.

6 "Nō reira kia uaua rawa ki te pupuri, ki te mahi i ngā mea katoa i tuhituhia ki te Pukapuka o te Ture a Mohi, kei peka kē i reira ki matau, ki mauī, 7 kei haere hoki ki roto ki ēnei iwi, i mahue iho nei ki waenganui i a koutou; kei whakahuatia ngā ingoa o ō rātou atua, kei oatitia, kei mahi ki a rātou, kei koropiko ki a rātou. 8 Engari, me awhi ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua, me pērā me tā koutou i mea ai ā tae noa mai ki tēnei rā.

9 "Kua peia hoki e Ihowā i mua i a koutou ngā iwi nunui, kaha hoki; tēnā ko koutou, kāhore anō tētahi tangata kia tū ki tō koutou aroaro ā taea noatia tēnei rā. 10 Kia kotahi tangata o koutou hei whai i te mano; nō te mea ko Ihowā, ko tō koutou Atua, māna tā koutou riri, ka pērā me tāna i kōrero ai ki a koutou. 11 Nā reira tiakina mārietia koutou, kia aroha ai koutou ki a Ihowā, ki tō koutou Atua.

12 "Ki te anga hoki koutou ki te hoki atu, ki te awhi ki ngā toenga o ēnei iwi, o ēnei ka mahue nei i roto i a koutou, ā, ka mārenatia ki a rātou, ka whakauru hoki ki a rātou, me rātou hoki ki a koutou; 13 kia tino mōhio, e kore a Ihowā, tō koutou Atua e pei anō i ēnei iwi i mua i a koutou; engari ka waiho rātou hei rore, hei māhanga mō koutou, hei whiu hoki mō ō koutou kaokao, hei koikoi i roto i ō koutou kanohi kia hunā rā anō koutou i runga i tēnei whenua pai ka hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tō koutou Atua ki a koutou.

14 "Nanā, ko āianei ahau haere ai i te huarahi o te whenua katoa; ā, e mōhio ana ō koutou ngākau katoa, ō koutou wairua katoa, kāhore anō i taka tētahi mea o ngā mea pai katoa i kōrerotia e Ihowā, e tō koutou Atua mō koutou; kua pono katoa ki a koutou, kāhore anō tētahi mea o ēnā i taka. 15 Nā tēnei ake ka rite ki te putanga mai ki a koutou o ngā mea pai katoa i kōrerotia e Ihowā, e tō koutou Atua ki a koutou, ka pērā anō te whakaputanga mai a Ihowā i ngā mea kino katoa ki a koutou, kia whakangaromia rā anō koutou e ia i tēnei whenua pai, kua hōmai nei e Ihowā, e tō koutou Atua ki a koutou. 16 Ina whakapaheketia e koutou te kawenata a Ihowā, a tō koutou Atua, i whakaritea mai nei e ia ki a koutou, ā, ka haere, ka mahi ki ngā atua kē, ka koropiko ki a rātou; ko reira mura ai te riri o Ihowā ki a koutou, ā, ka ngaro whakarere atu koutou i runga i te whenua pai kua hōmai nei e ia ki a koutou."