23 “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign godsf that are among you and yield your heartsg to the Lord, the God of Israel.”

24 And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God and obey him.”h

25 On that day Joshua made a covenanti for the people, and there at Shechemj he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.k 26 And Joshua recordedl these things in the Book of the Law of God.m Then he took a large stonen and set it up there under the oako near the holy place of the Lord.

27 “See!” he said to all the people. “This stonep will be a witnessq against us. It has heard all the words the Lord has said to us. It will be a witness against you if you are untruer to your God.”s

28 Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to their own inheritance.t

Buried in the Promised Land

24:29–31pp—Jdg 2:6–9

29 After these things, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, diedu at the age of a hundred and ten.v 30 And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath Serahc w in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.x

31 Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the eldersy who outlived him and who had experienced everything the Lord had done for Israel.

32 And Joseph’s bones,z which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt,a were buried at Shechem in the tract of landb that Jacob bought for a hundred pieces of silverd from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. This became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

33 And Eleazar son of Aaronc died and was buried at Gibeah,d which had been allotted to his son Phinehase in the hill countryf of Ephraim.