Jozuego 23

1A long time afterwards, when the Lordhad given Israel rest from all its surrounding enemies, and when Joshua was old, far advanced in years, 2he summoned all Israel, their elders, their leaders, their judges, and their officers. “I am an old man,” he said, “well advanced in years. 3You have seen all that the Lordyour God has done for your sake to all these nations. It is the Lordyour God who has been fighting for you. 4I have allotted you to the remaining nations, after those which I have wiped out, and you will hold the land of these nations from the Jordan to the Mediterranean in the west. 5The Lordyour God will drive them out before you and evict them out of your sight, until you occupy their land, as the Lordyour God promised you. 6Be resolute, then, in carrying out and obeying all that is written in the law book of Moses, never swerving from it to the right or to the left, 7never mixing with those nations that remain beside you, never mentioning the names of their gods, never swearing by them nor serving them nor bowing down to them. 8Be loyal to the Lordyour God as you have been up until now. 9The Lordhas evicted great, powerful nations in front of you. To this day, no one has been able to hold their own against you. 10One of you routs a thousand men, for it is the Lordyour God who fights for you, as he promised you. 11Be careful, then, always to love the Lordyour God. 12Otherwise, if you turn to ally yourselves with the remnant of nations left beside you, and intermarry with them, and join with them and they with you, 13be sure of this, that the Lordyour God will no longer evict these nations before your eyes. They will be a danger to you, they will entrap you, they will be a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish off this fine country which the Lordyour God has assigned you. 14I am now going the way of all the earth. But you know in your own hearts and minds, all of you, that not one good promise made by the Lordabout you has ever failed. All have been fulfilled, and not one has failed. 15Well, as all the good promises have been fulfilled to you, of which the Lordyour God told you, so will the fulfil Lordall his threats to you until he wipes you off this fine country which the Lordyour God has given you.