20If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
21And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
22And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
23Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
24And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.
25So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
26And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.
