in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh. 024:016 The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods; 024:017 for Yahweh our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed; 024:018 and Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God. 024:019 Joshua said to the people, You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. 024:020 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he has done you good. 024:021 The people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve Yahweh. 024:022 Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve him. They said, We are witnesses. 024:023 Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel. 024:024 The people said to Joshua, Yahweh our God will we serve, and to his voice will we listen. 024:025 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 024:026 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. 024:027 Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God. 024:028 So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance. 024:029 It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old. 024:030 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 024:031 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel. 024:032 The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. 024:033 Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in the hill