19 And Joshua said to the people: 'You will not be able to serve the Lord. For he is a holy and powerful God, and he is jealous, and he will not ignore your wickedness and sins.
20 If you leave behind the Lord, and you serve foreign gods, he will turn himself, and he will afflict you, and he will overthrow you, after all the good that he has offered to you.'
21 And the people said to Joshua, 'By no means will it be as you are saying, but we will serve the Lord.'
22 And Joshua said to the people, 'You yourselves are witnesses, that you have chosen the Lord so that you may serve him.' And they answered, 'We are witnesses.'
23 'Now therefore,' he said, 'take away strange gods from among yourselves, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.'
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