Discovery BoxJoshua 24:24-29 
Context24:24 The people said to Joshua, “We will worship 1 the Lord our God and obey him.” 2
24:25 That day Joshua drew up an agreement 3 for the people, and he established rules and regulations 4 for them in Shechem. 24:26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine. 24:27 Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against you, for it has heard everything the Lord said to us. 5 It will be a witness against you if 6 you deny your God.” 24:28 When Joshua dismissed the people, they went to their allotted portions of land. 7
24:29 After all this 8 Joshua son of Nun, the Lord’s servant, died at the age of one hundred ten.
1 tn Or “will serve.”
2 tn Heb “and listen to his voice.”
3 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
4 tn Heb “a statute and a judgment.”
5 tn Heb “all the words of the
6 tn Or “lest,” “so that you might not.”
7 tn Heb “And Joshua sent the people away, each to his inheritance.”
8 tn Heb “after these things.”
