- 23:1 And many days after Jehovah had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them and Joshua was old and advanced in age,
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耶和华使以色列人得安息，不被四围一切仇敌扰乱；过了多日，约书亚年纪老迈，
- 23:2 Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers; and he said to them, I am old and advanced in age;
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就把以色列众人，把他们的长老、首领、审判官、并官长都召了来，对他们说，我年纪已经老迈；
- 23:3 And you have seen all that Jehovah your God has done to all these nations because of you, for it was Jehovah your God who fought for you.
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耶和华你们的神，因你们的缘故，向那些国所行的一切事，你们都看见了，因那为你们争战的是耶和华你们的神。
- 23:4 See, I have allotted to you all these nations that remain as an inheritance for your tribes, as well as all the nations that I cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.
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看哪，从约但河起到日落之处的大海，我所剪除的各国和剩下的这些国，我都已经拈阄分给你们各支派为业。
- 23:5 And Jehovah your God, He will thrust them out before you and dispossess them out of your sight; and you will possess their land, as Jehovah your God spoke to you.
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耶和华你们的神必将他们从你们面前撵出，将他们从你们面前赶出去；你们就必得他们的地为业，正如耶和华你们的神对你们所说的。
- 23:6 Therefore be very strong to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, not turning away from it to the right or to the left,
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所以，你们要分外刚强，谨守遵行写在摩西律法书上的一切话，不可偏离左右，
- 23:7 And not going unto these nations, these that remain with you; neither shall you make mention of the names of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them, nor serve them, nor bow down to them;
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不可与你们中间所剩下的这些国民搀杂；他们的神，你们不可题他们的名，不可指着他们起誓，也不可事奉、跪拜；
- 23:8 But you shall cling to Jehovah your God, as you have done to this day.
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只要照着你们到今日所行的，紧联于耶和华你们的神。
- 23:9 For Jehovah has dispossessed great and strong nations because of you; but as for you, no one has stood before you to this day.
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因为耶和华已经把又大又强的国民从你们面前赶出；至于你们，直到今日，没有一人在你们面前站立得住。
- 23:10 One man of you chases a thousand, for it is Jehovah your God who fights for you, as He has spoken to you.
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你们一人必追赶千人，因耶和华你们的神照祂对你们所说的，为你们争战。
- 23:11 Be very careful therefore for yourselves, that you love Jehovah your God.
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你们要分外谨慎，爱耶和华你们的神。
- 23:12 But if you do indeed turn back and cling to the remainder of these nations, these that remain with you, and marry into them, and go among them and they among you;
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你们若稍微转去，依附你们中间所剩下的这些国民，与他们彼此结亲，互相往来，
- 23:13 Know for certain that Jehovah your God will no longer dispossess these nations out of your sight, but they will become a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Jehovah your God has given you.
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你们要确实知道，耶和华你们的神，必不再将他们从你们面前赶出去；他们却要成为你们的网罗、陷阱、肋上的鞭、眼中的刺，直到你们在耶和华你们神所赐的这美地上灭亡。
- 23:14 And now today I am going the way of all the earth; and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not a word has failed of all the good things that Jehovah your God spoke concerning you. All has come to pass for you; not one word of it has failed.
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看哪，我今日要走全地之人必走的路；你们是全心全魂的知道，耶和华你们神所说，要赐给你们好处的话，没有一句落空。这一切都应验在你们身上，没有一句落空。
- 23:15 But just as all the good things that Jehovah your God spoke concerning you have come upon you, so will Jehovah cause all the evil things to come upon you, until He has destroyed you from this good land that Jehovah your God has given you.
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耶和华你们神所说要赐给你们的一切好处怎样临到你们身上，耶和华也必照样使一切祸患临到你们身上，直到把你们从耶和华你们神所赐的这美地上除灭。
- 23:16 When you transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down to them, the anger of Jehovah will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land that He has given you.
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你们若违背耶和华你们神所吩咐你们遵守的约，去事奉别神，跪拜他们，耶和华的怒气必向你们发作，使你们在祂所赐的美地上速速灭亡。