¹In po mnogih dnevih, ko je bil dal GOSPOD pokoj Izraelu od vseh njegovih sovražnikov povsod okoli, in Jozue je bil že star in prileten,

¹And it cometh to pass, many days after that Jehovah hath given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua is old, entering into days,

²skliče Jozue vse Izraelce in njih starejšine, poglavarje, sodnike in oblastnike in jim reče: Star sem in prileten;

²and Joshua calleth for all Israel, for its elders, and for its heads, and for its judges, and for its authorities, and saith unto them, `I have become old; I have entered into days;

³vi pa ste videli vse, kar je storil GOSPOD, Bog vaš, vsem tem narodom spričo vas, zakaj GOSPOD, Bog vaš, on je, ki se je bojeval za vas.

³and ye — ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done to all these nations because of you, for Jehovah your God [is] He who is fighting for you;

⁴Glejte, pridelil sem vam po žrebu te narode, kar jih je še ostalo, v dediščino vašim rodovom, od Jordana z vsemi narodi vred, ki sem jih iztrebil, do velikega morja proti solnčnemu zahodu.

⁴see, I have caused to fall to you these nations who are left for an inheritance to your tribes, from the Jordan, (and all the nations which I cut off), and the great sea, the going in of the sun.

⁵GOSPOD pa, vaš Bog, jih izpahne pred vami ter jih prežene izpred obličja vašega, in posedete njih deželo, kakor vam je obljubil GOSPOD, Bog vaš.

⁵`As to Jehovah your God, He doth thrust them from your presence, and hath dispossessed them from before you, and ye have possessed their land, as Jehovah your God hath spoken to you,

⁶Bodite torej prav trdni, da hranite in izpolnjujete vse, kar je pisano v knjigi Mojzesovega zakona, da se od tega ne ganete ne na desno, ne na levo;

⁶and ye have been very strong to keep and to do the whole that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so as not to turn aside from it right or left,

⁷da ne pridete med te narode, med tiste, ki preostajajo med vami, in se ne spominjate imena njih bogov in ne prisegate pri njih, tudi jim ne služite in jih ne molite;

⁷so as not to go in among these nations, these who are left with you; and of the name of their gods ye do not make mention, nor do ye swear, nor do ye serve them, nor do ye bow yourselves to them;

⁸ampak oklepajte se GOSPODA, Boga svojega, kakor ste delali do tega dne.

⁸but to Jehovah your God ye do cleave, as ye have done till this day.

⁹Zakaj GOSPOD je zatrl pred vami velike in mogočne narode, in kar se vas tiče, nihče ni mogel stati pred vami do tega dne.

⁹And Jehovah is dispossessing from before you nations great and mighty; as for you, none hath stood in your presence till this day;

¹⁰Eden vaših jih lahko podi tisoč, kajti GOSPOD, Bog vaš, on je, ki se bojuje za vas, kakor vam je govoril.

¹⁰one man of you doth pursue a thousand, for Jehovah your God [is] He who is fighting for you, as He hath spoken to you;

¹¹Zato skrbno čuvajte duše svoje, da ljubite GOSPODA, svojega Boga!

¹¹and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.

¹²Sicer če kakorkoli pojdete nazaj in se oklenete ostanka teh narodov, tistih, ki so preostali med vami, in se boste ženili in možile ž njimi, da pridete med nje in oni med vas:

¹²`But — if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you,

¹³vedite prav gotovo, da ne bo več GOSPOD, Bog vaš, zatiral teh narodov pred vami, temuč vam bodo v zanko in v zadrgo in kakor bič na bokih in trnje v očeh, dokler ne poginete s površja te dobre dežele, ki vam jo je dal GOSPOD, Bog vaš.

¹³know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.

¹⁴In glejte, jaz odhajam danes po poti vsega zemeljskega. Spoznajte torej z vsem svojim srcem in z vso dušo svojo, da ni izginila ne ena beseda iz vseh dobrih obljub, ki jih je za vas govoril GOSPOD, Bog vaš; vse se je uresničilo, ne ena beseda ni izginila.

¹⁴`And lo, I am going, to-day, in the way of all the earth, and ye have known — with all your heart, and with all your soul — that there hath not fallen one thing of all the good things which Jehovah your God hath spoken concerning you; the whole have come to you; there hath not failed of it one thing.

¹⁵Kakor pa se je izpolnila vsaka dobra beseda, ki jo je GOSPOD, vaš Bog, govoril za vas, tako stori GOSPOD, da se uresniči nad vami vsaka huda beseda, dokler vas ne iztrebi s površja te dobre zemlje, ki vam jo je dal GOSPOD, vaš Bog.Ako prestopite zavezo GOSPODA, Boga svojega, ki vam jo je zapovedal, in pojdete služit drugim bogovom in jih boste molili, tedaj se vname jeza GOSPODOVA zoper vas, in hitro poginete s površja te dobre dežele, ki vam jo dal.

¹⁵`And it hath been, as there hath come upon you all the good thing which Jehovah your God hath spoken unto you, so doth Jehovah bring upon you the whole of the evil thing, till His destroying you from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you;

¹⁶Ako prestopite zavezo GOSPODA, Boga svojega, ki vam jo je zapovedal, in pojdete služit drugim bogovom in jih boste molili, tedaj se vname jeza GOSPODOVA zoper vas, in hitro poginete s površja te dobre dežele, ki vam jo dal.

¹⁶in your transgressing the covenant of Jehovah your God which He commanded you, and ye have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, then hath the anger of Jehovah burned against you, and ye have perished hastily from off the good land which He hath given to you.`