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The Book of Joshua, Chapter 24, Verse 25

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24
And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
King James Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
American Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
New English Translation
That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.
World English Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that [was] by the sanctuary of the LORD.
27
And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
28
So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
29
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old.
30
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
31
And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
32
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill [that pertained to] Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
1
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
2
And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand.