⁸ Then ^(A)all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.

¹⁸ And the Lord drove out from before us all the people, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. ^(A)We also will serve the Lord, for He is our God.”

^16 (A)So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the Lord. And ^(B)His soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel.

¹⁰ Then they cried out to the Lord, and said, ^(A)‘We have sinned, because we have forsaken the Lord ^(B)and served the Baals and ^[a]Ashtoreths; but now deliver us from the hand of our enemies, and we will serve You.’