Joshua 23:4-13

4Behold, I have divided unto you by lot for an inheritance, according to your tribes, these nations that remain, from the Jordan, as well as all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the great sea toward the sun-setting.

5And Jehovah your 1God, he will expel them from before you, and dispossess them from out of your sight; and ye shall take possession of their land, as Jehovah your 2God hath said unto you.

6And be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;

7that ye enter not among these nations, these that remain among you; and ye shall make no mention of the name of their 3gods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them;

8but ye shall cleave unto Jehovah your 4God, as ye have done unto this day.

9For Jehovah hath dispossessed from before you great and strong nations; and as to you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day.

10One man of you chaseth a thousand; for Jehovah your 5God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath said unto you.

11Take great heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love Jehovah your 6God.

12For if ye in any wise go back, and cleave unto the residue of these nations, these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and come in unto them and they unto you:

13know for a certainty that Jehovah your 7God will no more dispossess these nations from before you, and they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your 8God hath given you.