Joshua 23:4-13

4See, 1I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun. 5The Lord your God, He will thrust them out from before you and 23drive them from before you; and 4you will possess their land, just as the Lord your God 5promised you. 66Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left, 7so that you will not 7associate with these nations, these which remain among you, or 8mention the name of their gods, or 9make anyone swear by them, or 10serve them, or bow down to them. 8But you are to cling to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day. 911For the Lord has 12driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, 13no man has stood before you to this day. 1014One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lord your God is 15He who fights for you, just as He 16promised you. 11So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God. 12For if you ever go back and 17cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and 18intermarry with them, so that you 19associate with them and they with you, 13know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to 20drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a 21snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.