Joshua 23:2-13

2And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them: “I am old, advanced in age.

3You have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you, for the Lord your God is He who has fought for you.

4See, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, as far as the Great Sea westward.

5And the Lord your God will expel them from before you and drive them out of your sight. So you shall possess their land, as the Lord your God promised you.

6Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, lest you turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

7and lest you go among these nations, these who remain among you. You shall not make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause anyone to swear by them; you shall not serve them nor bow down to them,

8but you shall hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.

9For the Lord has driven out from before you great and strong nations; but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.

10One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, as He promised you.

11Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God.

12Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you,

13know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.