⁶Only take courage, and be careful to observe all things that are written in the book of the law of Moses: and turn not aside from them neither to the right hand nor to the left:

⁷Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them:

⁸But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this day.

⁹And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.

¹⁰One of you shall chase a thousand men of the enemies: because the Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised.

¹¹This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God.

¹²But if you will embrace the errors of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join friendships:

¹³Know ye for a certainty that the Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare in your way, and a stumbling-block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from off this excellent land, which he hath given you.

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Joshua 23:8: but you shall cling to the LORD your God just as you have done to this day.

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