Joshua 23:6–13

⁶and ye have been very strong to keep and to do the whole that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so as not to turn aside from it right or left, ⁷so as not to go in among these nations, these who are left with you; and of the name of their gods ye do not make mention, nor do ye swear, nor do ye serve them, nor do ye bow yourselves to them; ⁸but to Jehovah your God ye do cleave, as ye have done till this day. ⁹And Jehovah is dispossessing from before you nations great and mighty; as for you, none hath stood in your presence till this day; ¹⁰one man of you doth pursue a thousand, for Jehovah your God is He who is fighting for you, as He hath spoken to you.

¹¹And ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God. ¹²‘But—if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you, ¹³know certainly that Jehovah your God is not continuing to dispossess these nations from before you, and they have been to you for a gin, and for a snare, and for a scourge, in your sides, and for thorns in your eyes, till ye perish from off this good ground which Jehovah your God hath given to you.