2. Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.
3. You have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.
4. Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea towards the going down of the sun.
5. The Lord your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as the Lord your God spoke to you.
6. “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the scroll of the Torah of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;
7. that you not come amongst these nations, these that remain amongst you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;
8. but hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.
9. “For the Lord has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
10. One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
11. Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God.
12. “But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain amongst you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;