and you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.

Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, along with all the nations that I have already cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.

that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down yourselves to them,

For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no man has been able to withstand you to this day.

For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, till you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.