4 See, I have apportioned among your tribes as their heritage the nations that survive, as well as those I destroyed, between the Jordan and the Great Sea in the west.
5 The Lord, your God, will drive them out and dispossess them at your approach, so that you will take possession of their land as the Lord, your God, promised you.
6 Therefore be strong and be careful to observe all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, never turning from it right or left,
7 or mingling with these nations that survive among you. You must not invoke their gods by name, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them,
8 but you must hold fast to the Lord, your God, as you have done up to this day.
9 At your approach the Lord has dispossessed great and strong nations; not one has withstood you up to this day.
10 One of you puts to flight a thousand, because it is the Lord, your God, himself who fights for you, as he promised you.