Joshua 23:11-13

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹¹ Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God. ¹² For if you turn back, and join the survivors of these nations left here among you, and intermarry with them, so that you marry their women and they yours, ¹³ 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, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.