6. “Now be very strong to observe and enact all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so that you do not deviate from it to the right or the left.
7. Do not assimilate with these peoples remaining among you. Do not invoke the names of their gods, nor swear by, serve, or worship them.
8. Instead, cling to the Lord your God, as you have done until today.
9. “For the Lord has dispossessed before you great and mighty peoples, and as for you, not a single man has been able to stand against you until today.
10. One man from among you can make a thousand flee, for it is the Lord your God who wages war for you, as He told you.
11. Now be careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God!
12. “For if you should turn and cling to the remainder of these peoples who are left with you, and you intermarry and assimilate with them, and they with you,
13. know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.
14. “Now, I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and souls that not a single word has failed out of all the good things that the Lord your God has said concerning you. All came true for you. Not a single word among them failed.
15. So just as every good thing that the Lord your God said to you came to be, even so the Lord can bring every bad thing upon you until He has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God gave you.
16. If you break the covenant of the Lord your God that He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land that He gave you.”