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</span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>and you have seen all that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God who has fought for you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>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. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God will push them back before you, and drive them out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God promised you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Therefore be very steadfast to observe and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right nor to the left, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>so 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 yourselves down to them, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>but hold fast to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God, as you have done to this day. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no one has been able to withstand you to this day. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>One of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God who fights for you, as he promised you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Be very careful, therefore, to love the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>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, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>know assuredly that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> 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 <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has given you.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>“And now I am about to go the way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts and souls, all of you, that not one thing has failed of all the good things that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God promised concerning you; all have come to pass for you, not one of them has failed. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>But just as all the good things that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will bring upon you all the bad things, until he has destroyed you from this good land that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God has given you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>If you transgress the covenant of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> your God, which he enjoined on you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you.”</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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