Joshua 23:12

Joshua’s Charge to Leaders

11Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.12For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,13know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.

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Berean Standard Bible
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
American Standard Version (1901)
Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you;
Bible in Basic English
For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:
Free Bible Version
For if you do turn from him, and adopt the ways of the nations that are left, if you intermarry with them, associating with one other,
Geneva Bible 1599
Els, if ye goe backe, and cleaue vnto the rest of these nations: that is, of them that remaine with you, and shall make marriages with them, and goe vnto them, and they to you,
King James (Authorized) Version
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
Translation for Translators
“If you turn away from doing what Yahweh desires and you associate with the people who are not Israelis, and if you marry them,
Unlocked Literal Bible
But if you turn back and cling to the survivors of these nations who remain among you, or if you intermarry with them, or if you come together with them and they with you,
Noah Webster Bible
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and associate with them, and they with you:
World English Bible
“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;
Young's Literal Translation
'But — if ye at all turn back and have cleaved to the remnant of these nations, these who are left with you, and intermarried with them, and gone in to them, and they to you,