Take for you out of the people twelve men, one man -- one man out of a tribe;

and the sons of Israel have not been able to stand before their enemies; the neck they turn before their enemies, for they have become a devoted thing; I add not to be with you -- if ye destroy not the devoted thing out of your midst.

and all the people who are in the city are called to pursue after them, and they pursue after Joshua, and are drawn away out of the city,

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,

And I send Moses and Aaron, and plague Egypt, as I have done in its midst, and afterwards I have brought you out.

and I have not been willing to hearken to Balaam, and he doth greatly bless you, and I deliver you out of his hand.