And in that you saw the iron mixed with common clay, they will combine with one another in the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, even as iron does not combine with pottery.

A mixed multitude also went up with them, along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.

For they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.”

But they mingled with the nations
And learned their practices,

Ephraim mixes himself with the nations;
Ephraim has become a cake not turned.

So when they heard the law, they excluded all foreigners from Israel.

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?

And a mongrel race will dwell in Ashdod,
And I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.