¹⁰The Lord answered: I will make a covenant in the sight of all, I will do signs such as were never seen upon the earth, nor in any nations; that this people, in the midst of whom thou art, may see the terrible work of the Lord which I will do.

¹¹Observe all things which this day I command thee: I myself will drive out before thy face the Amorrhite, and the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite.

¹²Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:

¹³But destroy their altars, break their statues and cut down their groves:

¹⁴Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is jealous, he is a jealous God.

¹⁵Make no covenant with the men of those countries; lest, when they have committed fornication with their gods, and have adored their idols, some one call thee to eat of the things sacrificed.

¹⁶Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

¹⁷Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.

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