“When Yahweh your God brings you into the land that you are about to enter into it^a to take possession of it, and he drives^b out many nations before you,^c the Hittites^d and the Girgashites^e and the Amorites^f and the Canaanites^gand the Perizzites and the Hivites^h and the Jebusites,ⁱ seven nations mightier and more numerous than you, ²and Yahweh your God will give them over to you^j and you defeat them, you must utterly destroy them;^k you shall not make a covenant with them, and you shall not show mercy to them. ³And you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your daughter to their son; and you shall not take his daughter for your son.^l ⁴For their^m sons and daughters will cause your sonⁿ to turn away from following me,^o and so they will serve other gods, and the anger of Yahweh would be kindled^p against you, and he would quickly destroy you. ⁵But this is what you must do to them: you shall break down their altars, and their stone pillars you shall smash, and their Asherah poles you shall hew down, and you shall burn their idols with fire.

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Footnotes

aLiterally “there”
bOr “he will drive out”
cLiterally “from your faces”
dHebrew “Hittite”
eHebrew “Girgashite”
fHebrew “Amorite”
gHebrew “Canaanite”
hHebrew “Hivite”
iHebrew “Jebusite”
jLiterally “to your faces” or “before you”
kLiterally “set them aside for destruction”
lGrammatically singular pronominal suffixes here can also be rendered “their”
mOr “his”
nOr “sons”
oLiterally from “behind/after me”
pLiterally “and it would become hot the nose of Yahweh”