¹⁰And he said, “Look, I am about to make a covenant. In front of all your people I will do wonders that have not been created on all the earth and among all the nations, and all the people among whom you are will see Yahweh’s work, because what I am about to do with you will be awesome.

¹¹“Keep for yourself what I myself have commanded you today. Look, I am about to drive from before you the Amorites and the Canaanites^e and the Hittites^f and the Perizzites^g and the Hivites^h and the Jebusites.ⁱ ¹²Be careful for yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, lest it be a snare among you. ¹³Rather, you will tear down their altars, and you will break their stone pillars, and you will cut off their Asherah poles. ¹⁴For you will not bow in worship to another god, for ‘Yahweh Is Jealous’ is his name, he is a jealous God, ¹⁵lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute themselves after their gods, and they sacrifice to their gods, and they invite you, and you eat their sacrifice, ¹⁶and you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods, and they cause your sons to prostitute themselves after their gods. ¹⁷You will not make gods of cast metal for yourself.

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Footnotes

eHebrew “Canaanite”
fHebrew “Hittite”
gHebrew “Perizzite”
hHebrew “Hivite”
iHebrew “Jebusite”