Exodus 34:10–17

Yahweh Cuts a Covenant with Israel

¹⁰Then ¹God said, “Behold, ^aI am going to cut a covenant. Before all your people ^bI will do wondrous deeds which have not been created in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ²among whom you live will see the working of Yahweh, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to do with you.

¹¹“¹Be sure to keep what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^aI am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

¹²“^aBeware lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.

¹³“^aBut rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their ^1bAsherim

¹⁴—for ^ayou shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

¹⁵lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and ^asacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^binvite you ¹to eat of his sacrifice,

¹⁶and ^ayou take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

¹⁷“^aYou shall make for yourself no molten gods.