¹⁰Then ¹God said, “Behold, ^aI am going to make a covenant. Before all your people ^bI will perform miracles which have not been ²produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people ³among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

¹¹“¹Be sure to observe 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“^aWatch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

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

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

¹⁵otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and ^asacrifice to their gods, and someone ^bmight invite you ¹to eat of his sacrifice,

¹⁶and ^ayou might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might 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.

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Footnotes

1Lit He
2Lit created
3Lit in whose midst you are
1Lit Observe for yourself
1I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
1Lit and you eat

Cross references

a Ex 34:27, 28; Deut 5:2
b Deut 4:32; Ps 72:18; 136:4
a Ex 33:2
a Ex 23:32, 33
a Ex 23:24; Deut 12:3
b Deut 16:21; Judg 6:25, 26; 2 Kin 18:4; 2 Chr 34:3f
a Ex 20:3, 5; Deut 4:24
a Ex 22:20; 32:8
b Num 25:1, 2; Deut 32:37, 38
a Deut 7:3; Josh 23:12, 13; 1 Kin 11:1–4
a Ex 20:4, 23; Lev 19:4; Deut 5:8