¹⁰Then the Lord said, “I am making a covenant with you. I will do wonderful things in front of all of your people. I will do miracles that have never been done before in any nation in the whole world. The people you live among will see the things that I, the Lord, will do for you. And they will see how wonderful those things really are.

¹¹“Obey what I command you today. I will drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites to make room for you.

¹²“Be careful. Do not make a peace treaty with those who live in the land where you are going. They will be a trap to you. ¹³Tear down their altars. Smash their sacred stones. Cut down the poles they use to worship the goddess Asherah. ¹⁴Do not worship any other god. I am a jealous God. In fact, my name is Jealous.

¹⁵“Be careful not to make a peace treaty with those who live in the land. They commit sin by offering sacrifices to their gods. They will invite you to eat their sacrifices. ¹⁶You will choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons. And those daughters will commit sin by worshiping their gods. Then they will lead your sons to do the same thing.

¹⁷“Do not make statues of gods.

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