Exodus 34:10–17

The Covenant Renewed

¹⁰He said, “I hereby make a covenant. Before all your people I will perform marvels, such as have not been done^q in all the earth or in any nation, and all the people among whom you live shall see the work of the Lord, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you.^*

¹¹“Observe what I command you today. See, I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.^{* 12}Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or it will become a snare among you.^{* 13}Rather, you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and cut down their sacred poles,^{r* 14}for you shall worship no other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.^{* 15}You shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, someone among them will invite you, and you will eat of the sacrifice,^{* 16}and you will take wives from among their daughters for your sons, and their daughters who prostitute themselves to their gods will make your sons also prostitute themselves to their gods.^*

¹⁷“You shall not make cast idols.^*