¹¹ “^[a]Be sure to keep what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^(A)I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite. ^12 (B)Beware 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 (C)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut down their ^[b](D)Asherim ¹⁴ —for ^(E)you shall not worship any other god, for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— ¹⁵ lest you cut a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot with their gods and ^(F)sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(G)invite you ^[c]to eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and ^(H)you 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.

Devote the Nations to Destruction

7 “^(A)When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and He clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, ^(B)seven nations more numerous and stronger than you, ² and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, ^(C)then you shall devote them to destruction. ^(D)You shall cut no covenant with them ^(E)and show no favor to them. ³ Furthermore, ^(F)you shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your ^[a]daughters to ^[b]their sons, nor shall you take ^[c]their daughters for your ^[d]sons. ⁴ For ^[e]they will turn your ^[f]sons away from ^[g]following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and ^(G)He will quickly destroy you. ⁵ But thus you shall do to them: ^(H)you shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their ^[h]Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire.

² For ^(A)they have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and for their sons, so that ^(B)the holy seed has ^(C)intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the officials have been foremost in this unfaithfulness.”

³⁰ and ^(A)that we will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.