^2 (A)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must ^(B)devote them to complete destruction.^{[a] (C)}You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

¹⁷ but ^(A)you shall devote them to complete destruction,^[a] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded, ¹⁸ that ^(B)they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you ^(C)sin against the Lord your God.

¹⁸ But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel ^(A)a thing for destruction and ^(B)bring trouble upon it.

²¹ Then they ^(A)devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.

¹⁵ you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction,^[a] all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.

²⁶ And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction^[a] like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, ^(A)for it is devoted to destruction.