² and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, ^(A)then you shall devote them to destruction. ^(B)You shall cut no covenant with them ^(C)and show no favor to them.

^16 (A)Only in the cities of these peoples that Yahweh your God is giving you as an inheritance, you shall not leave alive anything that breathes. ¹⁷ But you shall devote them to destruction, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, as Yahweh your God has commanded you, ¹⁸ so that they may not teach you to do ^(B)according to all their abominations which they have done for their gods, so that you would ^(C)sin against Yahweh your God.