^12 (A)Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a ^(B)snare in your midst.

^32 (A)You shall make no covenant with them and their gods. ³³ They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, ^(B)it will surely be a snare to you.”

¹² For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you ^(A)and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, ¹³ know for certain that ^(B)the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, ^(C)but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the Lord your God has given you.

^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.

^2 (A)and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ^(B)you shall break down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed my voice. What is this you have done? ³ So now I say, ^(C)I will not drive them out before you, but they shall become ^(D)thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.”

¹⁶ And ^(A)you shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. ^(B)Your eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be ^(C)a snare to you.

²⁷ And Gideon ^(A)made an ephod of it and put it in his city, ^(B)in Ophrah. And all Israel ^(C)whored after it there, and it became a ^(D)snare to Gideon and to his family.