¹¹ “^[a]Be sure to observe 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)Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. ^13 (C)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their ^[b](D)Asherim ¹⁴ —for ^(E)you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God— ¹⁵ otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and ^(F)sacrifice to their gods, and someone ^(G)might invite you ^[c]to eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and ^(H)you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

Warnings

7 “^(A)When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and 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 greater and stronger than you, ² and when the Lord your God delivers them before you and you ^[a]defeat them, ^(C)then you shall ^[b]utterly destroy them. ^(D)You shall make 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 ^[c]daughters to ^[d]their sons, nor shall you take ^[e]their daughters for your ^[f]sons. ⁴ For ^[g]they will turn your ^[h]sons away from ^[i]following Me to serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord 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 smash their sacred pillars, and hew down their ^[j]Asherim, 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 ^[a]race has ^(C)intermingled with the peoples of the lands; indeed, the hands of the princes and the rulers 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.