⁵² then ^(A)you shall drive out ^(B)all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their ^(C)figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places.

²⁴ you shall ^(A)not bow down to their gods nor serve them, ^(B)nor do as they do, but ^(C)you shall utterly overthrow them and break their ^(D)pillars in pieces.

¹⁶ But ^(A)in the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, ¹⁷ but ^(B)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 ^(C)they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done for their gods, and so you ^(D)sin against the Lord your God.

Blessings for Obedience

26 “You shall not make ^(A)idols for yourselves or erect an ^(B)image or ^(C)pillar, and you shall not set up a ^(D)figured stone in your land to bow down to it, for I am the Lord your God.

^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. ^3 (D)You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, ⁴ for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. ^(E)Then the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you ^(F)quickly. ⁵ But thus shall you deal with them: ^(G)you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their ^(H)pillars and chop down their ^(I)Asherim and ^(J)burn their carved images with fire.

^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?

^7 (A)that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you ^(B)or make mention of the names of their gods ^(C)or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them,

³⁰ take care ^(A)that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same.’ ^31 (B)You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every ^(C)abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for ^(D)they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods.