Warnings
1 "When the Lord your God brings you into the land where you are entering to take possession of it, and He drives away many nations from before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you, 2 and when the Lord your God turns them over to you and you 7:2 Lit strikedefeat them, you shall 7:2 Or certainly devote to the banutterly destroy them. You shall not make a covenant with them nor be gracious to them. 3 Furthermore, you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your 7:3 Lit daughterdaughters to 7:3 Lit his sontheir sons, nor shall you take 7:3 Lit his daughtertheir daughters for your 7:3 Lit sonsons. 4 For 7:4 Lit hethey will turn your 7:4 Lit sonsons away from 7:4 Lit afterfollowing Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you and He will quickly destroy you. 5 But this is what you shall do to them: you shall tear down their altars, smash their memorial stones, cut their 7:5 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah)Asherim to pieces, and burn their carved images in the fire.