Exo 34:11-16 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day : behold , I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite , the Hittite , the Perizzite , the Hivite and the Jebusite .

Exodus 34:11-16

11 ^{▼▼ Lit Observe for yourself}“Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, ^bI am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. 12 ^c“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 ^d“But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their ^{▼▼ I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity
,} ^fAsherim 14 —for ^gyou 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 ^hsacrifice to their gods, and someone ⁱmight invite you ^{▼▼ Lit and you eat}to eat of his sacrifice, 16 and ^kyou 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.