Exo 34:12-14 | NASB1995 | STEP | “ 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 .

d Deut 16:21; Judg 6:25, 26; 2 Kin 18:4; 2 Chr 34:3f

Exodus 34:12-14

12 ^a“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 ^b“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
,} ^dAsherim 14 —for ^eyou shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—