gSee Deut. 16:21
Exodus 23:32-33
32 aYou shall make no covenant with them and their gods. 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me; for if you serve their gods, bit will surely be a snare to you.”Exodus 34:12-16
12 cTake care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a dsnare in your midst. 13You shall etear down their altars and fbreak their pillars and cut down their gAsherim 14(for hyou shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God), 15 ilest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they jwhore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and kyou are invited, you eat of his sacrifice, 16and you take of ltheir daughters for your sons, and their daughters mwhore after their gods and make your sons whore after their gods.Numbers 33:52-53
52then nyou shall drive out oall the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their pfigured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places. 53And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.Deuteronomy 7:2-4
2 qand when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must rdevote them to complete destruction. ▼▼That is, set apart ( devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
tYou shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them. 3 uYou shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons, 4for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. vThen the anger of the Lord would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you wquickly. Deuteronomy 7:16
16And xyou shall consume all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you. yYour eye shall not pity them, neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be za snare to you.Deuteronomy 7:25-26
25The carved images of their gods aayou shall burn with fire. You abshall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be acensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction ▼▼That is, set apart ( devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse
like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, aefor it is devoted to destruction. Deuteronomy 12:2-3
2 afYou shall surely destroy all the places where the nations whom you shall dispossess served their gods, agon the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. 3You shall tear down their altars and dash in pieces ahtheir pillars and burn their aiAsherim with fire. You shall chop down the carved images of their gods and ajdestroy their name out of that place.
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