^31 (A)I will set your boundary from the ^[a]Red Sea to the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the Euphrates River; ^(B)for I will hand over the inhabitants of the land to you, and you will ^(C)drive them out from you. ^32 (D)You shall ^[b]make no covenant with them ^(E)or with their gods. ^33 (F)They shall not live in your land, otherwise they will make you sin against Me; for if you serve their gods, ^(G)it is certain to be a snare to you.”

^12 (A)Be careful that you do not make a 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 memorial stones, and cut down their ^[a](C)Asherim ¹⁴ —for ^(D)you shall not worship any other god, because 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 prostitute themselves with their gods and ^(E)sacrifice to their gods, and someone ^(F)might invite you ^[b]to eat of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and ^(G)you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons also to prostitute themselves with their gods.

³ Furthermore, ^(A)you shall not intermarry with them: you shall not give your ^[a]daughters to ^[b]their sons, nor shall you take ^[c]their daughters for your ^[d]sons.