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Don’t intermarry with them. Don’t give your daughter to one of their sons to marry, and don’t take one of their daughters to marry your son, because they will turn your child away from following me so that they end up serving other gods. That will make the Lord’s anger burn against you, and he will quickly annihilate you.

Instead, this is what you must do with these nations: rip down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their sacred poles,[a] and burn their idols

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 Heb asherim, perhaps objects devoted to the goddess Asherah

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