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Do not intermarry with them, nor let your sons and daughters marry their sons and daughters. That would surely result in your young people’s beginning to worship their gods. Then the anger of the Lord would be hot against you, and he would surely destroy you.

“You must break down the heathen altars and shatter the obelisks and cut up the shameful images and burn the idols.

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Do not intermarry with them.(A) Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods,(B) and the Lord’s anger will burn against you and will quickly destroy(C) you. This is what you are to do to them: Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones, cut down their Asherah poles[a](D) and burn their idols in the fire.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:5 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah; here and elsewhere in Deuteronomy