⁷ Pharaoh’s officials said to him, “How long will this man be a snare^(A) to us? Let the people go, so that they may worship the Lord their God. Do you not yet realize that Egypt is ruined?”^(B)

¹⁶ You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you.^(A) Do not look on them with pity^(B) and do not serve their gods,^(C) for that will be a snare^(D) to you.