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.

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30 be careful that you are not ensnared [a]to follow them, after they are destroyed from your presence, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How do these nations serve their gods, that I also may do likewise?’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:30 Lit after them

13 know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to [a]drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a (A)snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 23:13 Or dispossess

Therefore I also said, ‘(A)I will not drive them out from you; but they will [a]become (B)like thorns in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”

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Footnotes

  1. Judges 2:3 Some ancient mss become adversaries to you and

36 And (A)served their idols,
(B)Which became a snare to them.

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