9. Then he said, “If I find favor with you, Lord, please, Lord, come along in our company. This is indeed a stiff-necked people; yet pardon our wickedness and sins, and claim us as your own.”
10. The Lord said: Here is the covenant I will make. Before all your people I will perform marvels never before done in any nation anywhere on earth, so that all the people among whom you live may see the work of the Lord. Awe-inspiring are the deeds I will perform with you!
11. As for you, observe what I am commanding you today.See, I am about to drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.
12. Take care not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land that you are to enter; lest they become a snare among you.
13. Tear down their altars; smash their sacred stones, and cut down their asherahs.
14. You shall not bow down to any other god, for the Lord—“Jealous” his name—is a jealous God.
15. Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land; else, when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to them, one of them may invite you and you may partake of the sacrifice.