Deuteronomy 7:1-5
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7“aWhen Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you are entering to possess it, and He clears away many nations before you, the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, bseven nations more numerous and stronger than you, 2and when Yahweh your God gives them over before you and you strike them down, athen you shall devote them to destruction. bYou shall cut no covenant with them cand show no favor to them. 3“Furthermore, ayou shall not intermarry with them; you shall not give your 1daughters to 2their sons, nor shall you take 3their daughters for your 4sons. 4“For 1they will turn your 2sons away from 3following Me, and they will serve other gods; then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and aHe will quickly destroy you. 5“But thus you shall do to them: ayou shall tear down their altars and shatter their sacred pillars and cut their 1Asherim in pieces and burn their graven images with fire.