> observe thou that which i command thee this day: behold, i drive out before thee the amorite, and the canaanite, and the hittite, and the perizzite, and the hivite, and the jebusite. > but if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. they will give you trouble in all the lands you inhabit. > but ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves: > for thou shalt worship no other god: for the lord, whose name is jealous, is a jealous god: > lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; > and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods. > but shalt kill them with the edge of the sword, to wit, the hethite, and the amorrhite, and the canaanite, the pherezite, and the hevite, and the jebusite, as the lord thy god hath commanded thee: > because you did not obey the lord or carry out his fierce wrath against the amalekites, the lord has done this to you today.
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