Exodus 34:11-16

Israel Warned of the Idolatry of Canaan

¹¹ 'Observe for thyself that which I am commanding thee to-day: lo, I am casting out from before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite; ¹² take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst; ¹³ for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down; ¹⁴ for ye do not bow yourselves to another god—for Jehovah, whose name 'is' Zealous, is a zealous God. ¹⁵ 'Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and 'one' hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice, ¹⁶ and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;