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Deuteronomy 20:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

so that they won’t teach you to do all the detestable acts they do for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.

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They must not remain in your land, or else they will make you sin against me. If you serve their gods, it will be a snare for you.’


Don’t participate in the fruitless  works of darkness, but instead expose them.


If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take note of that person; don’t associate with him, so that he may be ashamed.


Therefore, come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord; do not touch any unclean thing, and I will welcome you.   ,


Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company corrupts good morals.’


know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you,  a sharp stick  for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.


Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.


and constant disagreement among people whose minds are depraved and deprived of the truth, who imagine that godliness is a way to material gain.  ,


Therefore, I now say: I will not drive out these people before you.  They will be thorns  in your sides,  and their gods will be a trap for you.’


I will hold accountable whoever does not listen to my words that he speaks in my name.


Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.


You are not going to take possession of their land because of your righteousness or your integrity. Instead, the Lord your God will drive out these nations before you because of their wickedness, in order to fulfil the promise he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


You must completely destroy them #– #the Hethite, Amorite, Canaanite, Perizzite, Hivite, and Jebusite #– #as the Lord your God has commanded you,


‘When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it in order to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can get food from them. Do not cut them down. Are trees of the field human, to come under siege by you?


He rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed  and re-established the altars for Baal. He made an Asherah,  as King Ahab of Israel had done;  he also bowed in worship to all the stars in the sky  and served them.


You must not make a covenant  with them or their gods.


‘When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not imitate the detestable customs of those nations.





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