12 (A)Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. 13 (B)But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their (a)(C)Asherim 14 —for (D)you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

Footnotes:

a. Exodus 34:13: ['I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity']

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