Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,(A) because they will turn your sons away from Me to worship other gods. Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you. Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles,(B) and burn up their carved images.

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