¹⁵ lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they ^(A)play the harlot with their gods and make sacrifice to their gods, and one of them ^(B)invites you and you ^(C)eat of his sacrifice,

¹⁶ and you take of ^(A)his daughters for your sons, and his daughters ^(B)play the harlot with their gods and make your sons play the harlot with their gods.

¹² Or else, if indeed you do ^(A)go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and ^(B)make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you,

² from the nations of whom the Lord had said to the children of Israel, ^(A)“You shall not intermarry with them, nor they with you. Surely they will turn away your hearts after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.

² For they have ^(A)taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the ^(B)holy seed is ^(C)mixed with the peoples of those lands. Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has been foremost in this ^[a]trespass.”