⁷ Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear^(A) by them. You must not serve them or bow down^(B) to them.

¹⁶ And if they learn^(A) well the ways of my people and swear by my name, saying, ‘As surely as the Lord lives’^(B)—even as they once taught my people to swear by Baal^(C)—then they will be established among my people.^(D)