8. Moses made haste and bowed to the ground and worshipped.
9. He said, “If now I have found favor in Your sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray, go among us, for we are a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”
10. Then He said: Indeed, I am going to make a covenant before all your people. I will do wonders such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation. And all the people among whom you live will see the work of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I will do with you.
11. Obey what I command you this day. Indeed, I am going to drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
12. Watch yourself so that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.
13. But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their Asherah poles
14. (for you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
15. lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they prostitute themselves with their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you to eat of his sacrifice.
16. And then you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters prostitute themselves after their gods. They will make your sons prostitute themselves after their gods.
17. You shall make no molded gods for yourselves.