12 ^dTake care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a ^esnare in your midst.

15 lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and when they ⁱwhore after their gods and sacrifice to their gods and you are ^jinvited, you eat of his sacrifice,

2 and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction.^{1 n}You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.