1 “When the Lord your God brings you into the land which you go to ^apossess, and has cast out many ^bnations before you, ^cthe Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than you,  ‡

3 ^aNor shall you make marriages with them. You shall not give your daughter to their son, nor take their daughter for your son.  ‡

4 For they will turn your sons away from following Me, to serve other gods; ^aso the anger of the Lord will be aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.  ‡