11. Be sure to obey what I command you today. I’m about to drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
12. Be careful that you don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you are going, or it will become a dangerous trap for you.
13. You must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stone pillars, and cut down their sacred poles.
14. You must not bow down to another god, because the Lord is passionate: the Lord’s name means "a passionate God."
15. Don’t make a covenant with those who live in the land. When they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they may invite you and you may end up eating some of the sacrifice.
16. Then you might go and choose their daughters as wives for your sons. And their daughters who prostitute themselves with their gods might lead your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.
17. Don’t make metal gods for yourself.
18. Observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread. You should eat unleavened bread for seven days, as I commanded you, at the set time in the month of Abib, because it was in the month of Abib that you came out of Egypt.
19. Every first offspring is mine. That includes all your male livestock, the oldest offspring of cows and sheep.
20. But a donkey’s oldest offspring you may ransom with a sheep. Or if you don’t ransom it, you must break its neck. You should ransom all of your oldest sons.No one should appear before me empty-handed.