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otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and asacrifice to their gods, and someone bmight invite you to eat of his sacrifice,
a
Exodus 22:20, Exodus 32:8
Exodus 22
20
"aHe who sacrifices to any god, other than to the Lord alone, shall be utterly destroyed.
Exodus 32
8
"They have quickly turned aside from the way which I commanded them. aThey have made for themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it and bhave sacrificed to it and said, 'cThis is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!'"