11. Obey the things I command you today, and I will force your enemies to leave your land. I will force out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites ahead of you.
12. Be careful. Don’t make any agreement with the people who live in the land where you are going. It will bring you trouble.
13. But destroy their altars. Break their stone pillars. Cut down their Asherah idols.
14. Don’t worship any other god. This is because I, the Lord, the Jealous One, am a jealous God.
15. “Be careful. Don’t make any agreements with the people who live in that land. They will worship their false gods. And they will invite you to join them. Then you will join them, and you will eat their sacrifices.
16. You might choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons. Those daughters worship false gods. They might lead your sons to do the same thing.
17. “Do not make gods of melted metal.
18. “Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast as I commanded you. Do this during the month I have chosen, the month of Abib. This is because in that month you came out of Egypt.
19. “Every firstborn cow or sheep that is born to each animal belongs to me.
20. You may buy back a donkey by paying for it with a lamb. But if you don’t want to buy back a donkey, you must break its neck. You must buy back all your firstborn sons.“No one is to come before me without a gift.
21. “You must work for six days. But on the seventh day you must rest. You must do this even during the planting season and harvest season.