8. Then Moses quickly bowed his head down to the earth and worshipped.
9. He said, “If now I have found grace in Your eyes, my Lord, let my Lord please go within our midst, even though this is a stiff-necked people. Pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for Your own inheritance.”
10. Then He said, “I am cutting a covenant. Before all your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation. All the people you are among will see the work of Adonai—for what I am going to do with you will be awesome!
11. Obey what I am commanding you today. Behold, I am going to drive out the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites before you.
12. Watch yourself, and make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, or they will become a snare among you.
13. Instead you must break down their altars, smash their pillars and cut down their Asherah poles.
14. For you are to bow down to no other god, because Adonai is jealous for His Name—He is a jealous God.