16 And you must consume all the peoples whom Jehovah your God is giving to you.+ Your eye must not feel sorry for them;+ and you must not serve their gods,+ because that will be a snare to you.+

27 And Gidʹe·on proceeded to make it into an ephʹod+ and to exhibit it in his city Ophʹrah;+ and all Israel began to have immoral intercourse with it* there,+ so that it served as a snare to Gidʹe·on and to his household.+