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.+

28 And I proceeded to bring them into the land+ that I had lifted up my hand [in an oath] to give them.+ When they got to see every exalted hill+ and every branchy tree, then they began sacrificing there their sacrifices+ and giving there their offensive offering, and presenting there their restful* odors+ and pouring out there their drink offerings.+

17 This, therefore, I say and bear witness to in [the] Lord, that YOU no longer go on walking just as the nations+ also walk in the unprofitableness of their minds,+