^{16 Ref} `Only, of the cities of these peoples which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee `for' an inheritance, thou dost not keep alive any breathing;

^{17 Ref} for thou dost certainly devote the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee,

^{18 Ref} so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.