Context 23:33 They must not live in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare1 to you.”
[23:33]1tn The idea of the “snare” is to lure them to judgment; God is apparently warning about contact with the Canaanites, either in worship or in business. They were very syncretistic, and so it would be dangerous to settle among them.
