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 snare to you.”

Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.

Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long will this man be a menace to us? Release the people so that they may serve the Lord their God. Do you not know that Egypt is destroyed?”