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# pay attention to yourself
"be careful"
# that you are not trapped into following them ... trapped into investigating their gods, into asking
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"that you do not act like them ... that you do try to learn about their gods, asking"
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# not trapped into following them
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The Israelites worshiping idols as the people groups of Canaan worship idols is spoken of as if the Israelites were following behind the other people groups.
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# after they are destroyed from before you
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"after Yahweh destroys them before you"
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# into asking, 'How do these nations worship their gods? I will do the same.'
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"into asking about how those people groups worship their gods so that you can do the same."