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cuts off the nations before you
Here "nations" refers to the people already living in Canaan. AT: "destroys the nations before you"
when you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them
AT: "when you take everything from them"
pay attention to yourself
AT: "be careful"
that you are not trapped into following them...trapped into investigating their gods, into asking
This means acting like the other people groups and worshiping their gods would lead the people of Israel to ruin like an animal caught in a hunter's trap. AT: "that no one causes you to act like the nations...causes you to ask about their gods, saying" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor and rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive)
after they are destroyed from before you
AT: "after Yahweh destroys them from before you"