## translationWords

* [[en:tw:God]]
* [[en:tw:Yahweh]]
* [[en:tw:cutoff]]
* [[en:tw:cutoff|cut off]]
* [[en:tw:falsegod]]
* [[en:tw:falsegod|false god, god, goddess]]
* [[en:tw:nation]]
* [[en:tw:worship]]

## translationNotes

* **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: [[:en:ta:vol1:translate:figs_metaphor]] and [[:en:ta:vol2:translate:figs_activepassive]])
* **after they are destroyed from before you** - AT: "after Yahweh destroys them from before you"