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15 `Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and [one] hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,
In Exodus 3:8, these were people in idolatry that still maintained something of good and truth. (Arcana Coelestia 6860)