Exodus 34:15

So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

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In The King James Version

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;

In Context

14For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

16Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

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Cross References

Exodus 23:32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

Exodus 34:12But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

Leviticus 20:5Then my face will be turned against him and his family, and he and all those who do evil with him will be cut off from among their people.

Numbers 25:1Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:

Deuteronomy 7:2And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

Deuteronomy 31:18Truly, my face will be turned away from them in that day, because of all the evil they have done in going after other gods.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 34:11-18

A Caution Against Idolatry. ( b. c. 1491.) 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the Lord : for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee. 11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. 12 Take heed to… Read the whole commentary →

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