Exodus 34:16

and you should take of their daughters to your sons, and you should give of your daughters to their sons; and your daughters should go a whoring after their gods, and your sons should go a whoring after their gods.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

In Context

15lest at any time you make a covenant with the dwellers on the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and they call you, and you should eat of their feasts,

17And you shall not make to yourself molten gods.

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:15And he shall not profane his seed among his people: I am the Lord that sanctifies him.

Deuteronomy 7:3neither shall you⌃ contract marriages with them: you shall not give your daughter to his son, and you shall not take his daughter to your son.

Joshua 23:12For if you⌃ shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you,

Judges 3:6And they took their daughters for wives to themselves, and they gave their daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

1 Kings 11:2-3 of the nations concerning whom the Lord forbade the children of Israel, saying, You⌃ shall not go in to them, and they shall not come in to you, lest they turn away your hearts after their idols: Solomon clave to these in love.

2 Chronicles 21:11For he built high places in the cities of Juda, and caused the dwellers in Jerusalem to go a-whoring, and led Juda astray.

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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