Exodus 34:16

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

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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 you 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 you, and you eat of his sacrifice;

17You shall make you no molten gods.

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Cross References

Leviticus 21:15Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the LORD do sanctify him.

Deuteronomy 7:3Neither shall you make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give unto his son, nor his daughter shall you take unto your son.

Joshua 23:12Else if all of you do in any way go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

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

1 Kings 11:2Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, All of you shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

2 Chronicles 21:11Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

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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