KJV King James Version
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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Exodus 23:32
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.
WEB World English Bible
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
ASV American Standard Version
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;
Surrounding context — Exodus 23
29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.
31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the desert unto the river: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand; and thou shalt drive them out before thee.
32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
33 They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.
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Deuteronomy 7:2And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, [and] utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:Exodus 34:12Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:Exodus 34:15Lest 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;Psalm 106:35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.Deuteronomy 7:16And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that [will be] a snare unto thee.Numbers 25:1-2And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.2 Corinthians 6:15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?Joshua 9:14-23And the men took of their victuals, and asked not [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.2 Samuel 21:1-2Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, [It is] for Saul, and for [his] bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
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