Exodus 23:32

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“You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.”

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BSBPD

“You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 23:32 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 34:12Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.
  2. Exodus 34:15Do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.
  3. Numbers 25:1While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab,
  4. Deuteronomy 7:1When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
  5. Deuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
  6. Deuteronomy 7:16You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
  7. Deuteronomy 20:18so that they cannot teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and so cause you to sin against the LORD your God.
  8. Deuteronomy 31:5The LORD will deliver them over to you, and you must do to them exactly as I have commanded you.
  9. Joshua 9:7But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
  10. Joshua 9:14Then the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD.
  11. Joshua 10:40So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
  12. 2 Samuel 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
  13. Psalms 106:35but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.
  14. 2 Corinthians 6:15What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever?

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