New American Standard Bible 1995

Exodus 34:10-16

10Then 1God said, “Behold, 2I am going to make a covenant. Before all your people 3I will perform miracles which have not been 4produced in all the earth nor among any of the nations; and all the people 5among whom you live will see the working of the Lord, for it is a fearful thing that I am going to perform with you.

11“6Be sure to observe what I am commanding you this day: behold, 7I am going to drive out the Amorite before you, and the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. 12 8Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst. 13 9But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars and cut down their 10 11Asherim 14--for 12you shall not worship any other god, for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God-- 15otherwise you might make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they would play the harlot with their gods and 13sacrifice to their gods, and someone 14might invite you 15to eat of his sacrifice, 16and 16you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might play the harlot with their gods and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

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Notes

1. Exodus 34:10 Lit He ↩
2. Exodus 34:10 Ex 34:27, 28; Deut 5:2 ↩
3. Exodus 34:10 Deut 4:32; Ps 72:18; 136:4 ↩
4. Exodus 34:10 Lit created ↩
5. Exodus 34:10 Lit in whose midst you are ↩
6. Exodus 34:11 Lit Observe for yourself ↩
7. Exodus 34:11 Ex 33:2 ↩
8. Exodus 34:12 Ex 23:32, 33 ↩
9. Exodus 34:13 Ex 23:24; Deut 12:3 ↩
10. Exodus 34:13 I.e. wooden symbols of a female deity ↩
11. Exodus 34:13 Deut 16:21; Judg 6:25, 26; 2 Kin 18:4; 2 Chr 34:3f ↩
12. Exodus 34:14 Ex 20:3, 5; Deut 4:24 ↩
13. Exodus 34:15 Ex 22:20; 32:8 ↩
14. Exodus 34:15 Num 25:1, 2; Deut 32:37, 38 ↩
15. Exodus 34:15 Lit and you eat ↩
16. Exodus 34:16 Deut 7:3; Josh 23:12, 13; 1 Kin 11:1-4 ↩

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