New American Standard Bible 2020

Exodus 34:12-16

12 1Be careful that you do not make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land into which you are going, or it will become a snare in your midst.

13 2But rather, you are to tear down their altars and smash their memorial stones, and cut down their 3 4Asherim

14--for 5you shall not worship any other god, because 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 prostitute themselves with their gods and 6sacrifice to their gods, and someone 7might invite you 8to eat of his sacrifice,

16and 9you might take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters might prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons also to prostitute themselves with their gods.

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Notes

1. Exodus 34:12 Ex 23:32, 33 ↩
2. Exodus 34:13 Ex 23:24; Deut 12:3 ↩
3. Exodus 34:13 I.e., wooden symbols of a female deity (Asherah) ↩
4. Exodus 34:13 Deut 16:21; Judg 6:25, 26; 2 Kin 18:4; 2 Chr 34:3f ↩
5. Exodus 34:14 Ex 20:3, 5; Deut 4:24 ↩
6. Exodus 34:15 Ex 22:20; 32:8 ↩
7. Exodus 34:15 Num 25:1, 2; Deut 32:37, 38 ↩
8. Exodus 34:15 Lit and you eat ↩
9. Exodus 34:16 Deut 7:3; Josh 23:12, 13; 1 Kin 11:1-4 ↩

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