OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 12

Exodus 34:12

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Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

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Exodus 34:9–15

9

He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

10

He said, “Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do marvels, such as have not been worked in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD; for it is an awesome thing that I do with you.

11

Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I will drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

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Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

13

but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;

14

for you shall worship no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

15

“Don’t make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

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