and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Exodus 34:16 in context
Exodus 34:13–19
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but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherah poles;
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for you shall worship no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
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“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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and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
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“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
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“You shall keep the feast of unleavened bread. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, as I commanded you, at the time appointed in the month Abib; for in the month Abib you came out of Egypt.
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“All that opens the womb is mine; and all your livestock that is male, the firstborn of cow and sheep.
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