Exodus 34:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

פֶּן־תִּכְרֹ֥ת בְּרִ֖ית לְיוֹשֵׁ֣ב הָאָ֑רֶץ וְזָנ֣וּ ׀ אַחֲרֵ֣י אֱלֹֽהֵיהֶ֗ם וְזָבְחוּ֙ לֵאלֹ֣הֵיהֶ֔ם וְקָרָ֣א לְךָ֔ וְאָכַלְתָּ֖ מִזִּבְחֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

Lest tikrōt bərît with yôšēḇ hāʾāreṣ and they wəzānû after their ʾĕlōhêhem and wəzāḇḥû to their lēʾlōhêhem and wəqārāʾ to you and you wəʾākaltā from his mizziḇḥô.

Grammar Details

• *tikrōt*: imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you cut/make
• *bərît*: feminine singular noun - covenant
• *yôšēḇ*: active participle masculine singular construct - dweller of/inhabitant of
• *hāʾāreṣ*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the land
• *wəzānû*: waw consecutive + perfect 3rd plural - and they will prostitute themselves
• *ʾĕlōhêhem*: masculine plural noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their gods
• *wəzāḇḥû*: waw consecutive + perfect 3rd plural - and they will sacrifice
• *lēʾlōhêhem*: preposition + masculine plural noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - to their gods
• *wəqārāʾ*: waw consecutive + perfect 3rd masculine singular - and he will call/invite
• *wəʾākaltā*: waw consecutive + perfect 2nd masculine singular - and you will eat
• *mizziḇḥô*: preposition + masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - from his sacrifice

Word Meanings

• *tikrōt bərît*: make a covenant/cut a covenant
• *wəzānû*: prostitute themselves/be unfaithful/commit fornication
• *wəzāḇḥû*: sacrifice/offer/slaughter
• *wəqārāʾ*: call/invite/summon
• *mizziḇḥô*: from his sacrifice/from his offering

Referenced Verses

• Num 25:2 : 2 for they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods; and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods.
• 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is [anything] in the world, and that there is no {G2087} God but {G3361} one.
• Judg 2:17 : 17 And yet they hearkened not unto their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods, and bowed themselves down unto them: they turned aside quickly out of the way wherein their fathers walked, obeying the commandments of Jehovah; [but] they did not so.
• 1 Cor 10:27 : 27 If one of them that believe not biddeth you [to a feast], and ye are disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience' sake.
• Deut 31:16 : 16 And Jehovah said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and play the harlot after the strange gods of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
• 1 Cor 8:7 : 7 Howbeit there is not in all men that knowledge: but some, being used until now to the idol, eat as [of] a thing sacrificed to an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
• 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if a man see thee who hast knowledge sitting at meat in an idol's temple, will not his conscience, if he is weak, be emboldened to eat {G1519} things sacrificed to idols?
• Ps 106:28 : 28 They joined themselves also unto Baal-peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
• Jer 3:9 : 9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that the land was polluted, and she committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
• Exod 34:12 : 12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:
• Lev 17:7 : 7 And they shall no more sacrifice their sacrifices unto the he-goats, after which they play the harlot. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.
• Lev 20:5-6 : 5 then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all that play the harlot after him, to play the harlot with Molech, from among their people. 6 And the soul that turneth unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto the wizards, to play the harlot after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
• Num 15:39 : 39 and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;
• Deut 7:2 : 2 and when Jehovah thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;
• Exod 23:32 : 32 Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
• Exod 34:10 : 10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.
• Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel at their stock, and their staff declareth unto them; for the spirit of whoredom hath caused them to err, and they have played the harlot, [departing] from under their God.
• Hos 9:1 : 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, [departing] from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.
• 1 Cor 10:20-21 : 20 But [I say], that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have communion with demons. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of demons: ye cannot partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons.
• Rev 2:20 : 20 But I have [this] against thee, that thou sufferest the woman Jezebel, who calleth herself a prophetess; and she teacheth and seduceth my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.
• Rev 17:1-5 : 1 And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven bowls, and spake with me, saying, {G3427} Come hither, I will show thee the judgment of the great harlot that sitteth upon many waters; 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and they that dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her fornication. 3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness: and I saw a woman sitting upon a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations, even the unclean things of her fornication, 5 and upon her forehead a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• Ezra 6:9 : 9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for burnt-offerings to the God of heaven; [also] wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the word of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;
• Ps 73:27 : 27 For, lo, they that are far from thee shall perish: Thou hast destroyed all them that play the harlot, [departing] from thee.