Deuteronomy 23:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 9:12 : 12 So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.
  • Neh 13:23-25 : 23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab: 24 And their children were talking half in the language of Ashdod; they had no knowledge of the Jews' language, but made use of the language of the two peoples. 25 And I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair; and I made them take an oath by God, saying, You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
  • 2 Sam 8:2 : 2 And he overcame the Moabites, and he had them measured with a line when they were stretched out on the earth; marking out two lines for death and one full line for life. So the Moabites became servants to David and gave him offerings.
  • 2 Sam 12:31 : 31 And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.

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  • Exod 23:32-33
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    76%

    32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

    33 Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

  • Ezra 9:12
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    12 So now do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or do anything for their peace or well-being for ever; so that you may be strong, living on the good of the land, and handing it on to your children for a heritage for ever.

  • Deut 23:3-5
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    75%

    3 No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:

    4 Because they gave you no bread or water on your way, when you came out of Egypt: and they got Balaam, the son of Peor, from Pethor in Aram-naharaim to put curses on you.

    5 But the Lord your God would not give ear to Balaam, but let the curse be changed into a blessing to you, because of his love for you.

  • Num 23:25
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    25 Then Balak said to Balaam, If you will not put a curse on them, at all events do not give them a blessing.

  • Num 22:12
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    12 And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.

  • Deut 23:7
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    7 But have no hate for an Edomite, because he is your brother, or for an Egyptian, for you were living in his land.

  • Prov 24:1
    72%

    1 Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

  • Deut 7:16
    71%

    16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Deut 7:2-3
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    2 And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:

    3 Do not take wives or husbands from among them; do not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons.

  • Josh 23:7
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    7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Deut 15:6
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    6 For the Lord your God will give you his blessing as he has said: you will let other nations have the use of your money, but you will not make use of theirs; you will be rulers over a number of nations, but they will not be your rulers.

  • Isa 14:20
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    20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.

  • Exod 23:24
    71%

    24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

  • Exod 23:26
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    26 All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.

  • Jer 25:6
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    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Deut 12:4
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    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • 1 Sam 2:32
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    32 And never again will there be an old man in your family.

  • Deut 12:30
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    30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

  • Obad 1:12-13
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    12 Do not see with pleasure your brother's evil day, the day of his fate, and do not be glad over the children of Judah on the day of their destruction, or make wide your mouth on the day of trouble.

    13 Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall.

  • Ps 28:3
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    3 Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • Deut 13:8
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    8 Do not be guided by him or give attention to him; have no pity on him or mercy, and give him no cover;

  • Deut 12:25
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    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 6:14
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    14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Josh 23:13
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    13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Prov 3:31
    70%

    31 Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.

  • Neh 13:1
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    1 On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;

  • Prov 3:29
    70%

    29 Do not make evil designs against your neighbour, when he is living with you without fear.

  • Deut 7:25-26
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    25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

    26 And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

  • Deut 4:40
    70%

    40 Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, and that your lives may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for ever.

  • Deut 13:17
    70%

    17 Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:

  • Deut 29:9
    69%

    9 So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

  • Num 23:8
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    8 How may I put curses on him who is not cursed by God? how may I be angry with him with whom the Lord is not angry?

  • Deut 19:14
    69%

    14 Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Ps 81:9
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    9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Lev 23:31
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    31 You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.

  • Deut 28:65
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    65 And even among these nations there will be no peace for you, and no rest for your feet: but the Lord will give you there a shaking heart and wasting eyes and weariness of soul:

  • Jer 14:11
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    11 And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.

  • Deut 18:9
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    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Deut 18:14
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    14 For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

  • Deut 28:50
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    50 A hard-faced nation, who will have no respect for the old or mercy for the young:

  • Num 23:11
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    11 Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.

  • Ps 122:6
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    6 O make prayers for the peace of Jerusalem; may they whose love is given to you do well.

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    18 For fear that the Lord may see it, and it may be evil in his eyes, and his wrath may be turned away from him.

  • Isa 48:22
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    22 There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.