Exodus 34:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:32-33 : 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.
  • Deut 7:2 : 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:
  • Josh 23:12-13 : 12 For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you: 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.
  • Judg 2:2-3 : 2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done? 3 And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.
  • Judg 8:27 : 27 And Gideon made an ephod from them and put it up in his town Ophrah; and all Israel went after it there and were false to the Lord; and it became a cause of sin to Gideon and his house.
  • Ps 106:36 : 36 And they gave worship to images; which were a danger to them:
  • Deut 7:16 : 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 34:15-17
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    84%

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

    16 Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.

    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Deut 12:29-30
    2 verses
    83%

    29 When the people of the land where you are going have been cut off before you by the Lord your God, and you have taken their land and are living in it;

    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.

  • Deut 4:23
    81%

    23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Exod 23:32-33
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Josh 23:11-13
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    79%

    11 So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.

    12 For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

    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.

  • Deut 11:16-17
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    16 But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

    17 For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

  • Deut 29:12
    77%

    12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

  • Judg 2:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

    3 And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.

  • Deut 12:19
    76%

    19 See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.

  • Prov 22:25-26
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    76%

    25 For fear of learning his ways and making a net ready for your soul.

    26 Be not one of those who give their hands in an agreement, or of those who make themselves responsible for debts:

  • Deut 6:12
    76%

    12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.

  • Deut 8:11-12
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    76%

    11 Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

    12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

  • Exod 34:10-11
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    75%

    10 And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared.

    11 Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.

  • Deut 12:13
    75%

    13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

  • Deut 18:9
    74%

    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 20:18
    74%

    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • Deut 4:15
    73%

    15 So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

  • Josh 6:18
    73%

    18 And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.

  • Josh 23:7
    73%

    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:

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    73%

    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • Deut 13:7
    73%

    7 Gods of the peoples round about you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other;

  • Deut 12:4
    73%

    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 29:9
    73%

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

  • 2 Kgs 17:38
    73%

    38 And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

  • Deut 13:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11 And all Israel, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and no one will again do such evil as this among you.

    12 And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,

  • Lev 18:3
    73%

    3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

  • Deut 29:18
    73%

    18 So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;

  • Deut 2:4
    72%

    4 And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:

  • Deut 6:14
    72%

    14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Deut 30:17
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    17 But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

  • Deut 7:16
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    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 4:9
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    9 Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go from your memory and from your heart all the days of your life; but let the knowledge of them be given to your children and to your children's children;

  • Exod 13:11
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    11 And when the Lord takes you into the land of Canaan, as he made his oath to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

  • Deut 19:14
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    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.

  • 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 6:18
    71%

    18 And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Deut 28:15
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    15 But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you: