Exodus 34:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 7:3-4 : 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. 4 For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
  • 1 Kgs 11:2-4 : 2 The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love. 3 He had seven hundred wives, daughters of kings, and three hundred other wives; and through his wives his heart was turned away. 4 For it came about that when Solomon was old, his heart was turned away to other gods by his wives; and his heart was no longer true to the Lord his God as the heart of his father David had been.
  • Ezra 9:2 : 2 For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
  • Neh 13:25 : 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 Cor 6:14-17 : 14 Do not keep company with those who have not faith: for what is there in common between righteousness and evil, or between light and dark? 15 And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not? 16 And what agreement has the house of God with images? for we are a house of the living God; even as God has said, I will be living among them, and walking with them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people. 17 For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,
  • Num 25:1-2 : 1 Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab: 2 For they sent for the people to be present at the offerings made to their gods; and the people took part in their feasts and gave honour to their gods.
  • Neh 13:23 : 23 And in those days I saw the Jews who were married to women of Ashdod and Ammon and Moab:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 34:15
    86%

    15So 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,

  • Judg 3:6
    81%

    6And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods.

  • Deut 7:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

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

    4For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.

  • Lev 19:29
    79%

    29Do not make your daughter common by letting her become a loose woman, for fear that the land may become full of shame.

  • Exod 34:17
    79%

    17Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • Jer 16:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.

    3For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:

  • Deut 12:30-31
    2 verses
    77%

    30After 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.

    31Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Ezek 16:20
    77%

    20And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,

  • Josh 23:12
    76%

    12For 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:

  • Ezra 9:12
    76%

    12So 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.

  • Hos 4:13-14
    2 verses
    76%

    13They make offerings on the tops of mountains, burning perfumes in high places, under trees of every sort, because their shade is good: and so your daughters are given up to loose ways and your brides are false to their husbands.

    14I will not give punishment to your daughters or your brides for their evil behaviour; for they make themselves separate with loose women, and make offerings with those who are used for sex purposes in the worship of the gods: the people who have no wisdom will be sent away.

  • Ezek 16:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

    17And you took the fair jewels, my silver and gold which I had given to you, and made for yourself male images, acting like a loose woman with them;

  • Deut 13:6
    75%

    6If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your heart, or the friend who is as dear to you as your life, working on you secretly says to you, Let us go and give worship to other gods, strange to you and to your fathers;

  • Lev 18:17-18
    2 verses
    75%

    17You may not take as wife a woman and her daughter, or her son's daughter or her daughter's daughter, for they are of one family: it is an act of shame.

    18And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.

  • Ezek 16:26
    75%

    26And you went with the Egyptians, your neighbours, great of flesh; increasing your loose ways, moving me to wrath.

  • Ezek 23:30
    74%

    30They will do these things to you because you have been untrue to me, and have gone after the nations, and have become unclean with their images.

  • Ezek 16:36
    74%

    36This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;

  • Ezek 23:37
    74%

    37For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.

  • Neh 10:30
    74%

    30And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;

  • Ezek 16:32
    74%

    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Gen 34:9
    74%

    9And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.

  • Deut 20:18
    74%

    18So 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 23:17
    74%

    17No daughter of Israel is to let herself be used as a loose woman for a strange god, and no son of Israel is to give himself to a man.

  • Deut 4:25
    74%

    25If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Deut 6:14
    74%

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

  • Deut 4:16
    74%

    16So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

  • Gen 34:16
    74%

    16Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.

  • 1 Kgs 11:2
    74%

    2The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.

  • Deut 18:9
    74%

    9When 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.

  • Jer 29:6
    73%

    6Take wives and have sons and daughters, and take wives for your sons, and give your daughters to husbands, so that they may have sons and daughters; and be increased in number there and do not become less.

  • Exod 23:32
    73%

    32Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Deut 31:16
    73%

    16And the Lord said to Moses, Now you are going to rest with your fathers; and this people will be false to me, uniting themselves to the strange gods of the land where they are going; they will be turned away from me and will not keep the agreement I have made with them.

  • Lev 18:10
    73%

    10You may not have sex relations with your son's daughter or your daughter's daughter, for they are part of yourself;

  • Ps 106:39
    73%

    39So they became unclean through their works, going after their evil desires.

  • Lev 18:15
    73%

    15Or with your daughter-in-law, for she is your son's wife, and you may not take her.

  • Neh 13:25
    73%

    25And 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.

  • Ezek 16:45
    73%

    45You are the daughter of your mother whose soul is turned in disgust from her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters who were turned in disgust from their husbands and their children: your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

  • 2 Kgs 17:17
    73%

    17And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

  • Ezek 22:11
    73%

    11And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.

  • Exod 34:12
    73%

    12But 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.

  • Ps 106:37
    73%

    37They even made offerings of their sons and their daughters to evil spirits,

  • Isa 57:3
    73%

    3But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.

  • Ezek 20:30
    73%

    30For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: Are you making yourselves unclean as your fathers did? are you being untrue to me by going after their disgusting works?

  • Mal 2:11
    72%

    11Judah has been acting falsely, and a disgusting thing has been done in Jerusalem; for Judah has made unclean the holy place of the Lord which is dear to him, and has taken as his wife the daughter of a strange god.