Exodus 23:32

Coverdale Bible (1535)

Thou shalt make no couenaunt wt them ner with their goddes,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹֽא־תִכְרֹ֥ת לָהֶ֛ם וְלֵאלֹֽהֵיהֶ֖ם בְּרִֽית׃

Transliteration

Not-tikrōt to-them and-to-ʾĕlōhêhem bĕrît

Grammar Details

• *tikrōt*: qal imperfect 2nd person masculine singular - cut/make
• *ʾĕlōhêhem*: noun masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their gods
• *bĕrît*: noun feminine singular - covenant/agreement

Word Meanings

• *tikrōt bĕrît*: make a covenant/cut an agreement/establish a treaty
• *ʾĕlōhêhem*: their gods/deities

Referenced Verses

• Deut 7:2 : 2 and whan the LORDE thy God delyuereth the before ye, that thou mayest smyte them, thou shalt vtterly destroye them, so that thou make no couenaunt with them, nor shewe them fauoure, and shalt make no mariages with them:
• Exod 34:12 : 12 Bewarre, that thou make no couenaunt with the indwellers of the lande yt thou commest in to, lest they be cause of yi ruyne in the myddest of the:
• Exod 34:15 : 15 lest (yf thou make any agrement with the indwellers of the londe, and whan they go a whoringe after their goddes, and do sacrifice vnto their goddes) they call ye, and thou eate of their sacrifice,
• Num 25:1-2 : 1 And Israel dwelt in Sittim, and the people beganne to commytte whordome with the doughters of the Moabites, 2 which called the people vnto the sacrifice of their goddes. And the people ate and worshipped their goddes,
• Deut 7:16 : 16 Thou shalt brynge to naught all the nacions, which the LORDE thy God shal delyuer the. Thine eye shall not spare them, and their goddes shalt thou not serue, for that shalbe thy decaye.
• Josh 9:14-23 : 14 Then the captaynes toke their vytayles, and axed not the mouth of the LORDE. 15 And Iosua made peace with them, and set vp a couenaunt with them, that they shulde be saued alyue, and the rulers of the congregacion sware vnto them. 16 But thre dayes after that they had made a couenaunt with them, they herde, that they were their neghbours, and dwelt amonge them: 17 For as the children of Israel wente forth on their iourney, they came on the thirde daye vnto their cities, which are called Gibeon, Caphira, Beeroth, and Cirath Iearim, 18 and smote the not, because that the rulers of the congregacisn had sworne vnto them by the name of the LORDE the God of Israel. But whan all the congregacion murmured agaynst the rulers, 19 all the rulers sayde vnto the whole congregacion: We haue sworne vnto them by the LORDE the God of Israel, therfore maye we not touch them. 20 But this wil we do vnto them: Let them lyue, that there come no wrath vpon vs, because of the ooth that we haue made vnto them. 21 And the rulers sayde vnto them: Let them lyue, that they maye be hewers of wodd and bearers of water for the whole congregacion, as the rulers haue sayde vnto them. 22 Then Iosua called them, and commened with them, and sayde: Wherfore haue ye disceaued vs, and sayde, that ye were farre from vs, where as ye dwell amonge vs? 23 Therfore shall ye be cursed, so that of you there shall not ceasse seruauntes to hew wodd and to beare water for the house of my God.
• 2 Sam 21:1-2 : 1 There was a derth also in Dauids tyme thre yeares together. And Dauid soughte the face of ye LORDE. And the LORDE sayde: Because of Saul and because of that bloudy housholde yt he slewe the Gibeonites. 2 Then the kynge caused for to call the Gibeonites, and spake vnto them. (As for the Gibeonites, they were not of ye children of Israel, but a remnaunt of the Amorites: howbeit the children of Israel had sworne vnto the, and Saul soughte for to smyte them in his gelousy, for the childre of Israel and Iuda.)
• Ps 106:35 : 35 But were mengled amonge the Heithen, and lerned their workes.
• 2 Cor 6:15 : 15 How agreeth Christ with Belial? Or what parte hath the beleuer with the infydele?