Exodus 34:15

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do 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 And 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 As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.
• Judg 2:17 : 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so.
• 1 Cor 10:27 : 27 {G1161} If any of them that believe not bid you to a feast, and ye be disposed to go; whatsoever is set before you, eat, asking no question for conscience sake.
• Deut 31:16 : 16 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers 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 every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.
• 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols;
• Ps 106:28 : 28 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
• Jer 3:9 : 9 And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and 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 offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. 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 go a whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. 6 And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring 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 the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
• Deut 7:2 : 2 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew 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 done in all the earth, nor in any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
• Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
• Hos 9:1 : 1 Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.
• 1 Cor 10:20-21 : 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. 21 Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.
• Rev 2:20 : 20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
• Rev 17:1-5 : 1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• Ezra 6:9 : 9 And that which they have need of, both young bullocks, and rams, and lambs, for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests which 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{H8799)}: thou hast destroyed{H8689)} all them that go a whoring{H8802)} from thee.