Exodus 34:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice to their gods, and one of them invites you, and you eat 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

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you, and you will eat from their sacrifices.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  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;

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  lest thou make{H3772} a covenant{H1285} with the inhabitants{H3427} of the land,{H776} and they play the harlot{H2181} after{H310} their gods,{H430} and sacrifice{H2076} unto their gods,{H430} and one call{H7121} thee and thou eat{H398} of his sacrifice;{H2077}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Lest thou make{H3772}{(H8799)} a covenant{H1285} with the inhabitants{H3427}{(H8802)} of the land{H776}, and they go a whoring{H2181}{(H8804)} after{H310} their gods{H430}, and do sacrifice{H2076}{(H8804)} unto their gods{H430}, and one call{H7121}{(H8804)} thee, and thou eat{H398}{(H8804)} of his sacrifice{H2077};

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  lest yf thou make any agreament with the inhabiters of the lande, when they go a whoorynge after their goddes ad do sacrifyce vnto their goddes, they call the and thou eate of their sacrifyce:

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  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,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Lest thou make a compact with the inhabitantes of the lande, and when they goe a whoring after their gods, and doe sacrifice vnto their gods, some man call thee, & thou eate of his sacrifice:

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Lest if thou make any agreement with the inhabitours of the lande, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice vnto their gods: they call thee, and thou eate of theyr sacrifice.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  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;

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land, and they have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have sacrificed to their gods, and `one' hath called to thee, and thou hast eaten of his sacrifice,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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,

• World English Bible (2000)

  "Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

Referenced Verses

• Num 25:2 : 2 And they called the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people ate and bowed down to their gods.
• 1 Cor 8:4 : 4 Therefore, concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no other God but one.
• Judg 2:17 : 17 Yet they would not listen to their judges, but they went whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves to them: they quickly turned out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the LORD; they did not do so.
• 1 Cor 10:27 : 27 If any of those who do not believe invite you to a meal, and you wish to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no question for conscience' sake.
• Deut 31:16 : 16 And the LORD said to Moses, Behold, you shall sleep with your fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land, where 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 However, not everyone has this knowledge; for some, with consciousness of the idol, until now eat it as a thing offered to an idol, and their weak conscience is defiled.
• 1 Cor 8:10 : 10 For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will not the conscience of him who is weak be emboldened to eat things offered to idols?
• Ps 106:28 : 28 They joined themselves also to Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
• Jer 3:9 : 9 And it came to pass through the frivolity of her whoredom, that she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.
• Exod 34:12 : 12 Take heed to yourself, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare in your midst.
• Lev 17:7 : 7 And they shall no longer offer their sacrifices to demons, after whom they have gone whoring. This shall be a statute forever for 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 whoring after him, to commit whoredom with Molech, from among their people. 6 And the soul that turns after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go whoring after them, I will set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
• Num 15:39 : 39 And it shall be for you a fringe, that you may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that you do not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, in which you used to go astray:
• Deut 7:2 : 2 And when the LORD your God shall deliver them before you; you shall strike them, and utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them:
• Exod 23:32 : 32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
• Exod 34:10 : 10 And he said, "Behold, I make a covenant: before all your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among whom you are shall see the work of the LORD, for it is an awesome thing that I will do with you."
• Hos 4:12 : 12 My people ask counsel from their wooden idols, and their staff declares to them, for the spirit of harlotry has caused them to err, and they have gone astray under their God.
• Hos 9:1 : 1 Do not rejoice, O Israel, like other peoples, for you have gone astray from your God; you have loved a reward upon every threshing floor.
• 1 Cor 10:20-21 : 20 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I do not want you to have fellowship with demons. 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons: you cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons.
• Rev 2:20 : 20 Nevertheless I have a few things against you, because you allow that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess, to teach and seduce my servants to commit sexual immorality and eat things sacrificed to idols.
• Rev 17:1-5 : 1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, Come here; I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were 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 sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 And the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication: 5 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
• Ezra 6:9 : 9 And whatever they need—young bulls, rams, and lambs for the burnt offerings of the God of heaven, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests who are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail:
• Ps 73:27 : 27 For indeed, those who are far from You shall perish; You have destroyed all those who are unfaithful to You.