Exodus 23:32
New International Version
Do not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

New Living Translation
“Make no treaties with them or their gods.

English Standard Version
You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.

Berean Standard Bible
You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

King James Bible
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

New King James Version
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

New American Standard Bible
You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

NASB 1995
“You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

NASB 1977
“You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall cut no covenant with them or with their gods.

Amplified Bible
You shall not make a covenant with them or with their gods.

Christian Standard Bible
You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You must not make a covenant with them or their gods.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
You shall not cause a covenant to stand with them and with their idols.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt make no covenant with them and their gods.

Contemporary English Version
But you must not make any agreements with them or with their gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never make a treaty with them and their gods.

Good News Translation
Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.

International Standard Version
You are not to make a covenant with them or with their gods.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Literal Standard Version
You do not make a covenant with them and with their gods;

Majority Standard Bible
You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods.

New American Bible
You shall not make a covenant with them or their gods.

NET Bible
"You must make no covenant with them or with their gods.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.

New Heart English Bible
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

World English Bible
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Young's Literal Translation
thou dost not make a covenant with them, and with their gods;

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Context
God's Angel to Lead
31And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. 32You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. 33They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”…

Cross References
Exodus 23:13
Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

Exodus 23:24
You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces.

Exodus 34:12
Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land you are entering, lest they become a snare in your midst.

Deuteronomy 7:2
and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Joshua 9:7
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?"

Joshua 9:15
And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

Judges 2:2
and you are not to make a covenant with the people of this land, but you shall tear down their altars.' Yet you have not obeyed My voice. What is this you have done?


Treasury of Scripture

You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

shalt make

Exodus 34:12,15
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: …

Deuteronomy 7:2
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:

Joshua 9:14-23
And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD…

nor with

Numbers 25:1,2
And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab…

Deuteronomy 7:16
And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

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1. Of slander, false witness, and partiality
4. Of charitableness
6. Of justice in judgment
8. Of taking bribes
9. Of oppressing a stranger
10. Of the year of rest
12. Of the Sabbath
13. Of idolatry
14. Of the three feasts
18. Of the blood and the fat of the sacrifice
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(32) Thou shalt make no covenant with them--i.e., no treaty of peace; no arrangement by which one part of the land shall be thine and another theirs. (Comp. Exodus 34:12.)

Nor with their gods.--It was customary at the time for treaties between nations to contain an acknowledgment by each of the other's gods. (See the treaty between Rameses II. And the Hittites in the Records of the Past, vol. iv., pp. 27-32.) Thus a treaty with a nation was a sort of treaty with its gods.

Verses 32, 33. - FINAL WARNING AGAINST IDOLATRY. The "Book of the Covenant" ends as it began, with a solemn warning against idolatry. (See Exodus 20:23.) "Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with their gods." Thou shalt not even suffer them to dwell side by side with thee in the land, on peaceable terms, with their own laws and religion, lest thou be ensnared thereby, and led to worship their idols and join in their unhallowed rites (ver. 33). The after history of the people of Israel shows the need of the warning. From the exodus to the captivity, every idolatry with which they came into close contact proved a sore temptation to them. As the author of Kings observes of the Ten Tribes" - The children of Israel did secretly those things which were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities... And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree; and there they burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord carried away before them; and wrought wicked things to provoke the Lord to anger; for they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, "Ye shall not do this thing" (2 Kings 17:9-12). Verse 32. - Thou shalt make no covenant with them. See below, Exodus 34:12-15. According to the forms usual at the time, a treaty of peace would have contained an acknowledgment of the gods of either nation, and words in honour of them. (See the "Treaty of Rameses II. with the Hittites," given in the Records of the Past, vol. 4. pp. 27-32.) This would have been equivalent to "making a covenant with their gods."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You shall make
תִכְרֹ֥ת (ṯiḵ·rōṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

no
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

covenant
בְּרִֽית׃ (bə·rîṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

with them
לָהֶ֛ם (lā·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

or with their gods.
וְלֵאלֹֽהֵיהֶ֖ם (wə·lê·lō·hê·hem)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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