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Exodus 34:12

WEB

12Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;

KJV

12Take 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:

BSB

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

FBV

12Make sure you don't agree to a peace treaty[+] with the people living in the land where you are going. Otherwise they will become a trap for you.

Related Resources

Book of Exodus Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject
God’s Kingdom Is Not of This World (2 Corinthians 6:14-7:1) - Grace to You

Extra References

Exodus 23:32-33

32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods. 33They shall not dwell in your land, lest they make you sin against me, for if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”

Joshua 23:12-13

12“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you; 13know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

Deuteronomy 7:2

2and when the LORD your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them, then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them.

Judges 2:2-3

2You shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land. You shall break down their altars.’ But you have not listened to my voice. Why have you done this? 3Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be in your sides, and their gods will be a snare to you.’”

Deuteronomy 7:16

16You shall consume all the peoples whom the LORD your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them. You shall not serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.

Psalms 106:36

36They served their idols, which became a snare to them.

Judges 8:27

27Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.