Exodus 23:32
Good News Translation
Do not make any agreement with them or with their gods.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.

shalt make

Exodus 34:12,15 Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin: . . .

Deuteronomy 7:2 And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

Joshua 9:14-23 They took therefore of their victuals, and consulted not the mouth of the Lord. . . .

2 Samuel 21:1,2 And there was a famine in the days of David for three years successively: and David consulted the oracle of the Lord. And the Lord said: It is for Saul, and his bloody house, because he slow the Gabaonites. . . .

Psalm 106:35 And they were mingled among the heathens, and learned their works:

2 Corinthians 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath the faithful with the unbeliever?

nor with

Numbers 25:1,2 And Israel at that time abode in Settim, and the people committed fornication with the daughters of Moab, . . .

Deuteronomy 7:16 Thou shalt consume all the people, which the Lord thy God will deliver to thee. Thy eye shall not spare them, neither shalt thou serve their gods, lest they be thy ruin.

Context
God's Angel to Lead
31And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea to the sea of the Palestines, and from the desert to the river: I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hands, and will drive them out from before you. 32Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.33Let them not dwell in thy land, lest perhaps they make thee sin against me, if thou serve their gods; which, undoubtedly, will be a scandal to thee.…
Cross References
Exodus 23:13
Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth.

Exodus 23:24
Thou shalt not adore their gods, nor serve them. Thou shalt not do their works, but shalt destroy them, and break their statues.

Exodus 34:12
Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:

Deuteronomy 7:2
And the Lord thy God shall have delivered them to thee, thou shalt utterly destroy them. Thou shalt make no league with them, nor shew mercy to them:

Joshua 9:7
Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.

Joshua 9:15
And Joshua made peace with them, and entering into a league, promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the multitude swore to them.

Judges 2:2
On condition that you should not make a league with the inhabitants of this land, but should throw down their altars: and you would not hear my voice: why have you done this?

Exodus 23:31
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