Catholic Public Domain Version
"Beware that you do not ever join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be your ruin. "
— Exodus 34:12, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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:”
“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: ”
“Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare in the midst of you:”
“Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it become a snare among you.”
“Beware thou never join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be thy ruin:”
“But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.”
“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:”
he said: “If I have found grace in your sight, O Lord, I beg you to walk with us, (for the people are stiff-necked) and take away our iniquities and our sin, and so possess us.”
The Lord responded: “I will enter into a pact in the sight of all. I will perform signs which have never been seen on earth, nor among any nation, so that this people, in whose midst you are, may discern the terrible work of the Lord that I will do.
Observe everything that I command you this day. I myself will drive out before your face the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
Beware that you do not ever join in friendship with the inhabitants of that land, which may be your ruin.
But destroy their altars, break their statues, and cut down their sacred groves.
Do not be willing to worship any strange god. The jealous Lord is his name. God is a rival.
Do not enter into a pact with the men of those regions, lest, when they will have fornicated with their gods and worshiped their idols, someone might call upon you to eat from what was immolated.