Exodus 34:16 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹⁶ Then you will take some of their daughters as brides for your sons. Their daughters will prostitute themselves with their gods and cause your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And you take of their daughters for your sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods and make your sons play the harlot after their gods.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Then you might go and choose their daughters as wives for your sons. And their daughters who prostitute themselves with their gods might lead your sons to prostitute themselves with their gods.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Neither shall you take a wife for your son from their daughters, lest, after they themselves have fornicated, they may cause your sons also to fornicate with their gods.

Exodus 34:16 Cross References

Genesis 24:3

and I will have you swear by the Lord, God of heaven and God of earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I live,

1 Kings 11:1

King Solomon loved many foreign women in addition to Pharaoh’s daughter:  Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women

1 Kings 21:25

Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.

2 Chronicles 21:11

Jehoram also built high places  in the hills  of Judah, and he caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves,  and he led Judah astray.

Ezra 9:12

So do not give your daughters to their sons in marriage or take their daughters for your sons.  Never pursue their welfare or prosperity,  so that you will be strong, eat the good things of the land, and leave it as an inheritance to your sons for ever.’

Ezra 9:2

Indeed, the Israelite men  have taken some of their daughters as wives for themselves and their sons, so that the holy seed  has become mixed with the surrounding peoples.  The leaders  and officials have taken the lead in this unfaithfulness! ’

Nehemiah 10:30

We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons.

Nehemiah 10:31

When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day.  We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year  and will cancel every debt.

Nehemiah 13:23

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

Nehemiah 13:25

I rebuked them, cursed them, beat some of their men, and pulled out their hair.  I forced them to take an oath  before God and said, ‘You must not give your daughters in marriage to their sons or take their daughters as wives for your sons or yourselves!

Hosea 1:2

When the Lord first spoke to Hosea, he said this to him: Go and marry a woman of promiscuity, and have children of promiscuity, for the land is committing blatant acts of promiscuity by abandoning the  Lord.

Leviticus 21:15

so that he does not corrupt his bloodline  among his people, for I am the Lord who sets him apart.’

Joshua 23:12

If you ever turn away and become loyal to the rest of these nations remaining among you,  and if you intermarry or associate with them  and they with you,

Joshua 23:13

know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you,  a sharp stick  for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

Judges 14:3

But his father and mother said to him, ‘Can’t you find a young woman among your relatives or among any of our people? Must you go to the uncircumcised Philistines for a wife? ’ But Samson told his father, ‘Get her for me. She’s the right one for me.’

Judges 3:5

But they settled among the Canaanites, Hethites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.

Judges 3:6

The Israelites took their daughters as wives for themselves, gave their own daughters to their sons, and worshipped their gods.

Judges 8:27

Gideon made an ephod  from all this and put it in Ophrah, his home town. Then all Israel prostituted themselves by worshipping it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and his household.