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Joshua 23:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

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And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

But may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this one thing: when my master goes into the house of Rimmon for worship there, supported on my arm, and my head is bent in the house of Rimmon; when his head is bent in the house of Rimmon, may your servant have the Lord's forgiveness for this thing.

But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.

Do not go in the road of sinners, or be walking in the way of evil men.

And it will be that, if they give their minds to learning the ways of my people, using my name in their oaths, By the living Lord; as they have been teaching my people to take oaths by the Baal; then their place will be made certain among my people.

How is it possible for you to have my forgiveness for this? your children have given me up, taking their oaths by those who are no gods: when I had given them food in full measure, they were false to their wives, taking their pleasure in the houses of loose women.

For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.

And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,

And Nebo and Baal-meon, their names being changed, and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.

Let the fear of the Lord your God be in your hearts, and be his servants, taking your oaths by his name.

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

But be true to the Lord your God as you have been till this day.




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