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Exodus 34:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

‘Do not make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land, or else when they prostitute themselves with their gods and sacrifice to their gods, they will invite you, and you will eat their sacrifices.

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but they did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted  themselves with other gods, bowing down to them. They quickly turned from the way  of their ancestors, who had walked in obedience to the Lord’s commands. They did not do as their ancestors did.


About eating food sacrificed to idols, then, we know that ‘an idol is nothing in the world’,  and that ‘there is no God but one’.


The Lord said to Moses, ‘You are about to rest with your ancestors,  and these people will soon prostitute themselves with the foreign gods  of the land they are entering. They will abandon me  and break the covenant  I have made with them.


The women invited them to the sacrifices for their gods, and the people ate and bowed in worship to their gods.


If any of the unbelievers invites you over and you want to go, eat everything that is set before you, without raising questions for the sake of conscience.


For if someone sees you, the one who has knowledge, dining in an idol’s temple, won’t his weak conscience be encouraged  to eat food offered to idols?


However, not everyone has this knowledge. Some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food sacrificed to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.


Indifferent to  her prostitution, she defiled the land and committed adultery with stones  and trees.


They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat-demons  that they have prostituted  themselves with. This will be a permanent statute  for them throughout their generations.


Be careful not to make a treaty with the inhabitants of the land that you are going to enter; otherwise, they will become a snare among you.


But I have this against you: You tolerate the woman Jezebel,   who calls herself a prophetess and teaches and deceives my servants to commit sexual immorality and to eat meat sacrificed to idols.


Israel, do not rejoice jubilantly as the nations do, for you have acted promiscuously,  leaving your God. You love the wages of a prostitute on every grain threshing-floor.


My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of promiscuity leads them astray; they act promiscuously in disobedience to   their God.


Whatever is needed #– #young bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of the heavens, or wheat, salt, wine, and oil, as requested by the priests in Jerusalem #– #let it be given to them every day without fail,


and when the Lord your God delivers them over to you and you defeat them, you must completely destroy  them. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.


These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart  and your own eyes.


And the Lord responded, ‘Look, I am making a covenant. In the presence of all your people I will perform wonders that have never been done  in the whole earth or in any nation. All the people you live among will see the Lord’s work, for what I am doing with you is awe-inspiring.


You must not make a covenant  with them or their gods.


but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,  from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.


‘Whoever sacrifices to any gods, except the Lord alone, is to be set apart for destruction.


They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, “Israel, these are your gods, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.” ’


While Israel was staying in the Acacia Grove,  , the people began to prostitute themselves with the women of Moab.


You must not intermarry with them, and you must not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,


He will say, ‘Where are their gods, the ‘rock’ they found refuge in?


Who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let it  be a shelter for you.


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,


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


But they were unfaithful to the God of their ancestors. They prostituted themselves  with the gods of the nations  God had destroyed before them.


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.’


‘Whoever has sexual intercourse with an animal  must be put to death.


I will certainly hide my face on that day because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.





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