Exodus 34:15

Staten Vertaling

Opdat gij misschien geen verbond maakt met den inwoner van dat land; en zij hun goden niet nahoereren, noch hun goden offerande doen, en hij u nodigende, gij van hun offerande etet.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
opdat gij geen verbond maakt met de inwoners des lands, en als zij hunne goden nahoereren en hunnen goden offeren, zij u niet nodigen en gij van hun offer eet,

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Sluit dan geen verbond met de bevolking des lands. Immers, als zij hun goden naboeleren en aan hun goden offeren, zouden zij u licht nodigen en zoudt gij van hun offer eten

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

make: Exodus 34:10, Exodus 34:12, Exodus 23:32, Deuteronomy 7:2

whoring: Leviticus 17:7, Leviticus 20:5, Leviticus 20:6, Numbers 15:39, Deuteronomy 31:16, Judges 2:17, Psalms 73:27, Jeremiah 3:9, Ezra 6:9, Hosea 4:12, Hosea 9:1, Revelation 17:1-5

call thee: Numbers 25:2, 1 Corinthians 10:27

eat: Psalms 106:28, 1 Corinthians 8:4, 1 Corinthians 8:7, 1 Corinthians 8:10, 1 Corinthians 10:20, 1 Corinthians 10:21, Revelation 2:20

Reciprocal: Genesis 28:1 - Thou shalt Deuteronomy 7:3 - General Joshua 24:15 - or the gods Judges 8:33 - went 1 Chronicles 5:25 - a whoring 2 Chronicles 21:13 - a whoring Psalms 106:36 - And Ezekiel 18:6 - not Hosea 1:2 - for Acts 15:20 - from pollutions

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land,.... A marriage covenant, taking their daughters in marriage to their sons, and "vice versa", as the following words show; here the caution is to be understood and the words supplied from Exodus 34:12 and inserted and connected thus, "take heed to thyself, lest thou make", c.

and they go a whoring after their gods that is, the inhabitants of the land, and particularly those with whom the Israelites made a covenant, and entered into a marriage relation with, and perhaps on this condition, that they would abstain from idolatry; and yet, contrary to the obligation they laid themselves under, lust after their idols, and commit spiritual fornication or adultery with them, which is explained by the next clause:

and do sacrifice unto their gods; such as the first institutors of their idolatry enjoined, and their ancestors had observed, and were according to the rites and customs of the country:

and [one] call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; invite to eat of what remained, that was offered to the idol: hence it appears, that having feasts at sacrifices, and eating things offered to idols in a festival way, are very ancient practices; see 1 Corinthians 10:27.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The precepts contained in these verses are, for the most part, identical in substance with some of those which follow the Ten Commandments and are recorded in “the Book of the covenant” (Exo. 20–23; see Exodus 24:7).

Exodus 34:13

Cut down their groves - This is the first reference to what is commonly known as grove-worship. The original word for “grove” in this connection אשׁרה 'ăshêrāh is different from that so rendered in Genesis 21:33. Our translators supposed that what the law commands is the destruction of groves dedicated to the worship of false deities Judges 6:25; 2 Kings 18:4; but inasmuch as the worship of asherah is found associated with that of Astarte, or Ashtoreth Judges 2:13; Jdg 10:6; 1 Samuel 7:4, it seems probable that while Astarte was the personal name of the goddess, the asherah was a symbol of her, probably in some one of her characters, made in wood in some conventional form.

Exodus 34:15-16

An expansion of Exodus 34:12. The unfaithfulness of the nation to its covenant with Yahweh is here for the first time spoken of as a breach of the marriage bond. The metaphor is, in any case, a natural one, but it seems to gain point, if we suppose it to convey an allusion to the abominations connected with pagan worship, such as are spoken of in Numbers 25:1-3.

Exodus 34:21

See Exodus 20:9; Exodus 23:12. There is here added to the commandment a particular caution respecting those times of year when the land calls for most labor. The old verb “to ear” (i. e. to plow) is genuine English.

Exodus 34:24

Neither shall any man desire etc. - Intended to encourage such as might fear the consequences of obeying the divine law in attending to their religious duties. Compare Proverbs 16:7.