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Exodus 23

Ex. 23:32 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Thou shalt make
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
no covenant
briyth (Hebrew #1285)
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh)
KJV usage: confederacy, (con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
Pronounce: ber-eeth'
Origin: from 1262 (in the sense of cutting (like 1254))
a with them, nor with their gods
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
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Ex. 34:12,15• 12Take 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:
 15Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; (Ex. 34:12,15)
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Psa. 106:35• 35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. (Psa. 106:35)
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2 Cor. 6:15• 15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? (2 Cor. 6:15)

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Covenant,
Gods; Goddess

Cross References

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shalt make.
Ex. 34:12,15• 12Take 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:
 15Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice; (Ex. 34:12,15)
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Deut. 7:2• 2And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them: (Deut. 7:2)
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Josh. 9:14‑23• 14And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord.
 15And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
 16And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.
 17And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.
 18And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
 19But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the Lord God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
 20This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
 21And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
 22And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?
 23Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. (Josh. 9:14‑23)
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2 Sam. 21:1‑2• 1Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
 2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.) (2 Sam. 21:1‑2)
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Psa. 106:35• 35But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works. (Psa. 106:35)
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2 Cor. 6:15• 15And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? (2 Cor. 6:15)
nor with.
Num. 25:1‑2• 1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
 2And they called the people unto the sacrifices of their gods: and the people did eat, and bowed down to their gods. (Num. 25:1‑2)
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Deut. 7:16• 16And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee. (Deut. 7:16)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.