18Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.


In Context

15 This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes.

17 Completely destroy them-the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites-as the Lord your God has commanded you.

18 Otherwise, they will teach you to follow all the detestable things they do in worshiping their gods, and you will sin against the Lord your God.

19 When you lay siege to a city for a long time, fighting against it to capture it, do not destroy its trees by putting an ax to them, because you can eat their fruit. Do not cut them down. Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them?

20 However, you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

Deuteronomy 20:18 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:18That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:18Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:18that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:18that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, so that ye sin against Jehovah your God.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:18that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:18That they may not teach you to do after all their abominations which they have done to their gods; so would ye sin against the LORD your God.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:18that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against Yahweh your God.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:18so that they teach you not to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods, and ye have sinned against Jehovah your God.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:18That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so should you sin against the LORD your God.