16And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.


In Context

13 Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.

14 Do not worship any other god, for the Lord , whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

15 "Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.

16 And when you choose some of their daughters as wives for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods, they will lead your sons to do the same.

17 "Do not make cast idols.

18 "Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Abib, for in that month you came out of Egypt.

Exodus 34:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

34:16And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

34:16Neither shalt thou take of their daughters a wife for thy son, lest after they themselves have committed fornication, they make thy sons also to commit fornication with their gods.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

34:16and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters play the harlot after their gods, and make thy sons play the harlot after their gods.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:16and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

34:16and thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:16And thou take of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters go astray after their gods, and make thy sons go astray after their gods.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

34:16and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

34:16and thou hast taken of their daughters to thy sons, and their daughters have gone a-whoring after their gods, and have caused thy sons to go a-whoring after their gods;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

34:16And you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make your sons go a whoring after their gods.