Exodus 34:8-17 (NIV) (2024)

⁸Moses bowed to the ground at once and worshiped. ⁹“Lord,” he said, “if I have found favor^(A) in your eyes, then let the Lord go with us.^(B) Although this is a stiff-necked^(C) people, forgive our wickedness and our sin,^(D) and take us as your inheritance.”^(E)

¹⁰Then the Lord said: “I am making a covenant^(F) with you. Before all your people I will do wonders^(G) never before done in any nation in all the world.^(H) The people you live among will see how awesome is the work that I, the Lord, will do for you. ¹¹Obey what I command^(I) you today. I will drive out before you the Amorites, Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.^{(J) 12}Be careful not to make a treaty^(K) with those who live in the land where you are going, or they will be a snare^(L) among you. ¹³Break down their altars, smash their sacred stones and cut down their Asherah poles.^{[a](M) 14}Do not worship any other god,^(N) for the Lord, whose name^(O) is Jealous, is a jealous God.^(P)

¹⁵“Be careful not to make a treaty^(Q) with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute^(R) themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices.^{(S) 16}And when you choose some of their daughters as wives^(T) for your sons and those daughters prostitute themselves to their gods,^(U) they will lead your sons to do the same.

¹⁷“Do not make any idols.^(V)

Footnotes

1. Exodus 34:13 That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah

Cross references

1. Exodus 34:9 : Ex 33:13; Nu 11:15
2. Exodus 34:9 : S Ex 33:15
3. Exodus 34:9 : Ex 32:9
4. Exodus 34:9 : Nu 14:19; 1Ki 8:30; 2Ch 6:21; Ps 19:12; 25:11; Jer 33:8; Hos 14:2
5. Exodus 34:9 : S Ex 6:7; 19:5; Dt 4:20; 7:6; 9:26, 29; 14:2; 26:18; 32:9; 1Sa 10:1; 2Sa 14:16; 1Ki 8:51, 53; Ps 28:9; 33:12; 74:2; 79:1; 94:14; 106:5, 40; Isa 19:25; 63:17; Jer 10:16; 51:19; Mic 7:18; Zec 2:12
6. Exodus 34:10 : S Ge 6:18; S 9:15; S 15:18; Dt 5:2-3
7. Exodus 34:10 : S Ex 3:20
8. Exodus 34:10 : S Ex 33:16
9. Exodus 34:11 : Dt 6:25; Jos 11:15
10. Exodus 34:11 : S Ex 23:28
11. Exodus 34:12 : Jdg 2:2
12. Exodus 34:12 : S Ex 10:7
13. Exodus 34:13 : S Ex 23:24; Nu 33:52; Dt 7:5; 12:3; Jdg 6:26; 1Ki 15:13; 2Ch 15:16; 17:6; 34:3-4; Mic 5:14
14. Exodus 34:14 : S Ex 20:3
15. Exodus 34:14 : Isa 9:6
16. Exodus 34:14 : S Ex 20:5
17. Exodus 34:15 : ver 12; Dt 23:6; Ezr 9:12
18. Exodus 34:15 : Ex 22:20; 32:8; Dt 31:16; Jdg 2:17; 2Ki 17:8; 1Ch 5:25; 2Ch 11:15; Am 2:4
19. Exodus 34:15 : S Ex 32:6; 1Co 8:4
20. Exodus 34:16 : Dt 7:3; 17:17; Jos 23:12; Jdg 3:6; 14:3; 1Ki 11:1, 2; 16:31; Ezr 9:2; 10:3; Ne 10:30; 13:25, 26
21. Exodus 34:16 : Dt 7:4; 12:31; 20:18; 1Ki 11:4; 2Ki 21:3-15; Ps 106:34-41; Mal 2:11
22. Exodus 34:17 : S Ex 20:4