“Be careful, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where you are going, lest it be for a snare among you;”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Exodus 34 contains 35 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.