Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.
New American Standard Bible
so that they may not teach you to do
King James Version
That 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.
Holman Bible
so that they won’t teach you to do all the detestable things they do for their gods, and you sin against the Lord your God.
International Standard Version
so they won't teach you to do all the detestable things that they do for their gods. If you do what they teach you, you will sin against the LORD your God."
A Conservative Version
that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods, so ye would sin against LORD your God.
American Standard Version
that 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.
Amplified
so that they will not teach you to act in accordance with all the detestable practices which they have done [in worship and service] for their gods, and in this way cause you to sin against the Lord your God.
Darby Translation
that 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.
Julia Smith Translation
So that they shall not teach you to do according to all their abominations to their gods; and ye sinned to Jehovah your God.
King James 2000
That they teach you not to do according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so that you should sin against the LORD your God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
so that they may not teach you to do like all their detestable things that they do for their gods and [thereby] you sin against Yahweh your God.
Modern King James verseion
so that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominations which they have done to their gods. So you would sin against Jehovah your God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that they teach you not to do after all their abominations which they do unto their gods, and so should sin against the LORD your God.
NET Bible
so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.
New Heart English Bible
that they not teach you to do after all their abominations, which they have done to their gods; so would you sin against the LORD your God.
The Emphasized Bible
lest they teach you to do, according to all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods, - and so ye sin against Yahweh your God.
Webster
That 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.
World English Bible
that 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
so 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.
Interlinear
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 20:18
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
17 Give them up to the curse; the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, as the Lord your God has given you orders: 18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God. 19 If in war a town is shut in by your armies for a long time, do not let its trees be cut down and made waste; for their fruit will be your food; are the trees of the countryside men for you to take up arms against them?
Cross References
Exodus 23:33
Let them not go on living in your land, or they will make you do evil against me: for if you give worship to their gods, it will certainly be a cause of sin to you.
Deuteronomy 12:30-31
After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.
Psalm 106:34-40
They did not put an end to the peoples, as the Lord had said;
Exodus 34:16
Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.
Deuteronomy 7:4-5
For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.
Deuteronomy 18:19
And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.
Joshua 23:13
Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
Judges 2:3
And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be tricked by false words: evil company does damage to good behaviour.
2 Corinthians 6:17
For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,
Ephesians 5:11
And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;
2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if any man does not give attention to what we have said in this letter, take note of that man, and keep away from him, so that he may be shamed.
1 Timothy 6:5
Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.
2 Timothy 2:17-18
And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;
Revelation 18:3-5
For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.