Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 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 But you shall utterly destroy them: the Hittites, and the Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; as Jehovah your God has commanded you, 18 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. 19 When you shall besiege a city a long time in making war against it to take it, you shall not destroy its trees by forcing an axe against them. For you may eat of them, and you shall not cut them down. For is the tree of the field a man that it should go before you to lay siege?
Cross References
Exodus 23:33
They shall not dwell in your land lest they make you sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it surely will be a snare to you.
Deuteronomy 12:30-31
take heed to yourself that you do not become snared by following them, after they are destroyed from before you, and that you do not ask about their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods, that I too may do likewise?
Psalm 106:34-40
They did not destroy the nations as Jehovah commanded them;
Exodus 34:16
and lest you take from their daughters for your sons, and their daughters go whoring after their gods and make your sons go whoring after their gods.
Deuteronomy 7:4-5
For they will turn away your son from following Me, so that they may serve other gods. So the anger of Jehovah will be kindled against you and will destroy you suddenly.
Deuteronomy 18:19
And it shall happen, whatever man will not listen to My Words which He shall speak in My name, I will require it of him.
Joshua 23:13
know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and whips in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God has given you.
Judges 2:3
And I also said, I will not drive them out from before you, but they shall be thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare to you.
1 Corinthians 15:33
Do not be deceived; evil companionships corrupt good habits.
2 Corinthians 6:17
Therefore come out from among them and be separated, says the Lord, and do not touch the unclean thing. And I will receive you
Ephesians 5:11
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
2 Thessalonians 3:14
And if anyone does not obey our word by this letter, mark that one and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.
1 Timothy 6:5
meddling, of men whose minds have been corrupted and deprived of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness. Withdraw from such.
2 Timothy 2:17-18
And their word will eat like a gangrene; among whom are Hymeneus and Philetus,
Revelation 18:3-5
because of the wine of the anger of her fornication which all the nations have drunk. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her. And the merchants of the earth became rich from the power of her luxury.