| Deuteronomy 23:6 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | "You shall never seek their peace or their prosperity all your days. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Never offer them peace or friendship as long as you live.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. |
| ASV: | Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. |
| BBE: | Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever. |
| DBY: | Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. |
| ERV: | Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. |
| JPS: | Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. |
| WBS: | Thou shalt not seek their peace, nor their prosperity all thy days for ever. |
| WEB: | You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. |
| YLT: | thou dost not seek their peace and their good all thy days -- to the age. |
| Deuteronomy 23:6 Cross References |
| XREF: | Ezra 9:12 So now do not give your daughters to their sons nor take their daughters to your sons, and never seek their peace or their prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good things of the land and leave it as an inheritance to your sons forever.' (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 23:6 Thou {d} shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.
(d) You shall have nothing to do with them. |
| WES: | 23:6 Thou shalt not seek their peace - That is, make no contracts either by marriages or leagues, or commerce with them, but rather constantly keep a jealous eye over them, as enemies who will watch every opportunity to ensnare or disturb thee. This counsel was now the more necessary, because a great part of the Israelites lived beyond Jordan in the borders of those people, and therefore God sets up this wall of partition betwixt them, as well knowing the mischief of bad neighbours, and Israel's proneness to receive infection from them. Each particular Israelite is not hereby forbidden to perform any office of humanity to them, but the body of the nation are forbidden all familiar conversation with them. |
| MHC: | 23:1-8 We ought to value the privileges of God's people, both for ourselves and for our children, above all other advantages. No personal blemishes, no crimes of our forefathers, no difference of nation, shuts us out under the Christian dispensation. But an unsound heart will deprive us of blessings; and a bad example, or an unsuitable marriage, may shut our children from them. |
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