Êxodo 23:32

32 Não farás pacto algum com eles, nem com os seus deuses.

Êxodo 23:32 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 23:32

Thou shalt make no covenant with them
A covenant of peace, a league, a confederacy, so as to take them to be their allies and friends; but they were always to consider them as their enemies, until they had made an utter end of them; though the Gibeonites by craft and guile obtained a league of them; but the methods they took to get it show they had some knowledge of this law, that the Israelites might not, or at least would not, make any league or covenant with the inhabitants of the land of Canaan. This may be also extended to marriage covenants, which they were forbid to make with them; which yet they did, and proved a snare to them, for this brought them to makes a covenant with their gods, and serve them, which is here also forbidden:

nor with their gods;
making vows unto them, promising to serve them, if they would do such and such things for them.

Êxodo 23:32 In-Context

30 Pouco a pouco os lançarei de diante de ti, até que te multipliques e possuas a terra por herança.
31 E fixarei os teus limites desde o Mar Vermelho até o mar dos filisteus, e desde o deserto até o o rio; porque hei de entregar nas tuas mãos os moradores da terra, e tu os expulsarás de diante de ti.
32 Não farás pacto algum com eles, nem com os seus deuses.
33 Não habitarão na tua terra, para que não te façam pecar contra mim; pois se servires os seus deuses, certamente isso te será um laço.
The Almeida Atualizada is in the public domain.