Deuteronomy 23:6
Thou shalt not make peace with them, neither shalt thou seek their prosperity all the days of thy life for ever.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Non facies cum eis pacem, nec quæras eis bona cunctis diebus vitæ tuæ in sempiternum.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οὐ προσαγορεύσεις εἰρηνικὰ αὐτοῖς καὶ συμφέροντα αὐτοῖς πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας σου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Deuteronomy 23:7
- לֹא תִדְרֹ֥שׁ שְׁלֹמָ֖ם וְטֹבָתָ֑ם כָּל יָמֶ֖יךָ לְעוֹלָֽם
Haydock's commentary
Peace. Hebrew, "ask or seek not their peace nor their advantage" as a nation; keep at a proper distance; have no familiarity with them. (Haydock)
Their vices, not their persons, are to be hated. David behaved in a friendly manner with the king of Ammon, 2 Kings x. 2. He was afterwards forced to make war upon the people, though, without such extraordinary provocations, war was not to be declared against them. (Calmet)
Prosperity. Have no intercourse with them. (Menochius)
Septuagint, "Salute them not, wishing them what may tend to their peace and advantage."
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.