Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
You shall make no idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not set up any image of stone in your land in order to bow down to it. For I am Jehovah your God.
New American Standard Bible
‘You shall not make for yourselves
King James Version
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Holman Bible
“Do not make idols for yourselves,
International Standard Version
"You are not to make worthless idols, images, or pillars for yourselves, nor set up for yourselves carved images to bow down to them in the land, because I am the LORD your God.
A Conservative Version
Ye shall make for you no idols. Neither shall ye rear up for you a graven image, or a pillar. Neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it. For I am LORD your God.
American Standard Version
Ye shall make you no idols, neither shall ye rear you up a graven image, or a pillar, neither shall ye place any figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am Jehovah your God.
Amplified
Bible in Basic English
Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.
Darby Translation
Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.
Julia Smith Translation
Ye shall not make to yourselves vain things, and carving, and a pillar ye shall not set up to you, and a stone of imagery ye shall not give in your land, to worship upon it: for I Jehovah your God.
King James 2000
You shall make no idols nor graven images, neither raise you up a standing image, neither shall you set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.
Lexham Expanded Bible
" 'You shall not make for yourselves idols and divine images, and you shall not raise up stone pillars for yourselves, and you shall not put a sculptured stone in your land in order to worship before it, because I [am] Yahweh your God.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye shall make you no idols, nor graven image, neither rear you up any pillar, neither ye shall set up any image of stone in your land to bow yourselves thereto: for I am the LORD your God;
NET Bible
"'You must not make for yourselves idols, so you must not set up for yourselves a carved image or a pillar, and you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down before it, for I am the Lord your God.
New Heart English Bible
"'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye shall not make unto you idols, - neither image nor pillar, shall ye set up for yourselves, nor sculptured stone, shall ye place in your land, to bow yourselves down thereunto,-For, I Yahweh, am your God.
Webster
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am the LORD your God.
World English Bible
"'You shall make for yourselves no idols, neither shall you raise up an engraved image or a pillar, neither shall you place any figured stone in your land, to bow down to it: for I am Yahweh your God.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ye do not make to yourselves idols; and graven image or standing image ye do not set up to yourselves; and a stone of imagery ye do not put in your land, to bow yourselves to it; for I am Jehovah your God.
Themes
Abhorrence » of the Lord » shall not » abhor
Bowing » What not to bow down before
Covenant » Who the lord keeps covenant with
Idol » Made of » Wood and stone
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 26:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Blessings For Obedience
1 You shall make no idols to yourselves; and you shall not set up for yourselves graven images, or a memorial pillar. And you shall not set up any image of stone in your land in order to bow down to it. For I am Jehovah your God. 2 You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary. I am Jehovah.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:4
Do not turn to idols, nor make molten gods to yourselves. I am Jehovah your God.
Exodus 23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them. And you shall not do according to their works. But you shall surely pull them down, and surely you shall smash their images.
Exodus 20:4-5
You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Exodus 20:23
You shall not make with Me gods of silver, neither shall you make to you gods of gold.
Numbers 33:52
then you shall drive out all those who live in the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images and pluck down all their high places.
Deuteronomy 16:21-22
You shall not set up for yourself pillars of any trees near the altar of Jehovah your God which you shall make for yourself.
Exodus 34:17
You shall make you no molten gods.
Deuteronomy 4:16-19
lest you act corruptly and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 5:8-9
You shall not make a graven image for you, any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters beneath the earth.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed is the man that makes any graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and puts it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
Psalm 97:7
All those who serve graven images are ashamed, those who boast themselves in idols; all gods bow down before Him.
Psalm 115:4-8
Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 44:9-20
Those who make a graven image are all of them vanity; and the things in which they delight shall not help; and they are their own witnesses. They do not see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
Isaiah 48:5-8
And I declared it to you from the beginning. Before it happened I revealed it to you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
Jeremiah 10:3-8
For the customs of the people are vain; for one cuts a tree out of the forest with the axe, the work of the hands of the workman.
Acts 17:29
Then being offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like gold or silver or stone, engraved by art and man's imagination.
Romans 2:22-23
The one saying not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? The one detesting idols, do you rob temples?
1 Corinthians 10:19-20
What then do I say? That the idol is anything, or that an idolatrous sacrifice is anything?
Revelation 13:14-15
And it deceives those dwelling on the earth, because of the miracles which were given to it to do before the beast, saying to those dwelling on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the wound by a sword and lived.
Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie.