Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,
New American Standard Bible
so that you do not
King James Version
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Holman Bible
not to act corruptly and make an idol for yourselves in the shape of any figure: a male or female form,
International Standard Version
Be careful! Otherwise, you will be destroyed when you make carved images for yourself all sorts of images in the form of man, woman,
A Conservative Version
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make for you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
American Standard Version
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Amplified
so that you do not act corruptly and make for yourselves a carved or sculpted image [to worship] in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Bible in Basic English
So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,
Julia Smith Translation
Lest ye shall be corrupted and make to you a carved thing, the appearance of any likeness, the model of male or female,
King James 2000
Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Lexham Expanded Bible
so that you [do] not {ruin yourselves} and make for yourselves a divine image [in] a form of any image, a replica of male or female,
Modern King James verseion
lest you act corruptly and make yourselves a graven image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman
NET Bible
I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,
New Heart English Bible
Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
The Emphasized Bible
lest ye should break faith, and make you an image, a form of any likeness, - a model of male or female;
Webster
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
World English Bible
Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Youngs Literal Translation
lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female --
Themes
Heedfulness » Necessary » Against idolatry
Reptiles » No image or similitude of, to be made for worshipping
Interlinear
Shachath
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 4:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Worshiping The True God
15 And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire), 16 lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female, 17 the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
Cross References
Exodus 20:4-5
Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, or any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:
Exodus 32:7
Then Jehovah said to Moses, Away, go down! for thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, is acting corruptly.
Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed to yourselves lest ye forget the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he made with you, and make yourselves a graven image, the form of anything which Jehovah thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy 5:8
Thou shalt not make thyself any graven image, any form of what is in the heavens above, or what is in the earth beneath, or what is in the waters under the earth:
Acts 17:29
Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.
Deuteronomy 4:8-9
And what great nation is there that hath righteous statutes and ordinances, as all this law which I set before you this day?
Deuteronomy 4:25
When thou begettest sons, and sons' sons, and ye have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, the form of anything, and do evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger,
Psalm 106:19-20
They made a calf in Horeb, and did homage to a molten image;
Isaiah 40:18
To whom then will ye liken God? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?
John 4:24
God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.
Acts 20:4-5
And there accompanied him as far as Asia, Sopater son of Pyrrhus, a Berean; and of Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius and Timotheus of Derbe, and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
Romans 1:22-24
professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
1 Timothy 1:17
Now to the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only God, honour and glory to the ages of ages. Amen.