Parallel Verses
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
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,
Darby Translation
lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of 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,
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
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 4:16
Verse Info
Context Readings
Worshiping The True God
15 Take heed unto yourselves diligently as pertaining unto your souls, for ye saw no manner of image the day when the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the fire; 16 lest ye mar yourselves and make you graven images after whatsoever likeness it be: whether after the likeness of man or woman 17 or any manner beast that is on the earth or of any manner feathered fowl that flyeth in the air,
Cross References
Exodus 20:4-5
"Thou shalt make thee no graven image, neither any similitude that is in heaven above, either in the earth beneath, or in the water that is beneath the earth.
Exodus 32:7
Then the LORD said unto Moses, "Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt,
Deuteronomy 4:23
Take heed unto yourselves therefore, that ye forget not the covenant of the LORD your God which he made with you, and that ye make you no graven image of whatsoever it be that the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
Deuteronomy 5:8
'Thou shalt make thee no graven image of any manner likeness that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, or in the water beneath the earth.
Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the generation of God, we ought not to think that the godhead is like unto gold, silver, or stone, graven by craft and imagination of man.
Deuteronomy 4:8-9
Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day?
Deuteronomy 4:25
If after thou hast gotten children and children's children and hast dwelt long in the land, ye shall mar yourselves and make graven images after the likeness of whatsoever it be, and shall work wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him.
Psalm 106:19-20
They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image.
Isaiah 40:18
"To whom then will ye liken God? Or what similitude will ye set up unto him?
John 4:24
God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit, and truth."
Acts 20:4-5
There accompanied him into Asia, Sopater of Beroea: And of Thessalonica, Aristarchus and Secundus, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy: And out of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.
Romans 1:22-24
When they counted themselves wise, they became fools
1 Timothy 1:17
So then unto God, King everlasting, immortal, invisible, and wise only, be honour and praise for ever and ever. Amen.