Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
Holman Bible
Instead, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, and chop down their Asherah poles.
International Standard Version
Rather, you are to tear down their altars, you are to smash their sacred pillars, and you are to cut down their sacred poles
A Conservative Version
But ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim,
American Standard Version
but ye shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their Asherim;
Amplified
But you shall tear down and destroy their [pagan] altars, smash in pieces their [sacred] pillars (obelisks, images) and cut down their
Bible in Basic English
But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:
Darby Translation
but ye shall demolish their altars, shatter their statues, and hew down their Asherahs.
Julia Smith Translation
For their altars thou shalt lay waste, and their pillars thou shalt break, and their images thou shalt cut of
King James 2000
But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their idol poles:
Lexham Expanded Bible
Rather, you will tear down their altars, and you will break their stone pillars, and you will cut off their Asherah poles.
Modern King James verseion
But you shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their sacred poles.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But overthrow their altars and break their pillars, and cut down their groves,
NET Bible
Rather you must destroy their altars, smash their images, and cut down their Asherah poles.
New Heart English Bible
but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
The Emphasized Bible
For their altars, shall ye smash, And their pillars, shall ye shiver, - And their sacred-stems, shall ye fell.
Webster
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves.
World English Bible
but you shall break down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and you shall cut down their Asherim;
Youngs Literal Translation
for their altars ye break down, and their standing pillars ye shiver, and its shrines ye cut down;
Themes
Alliances » Political » With idolaters forbidden
Altars » For idolatrous worship, to be destroyed
Awakenings and religious reforms » Iconoclasm accompanying reforms » Idols to be destroyed
Covenant » Who not to make a covenant with
Groves » Of canaanites, to be destroyed
Iconoclasm » Idols to be destroyed
Idolatry » What should be done to idols
Idolatry » Everything connected with, should be destroyed
Idolatry » Objects of, worshipped » In groves
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 34:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Covenant Stipulations
12
Keep thyself lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land where thou must enter lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee;
13
Phrases
Cross References
Exodus 23:24
Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works; but thou shalt utterly overthrow them and completely break down their images.
2 Kings 18:4
He removed the high places and broke the images and cut down the groves and broke in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made; for unto those days, the sons of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
Judges 6:25
And it came to pass the same night that the LORD said unto him, Take a bullock of thy father's house and a second bullock seven years old and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father has and cut down the grove that is by it
Deuteronomy 7:5
But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall destroy their altars and break down their images and cut down their groves and burn their graven images in the fire.
Judges 2:2
as long as ye make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; to the contrary, ye shall throw down their altars, but ye have not heard my voice; why have ye done this?
2 Kings 23:14
And he broke the images in pieces and cut down the groves and filled their places with the bones of men.
2 Chronicles 31:1
Now when all this was finished, all Israel went out, those that were present, to the cities of Judah and broke the images in pieces and cut down the groves and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the sons of Israel returned, each man to his possession, into their own cities.
2 Chronicles 34:3-4
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David, his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places and the groves and the graven images and the molten images.
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
The graven images of their gods ye shall burn in the fire; thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.
Deuteronomy 12:2-3
Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, upon which the Gentiles, of whom ye shall inherit, served their gods, upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree;
Deuteronomy 16:21
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.