Parallel Verses

Amplified

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods (images cast in metal); I am the Lord your God.

New American Standard Bible

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods; I am the Lord your God.

King James Version

Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

Holman Bible

Do not turn to idols or make cast images of gods for yourselves; I am Yahweh your God.

International Standard Version

"You are not to turn to their idols or cast gods out of melted metal for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

A Conservative Version

Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am LORD your God.

American Standard Version

Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.

Bible in Basic English

Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

Darby Translation

Ye shall not turn unto idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye shall not turn to vain things, and molten gods ye shall not make to yourselves: I am Jehovah your God.

King James 2000

Turn you not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

You must not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal; I [am] Yahweh your God.

Modern King James verseion

Do not turn to idols, nor make molten gods to yourselves. I am Jehovah your God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye shall not turn unto idols nor make you gods of metal: I am the LORD your God.

NET Bible

Do not turn to idols, and you must not make for yourselves gods of cast metal. I am the Lord your God.

New Heart English Bible

"'Do not turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

The Emphasized Bible

Do not turn unto things of nought, And, molten gods, shall ye not make to yourselves, - I - Yahweh, am your God.

Webster

Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

World English Bible

"'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

Youngs Literal Translation

Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I am Jehovah your God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
פּנה 
Panah 
Usage: 134

ye not unto idols
אליל 
'eliyl 
Usage: 19

מסּכה 
Maccekah 
Usage: 28

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

I am the Lord

Usage: 0

References

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

God

Context Readings

Yahweh Is Holy

3 Each of you shall respect his mother and his father, and you shall keep My Sabbaths; I am the Lord your God. 4 Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods (images cast in metal); I am the Lord your God. 5 ‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted.


Cross References

Leviticus 26:1

‘You shall not make idols for yourselves, nor shall you erect an image, a sacred pillar or an obelisk, nor shall you place any figured stone in your land so that you may bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.

Exodus 20:23

You shall not make other gods [to worship] besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make [these lifeless idols] for yourselves.

Exodus 34:17

You shall make for yourselves no molten gods.

Exodus 20:3-5

“You shall have no other gods before Me.

Deuteronomy 27:15

‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or cast image (idol), a repulsive thing to the Lord, the work of the hands of the artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

1 John 5:21

Little children (believers, dear ones), guard yourselves from idols—[false teachings, moral compromises, and anything that would take God’s place in your heart].

Exodus 32:4

And he took the gold from their hands, and fashioned it with an engraving tool and made it into a molten calf; and they said, “This is your god, O Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.”

Psalm 96:5


For all the gods of the peoples are [worthless, lifeless] idols,
But the Lord made the heavens.

Psalm 115:4-7


The idols [of the nations] are silver and gold,
The work of man’s hands.

Haggai 2:18

‘Do consider from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the Lord was founded, consider:

1 Corinthians 10:14

Therefore, my beloved, run [keep far, far away] from [any sort of] idolatry [and that includes loving anything more than God, or participating in anything that leads to sin and enslaves the soul].

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