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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.
New American Standard Bible
Do not turn to
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
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.
Amplified
Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods (images cast in metal); 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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 19:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Is Holy
3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God. 4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God. 5 And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.
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Cross References
Leviticus 26:1
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.
Exodus 20:23
Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.
Exodus 34:17
Make for yourselves no gods of metal.
Exodus 20:3-5
You are to have no other gods but me.
Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed is the man who makes any image of wood or stone or metal, disgusting to the Lord, the work of man's hands, and puts it up in secret. And let all the people say, So be it.
1 John 5:21
My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.
Exodus 32:4
And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.
Psalm 96:5
For all the gods of the nations are false gods; but the Lord made the heavens.
Psalm 115:4-7
Their images are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.
Haggai 2:18
And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.
1 Corinthians 10:14
For this cause, my dear brothers, give no worship to false gods.