Leviticus 19:4
2 “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
3 Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
5 When you sacrifice a peace offering to the LORD, you shall offer it for your acceptance.
6 It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third day must be burned up.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
- KJV
- Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
- WEB
- “‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.
- ASV
- Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.
- DARBY
- Ye shall not turn unto idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.
- BLB
- You⁺ shall not turn to the idols, and you⁺ shall not make molten gods for yourselves. I [am] YHWH your⁺ God.
- ÅB
- Dere skal ikke vende dere til avgudene og ikke gjøre dere støpte guder; jeg er Herren deres Gud.
- OTB
- Vend dere ikke til avguder eller lag dere støpte guder. Jeg er Herren deres Gud.
- B1930
- I skal ikke vende eder til avgudene og ikke gjøre eder støpte guder; jeg er Herren eders Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Leviticus 26:1
“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.
Read in contextExodus 34:17
You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
Read in contextPsalms 115:4–7
Their idols are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
Read in contextExodus 20:23
You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 27:15
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:14
Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
Read in context1 John 5:21
Little children, keep yourselves from idols.
Read in contextPsalms 96:5
For all the gods of the nations are idols, but it is the LORD who made the heavens.
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