Deuteronomy 4:18
16 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
20 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below.
- KJV
- The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
- WEB
- the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
- ASV
- the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth;
- DARBY
- the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth;
- BLB
- the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, or the likeness of any fish that [is] in the water beneath the earth.
- ÅB
- eller av noe dyr som kryper på jorden, eller av noen fisk i vannet nedenfor jorden,
- OTB
- eller i form av noe kryp som beveger seg på bakken eller noen fisk i vannet under.
- B1930
- eller av noget dyr som kryper på jorden, eller av nogen fisk i vannet nedenfor jorden,