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Leviticus 19:4
4Ye shall not turn unto idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten 1gods: I am Jehovah your 2God.
Leviticus 19:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves any gods of cast metal: I am the Lord your God.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘Do not turn to idols, nor make for yourselves molded gods: I am the Lord your God.
Context of Leviticus 19:4
2Speak unto all the assembly of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Holy shall ye be, for I Jehovah your God am holy. 3Ye shall reverence every man his mother, and his father, and my sabbaths shall ye keep: I am Jehovah your God. Ye shall not turn unto idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God. 5And if ye sacrifice a sacrifice of peace-offering to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice it for your acceptance. 6On the day when ye sacrifice it shall it be eaten, and on the morrow; and that which remaineth until the third day shall be burned with fire.
Read all of Leviticus 19Leviticus 19:4 word by word
אַל־תִּפְנוּ֙ אֶל־הָ֣אֱלִילִ֔ים וֵֽאלֹהֵי֙ מַסֵּכָ֔ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשׂ֖וּ לָכֶ֑ם אֲנִ֖י יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Leviticus 19:4
- Leviticus 26:1Ye shall make yourselves no idols, neither rear you up for yourselves carved image, or statue, nor shall ye set up a figured stone in your land, to bow down unto it; for I am Jehovah your God.
- Exodus 20:3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
- 1 Corinthians 10:14Wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
- 1 John 5:21Children, keep yourselves from idols.
- Exodus 20:23Ye shall not make beside me gods of silver, and ye shall not make to you gods of gold.
- Exodus 32:4And he took [them] out of their hand, and fashioned it with a chisel and made of it a molten calf: and they said, This is thy god, Israel, who has brought thee up out of the land of Egypt!
- Exodus 34:17— Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods.
- Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh a graven or molten image, an abomination to Jehovah, a work of the craftsman's hand, and putteth it up secretly! And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Haggai 2:18Consider, I pray you, from this day and onward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider [it].
Commentaries on Leviticus 19:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Turn ye not unto idols - אלילם elilim, literally nothings; and to this St. Paul seems to allude 1 Corinthians 8:4, where he says, We know that an idol is Nothing in the world.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-372. Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel--Many of the laws enumerated in this chapter had been previously announced. As they were, however, of a general application, not suited to particular classes, but to the nation at large, so Moses seems, according to divine instructions, to have rehearsed them, perhaps on different occasions and to successive divisions of the people, till "all the congregation of the children of Israel" were…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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