New American Standard Bible 1995
Leviticus 19:4
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
2“Speak to all the congregation of the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy. 3Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall 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‘Now when you offer a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord, you shall offer it so that you may be accepted. 6It shall be eaten the same day you offer it, and the next day; but what remains 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 26:1‘You shall not make for yourselves idols, nor shall you set up for yourselves an image or a sacred pillar, nor shall you place a figured stone in your land to bow down to it; for I am the Lord your God.
- Exodus 20:3“You shall have no other gods before Me.
- 1 Corinthians 10:14Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.
- 1 John 5:21Little children, guard yourselves from idols.
- Exodus 20:23You shall not make other gods besides Me; gods of silver or gods of gold, you shall not make for yourselves.
- Exodus 32:4He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving 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.”
- Exodus 34:17You shall make for yourself no molten gods.
- Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes an idol or a molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’
- Haggai 2:18‘Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the Lord was founded, consider:
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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