Exodus 34:17
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.”
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BSBPD
“You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Exodus 34:17 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:4You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath.
- Exodus 23:14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
- Exodus 32:8How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
- Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
- Isaiah 46:6They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
- Jeremiah 10:14Every man is senseless and devoid of knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols. For his molten images are a fraud, and there is no breath in them.
- Acts 17:29Therefore, being offspring of God, we should not think that the Divine Being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by man’s skill and imagination.
- Acts 19:26And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.
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