Exodus 22:20
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.”
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“If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed.”
King James Version · Public Domain“He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah only, shall be utterly destroyed.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`He who is sacrificing to a god, save to Jehovah alone, is devoted.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 22:20 — 13 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:9Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Leviticus 19:33When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him.
- Numbers 21:3And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
- Numbers 25:2who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and bowed down to these gods.
- Numbers 25:7On seeing this, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, got up from the assembly, took a spear in his hand,
- Deuteronomy 10:18He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Deuteronomy 13:1If a prophet or dreamer of dreams arises among you and proclaims a sign or wonder to you,
- Deuteronomy 17:2If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
- Deuteronomy 18:20But if any prophet dares to speak a message in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or to speak in the name of other gods, that prophet must be put to death.”
- Deuteronomy 23:8The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 24:17Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
- Joshua 23:15But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.
- Malachi 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
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