Exodus 34:17

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“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 Domain
ASVPD

“Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 34:17 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 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.
  2. Exodus 23:14Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me.
  3. 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.’”
  4. Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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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