◄ Deuteronomy 4:16 ►
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Good News Translation
that you do not sin by making for yourselves an idol in any form at all--whether man or woman,

New Revised Standard Version
so that you do not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure—the likeness of male or female,

Contemporary English Version
not to commit the sin of worshiping idols. Don't make idols to be worshiped, whether they are shaped like men, women,

New American Bible
not to act corruptly by fashioning an idol for yourselves to represent any figure, whether it be the form of a man or of a woman,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,

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Deuteronomy 4:8,9 For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes? . . .

Exodus 20:4,5 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. . . .

Exodus 32:7 And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go, get thee down: thy people, which thou hast brought out of the land of Egypt, hath sinned.

Psalm 106:19,20 They made also a calf in Horeb: and they adored the graven thing. . . .

Romans 1:22-24 For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. . . .

Deuteronomy 4:23 Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:

Isaiah 40:18 To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make for him?

John 4:24 God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth.

Acts 17:29 Being therefore the offspring of God, we must not suppose the divinity to be like unto gold or silver or stone, the graving of art and device of man.

Acts 20:4,5 And there accompanied him Sopater, the son of Pyrrhus, of Berea: and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus: and Gaius of Derbe and Timothy: and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus. . . .

1 Timothy 1:17 Now to the king of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Context
Warning Against Idolatry
15Keep therefore your souls carefully. You saw not any similitude in the day that the Lord God spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire: 16Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,17The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly under heaven,…
Cross References
Romans 1:23
And they changed the glory of the incorruptible God into the likeness of the image of a corruptible man and of birds, and of fourfooted beasts and of creeping things.

Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.

Leviticus 26:1
I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 4:23
Beware lest thou ever forget the covenant of the Lord thy God, which he hath made with thee: and make to thyself a graven likeness of those things which the Lord hath forbid to be made:

Deuteronomy 4:25
If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and being deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath:

Deuteronomy 5:8
Thou shalt not make to thy self a graven thing, nor the likeness of any things, that are in heaven above, or that are in the earth beneath, or that abide in the waters under the earth.

Deuteronomy 5:9
Thou shalt not adore them, and thou shalt not serve them. For I am the Lord thy God, a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon their children unto the third and fourth generation, to them that hate me,

Deuteronomy 9:12
And said to me: Arise, and go down from hence quickly: for thy people, which thou hast brought out of Egypt, have quickly forsaken the way that thou hast shewn them, and have made to themselves a molten idol.

Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.

Deuteronomy 31:29
For I know that, after my death, you will do wickedly, and will quickly turn aside form the way that I have commanded you: and evils shall come upon you in the latter times, when you shall do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him by the works of your hands.

Deuteronomy 4:15
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