Exodus 34:17 “You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.”

Exodus 34:17

You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

World English Bible

“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

American Standard Version

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thou shalt make thee no gods of metall.

Darby Translation

— Thou shalt make thyself no molten gods.

Young's Literal Translation

a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

Bible in Basic English

Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

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Cross references

“Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.”

Leviticus 19:4 Exodus 32:8 Jeremiah 10:14 Acts 17:29 Acts 19:26 Isaiah 46:6

Leviticus 19:4 · BSB

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.

Exodus 32:8 · BSB

How 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 brou…

Jeremiah 10:14 · BSB

Every 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 17:29 · BSB

Therefore, 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 19:26 · BSB

And you can see and hear that not only in Ephesus, but in nearly the whole province of Asia, this Paul has persuaded a great number of people to turn away. He says that man-made gods are no gods at all.

Isaiah 46:6 · BSB

They 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16And when you take some of their daughters as brides for your sons, their daughters will prostitute themselves to their gods and cause your sons to do the same.

18You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.

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