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Exodus 20:23

You are not to make any gods alongside Me; you are not to make for yourselves gods of silver or gold.

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ASV

Ye shall not make other gods with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you.

KJV

Ye shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall ye make unto you gods of gold.

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10 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
תַעֲשׂ֖וּןta.'a.Sunyou must make !H6213 →
אִתִּ֑י'i.Tiwith meH854 →
אֱלֹ֤הֵי'e.Lo.heigods ofH430 →
כֶ֙סֶף֙khe.sefsilverH3701 →
וֵאלֹהֵ֣יve.lo.Heiand gods ofH430 →
זָהָ֔בza.HavgoldH2091 →
לֹ֥אlo'notH3808 →
תַעֲשׂ֖וּta.'a.Suyou must makeH6213 →
לָכֶֽם׃la.Khemfor <the> yourselves

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Exodus 20:3You shall have no other gods before Me.Leviticus 19:4Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.Ezekiel 20:39And as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.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.’”2 Kings 17:33They worshiped the LORD, but they also served their own gods according to the customs of the nations from which they had been carried away.Zephaniah 1:5those who bow on the rooftops to worship the host of heaven, those who bow down and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom,Leviticus 26:1“You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.Deuteronomy 27:15‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’Judges 17:3And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”1 John 5:20–21And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true—in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.Exodus 20:3–5You shall have no other gods before Me.1 Corinthians 10:21–22You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.Revelation 22:15But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.Exodus 32:31So Moses returned to the LORD and said, “Oh, what a great sin these people have committed! They have made gods of gold for themselves.Daniel 3:1King Nebuchadnezzar made a golden statue sixty cubits high and six cubits wide, and he set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.Exodus 32:4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”Daniel 5:23Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised your gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.2 Kings 17:41So these nations worshiped the LORD but also served their idols, and to this day their children and grandchildren continue to do as their fathers did.

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About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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