Leviticus 19:4
¶ Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
¶ Turne ye not vnto idoles, nor make to your selues molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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- Leviticus 26:1Rank 1 from verse 4
1YE shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
1¶ Yee shall make *you no Idoles nor grauen Image, neither reare you vp a ‖standing image, neither shall yee set vp any ‖Image of stone in your land, to bow downe vnto it: For I am the LORD your God.
- Exodus 20:23Rank 2 from verse 4
- Exodus 34:17Rank 3 from verse 4
- Psalms 115:4–7Rank 4 from verse 4
4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men’s hands.
5They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
6They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not:
7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.
4*Their idoles are siluer and gold: the worke of mens hands.
5They haue mouths, but they speake not; eies haue they, but they see not.
6They haue eares, but they heare not: noses haue they, but they smell not.
7They haue hands, but they handle not, feete haue they, but they walke not: neither speake they through their throat.
- Deuteronomy 27:15Rank 5 from verse 4
15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
15Cursed be the man that maketh any grauen or molten image, an abomination vnto the LORD, the worke of the handes of the craftesman, and putteth it in a secret place: and all the people shall answere and say, Amen.
- 1 Corinthians 10:14Rank 6 from verse 4
- 1 John 5:21Rank 7 from verse 4
- Exodus 20:3–5Rank 8 from verse 4
3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
3Thou shalt haue no other Gods before me.
4*Thou shalt not make vnto thee any grauen Image, or any likenesse of any thing that is in heauen aboue, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water vnder the earth.
5Thou shalt not bow downe thy selfe to them, nor serue them: For I the LORD thy God am a iealous God, visiting the iniquitie of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the thirde and fourth generation of them that hate me:
- Psalms 96:5Rank 9 from verse 4
- Exodus 32:4Rank 10 from verse 4
4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
4*And hee receiued them at their hand, and fashioned it with a grauing toole, after hee had made it a molten calfe: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee vp out of the land of Egypt.
- Haggai 2:18Rank 11 from verse 4
18Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.
18Consider now from this day, and vpward from the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, euen from the day that the foundatio of the LORDs Temple was laid, consider it.
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Leviticus 19:4
Sense 1: To change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change. Sense 2: One’s time or occasion in an order or succession.
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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.
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False objects of worship or devotion; images treated as gods.
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To form, create, produce, cause, appoint, perform, or render into a stated condition.
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Sense 1: Melted or made liquid by heat. Sense 2: Cast or formed from melted material.
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The divine name of the living God, also named JEHOVAH.
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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.
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The one true God.
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3¶ Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
3¶ Yee shall feare euery man his mother, and his father, and keepe my Sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
4¶ Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
4¶ Turne ye not vnto idoles, nor make to your selues molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
Selected passage5¶ And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, ye shall offer it at your own will.
5¶ And if ye offer a sacrifice of peace offerings vnto the LORD, ye shall offer it, at your owne will.