Leviticus Chapter 19 verse 4 Holy Bible
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.
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Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.
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Ye shall not turn unto idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.
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Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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Turn ye not to idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.
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"'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.
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`Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I `am' Jehovah your God.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - Turn ye not unto idols. The word used for idols, elilim, meaning nothings, is contrasted with Elohim, God. Psalm 115 exhibits this contrast in several of its particulars. Cf. St. Paul's statement, "We know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one" (1 Corinthians 8:4). "If the heart of man becomes benumbed to the use of images of false gods of any kind, he sinks down to the idols which are his ideals, and becomes as dumb and unspiritual as they are" (Lunge). The remainder of the verse forbids the transgression of the second commandment, as the earlier part of the verse forbids the transgression of the first commandment: nor make to yourselves molten gods, as was done by Jeroboam when he set up the calves (1 Kings 12:23).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Turn ye not unto idols.--As the Lord is their God, and there is no other God besides Him, the Israelites must never turn their affections nor address prayers or enquiries to idols. This part of the verse therefore corresponds with the first commandment of the Decalogue (Exodus 20:3). The expression here rendered "idols," which, apart from the Prophets and Hagiographa, only occurs once more (see Leviticus 26:1), denotes non-entities--nothings, and it is in allusion to this import of the word that the Apostle remarks, "We know that an idol is nothing in the world" (1Corinthians 8:4). According to the administrators of the law during the second Temple, the injunction here "turn not" means "face not," and forbids even the looking at or the examination of an idol.Nor make yourselves molten gods.--This part of the verse corresponds with the second commandment in the Decalogue (Exodus 20:4-6), though the phrase "molten gods" only occurs once more where the same prohibition is enforced (Exodus 34:17). . . .
