There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.
Parallel translations
- KJV There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.
- BSB There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.
- NKJV There shall be no foreign god among you; Nor shall you worship any foreign god.
- NASB “There shall be no strange god among you; Nor shall you worship a foreign god.
- NLT You must never have a foreign god; you must not bow down before a false god.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Isa 43:12I have declared, I have saved, and I have shown; and there was no strange god among you. Therefore you are my witnesses”, says Yahweh, “and I am God.
- Deut 32:12Yahweh alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
- 1 Cor 8:5–6For though there are things that are called “gods”, whether in the heavens or on earth; as there are many “gods” and many “lords”;
- Deut 6:14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;
- Exod 20:3–5“You shall have no other gods before me.
- Mal 2:11Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
- Ps 44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;
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