Devine Scripture

Exodus 20:4

Exodus chapter 20 · verse 4 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor 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:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Thou 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:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor 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:

Context

v.3Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

v.4This passage

v.5thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them; for I Jehovah thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation of them that hate me,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 10:8

    But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

  • Deuteronomy 4:15

    Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire;

  • Isaiah 42:8

    I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.

  • Isaiah 40:18

    To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

  • Ezekiel 8:10

    So I went in and saw; and behold, every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.

  • Exodus 32:8

    they have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed unto it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.