Deuteronomy 12:4
Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 12:4 in other translations
| BSB | You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way. |
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| WEB | You shall not do so to the LORD your God. |
| ASV | Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God. |
| YLT | ‘Ye do not do so to Jehovah your God; |
| DARBY | Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God; |
| BBE | Do not so to the Lord your God. |
| Webster | Ye shall not do so to the LORD your God. |
What does Deuteronomy 12:4 mean?
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 12:1-4
Moses comes to the statutes he had to give in charge to Israel; and begins with such as relate to the worship of God. The Israelites are charged not to bring the rites and usages of idolaters into the worship of God; not under colour of making it better. We cannot serve God and mammon; nor worship the true God and idols; nor depend upon Christ Jesus and upon superstitious or self-righteous confidences.
Deuteronomy 12:4 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 12:4
- Leviticus 20:23
And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.
- Deuteronomy 20:18
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 12:30-31
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.
- Deuteronomy 16:21-22
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee. Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 12:3
And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
- Deuteronomy 12:4
Ye shall not do so unto the Lord your God.
- Deuteronomy 12:5
But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:
Deuteronomy 12:4 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No haréis así á Jehová vuestro Dios. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous ne ferez pas ainsi à l’ Éternel, votre Dieu; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Jehova, eurem Gott, sollt ihr nicht also tun; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non facietis ita Domino Deo vestro: |