Deuteronomy 4:18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
Deuteronomy 4:18 in other translations
| BSB | or of any creature that crawls on the ground or fish that is in the waters below. |
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| WEB | the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; |
| ASV | the likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water under the earth; |
| YLT | a form of any creeping thing on the ground--a form of any fish which is in the waters under the earth; |
| DARBY | the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth; |
| BBE | Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth. |
| Webster | The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth: |
What does Deuteronomy 4:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 4:16-19
16-19. Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image--The things are here specified of which God prohibited any image or representation to be made for the purposes of worship; and, from the variety of details entered into, an idea may be formed of the extensive prevalence of idolatry in that age. In whatever way idolatry originated, whether from an intention to worship the true God through those things…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 4:1-23
The power and love of God to Israel are here made the ground and reason of a number of cautions and serious warnings; and although there is much reference to their national covenant, yet all may be applied to those who live under the gospel. What are laws made for but to be observed and obeyed? Our obedience as individuals cannot merit salvation; but it is the only evidence that we are partakers of the gift of God…
Deuteronomy 4:18 in the original Hebrew
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Context
- Deuteronomy 4:17
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
- Deuteronomy 4:18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
- Deuteronomy 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
Deuteronomy 4:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Figura de ningún animal que vaya arrastrando por la tierra, figura de pez alguno que haya en el agua debajo de la tierra: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | la figure de quelque reptile du sol, la figure de quelque poisson qui soit dans les eaux, au-dessous de la terre; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | das Abbild von irgend etwas, das sich auf dem Erdboden regt, das Abbild irgend eines Fisches, der im Wasser unter der Erde ist; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | atque reptilium, quæ moventur in terra, sive piscium qui sub terra morantur in aquis: |