Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Exodus 34:14 in other translations
| BSB | For you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. |
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| WEB | for you shall worship no other god; for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. |
| ASV | (for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God); |
| YLT | for ye do not bow yourselves to another god--for Jehovah, whose name is Zealous, is a zealous God. |
| DARBY | For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah — Jealous is his name — is a jealous God; |
| BBE | For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another. |
| Webster | For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: |
What does Exodus 34:14 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 34:8-26
8-26. Moses bowed ... and worshipped--In the East, people bow the head to royalty, and are silent when it passes by, while in the West, they take off their hats and shout.
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 34:10-17
The Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with idolaters, and all idolatrous feasts; and they were reminded not with idolaters, and all idolatrous feats; and they were reminded not to repeat the crime of making molten images. Jealously is called the rage of a man, Pr 6:34; but in God it is holy and just displeasure…
Exodus 34:14 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 34:14
- Deuteronomy 4:24
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
- Deuteronomy 32:21
They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.
- 1 Corinthians 10:22
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
- Matthew 4:10
Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
- Nahum 1:2
God is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Lord revengeth, and is furious; the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
- Exodus 20:3-5
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 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: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Deuteronomy 29:20
The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.
- Deuteronomy 6:15
(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
- Exodus 34:5-7
And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord. And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
- Isaiah 57:15
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
- Isaiah 9:6
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- Deuteronomy 32:16
They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.
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- Exodus 34:13
But ye shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves:
- Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
- Exodus 34:15
Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go a whoring after their gods, and do sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee, and thou eat of his sacrifice;
Exodus 34:14 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque no te has de inclinar á dios ajeno; que Jehová, cuyo nombre es Celoso, Dios celoso es. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Car tu ne te prosterneras point devant un autre ✶dieu (car l’ Éternel dont le nom est Jaloux, est un ✶Dieu jaloux): |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | denn du sollst nicht einen anderen Gott anbeten; denn Jehova, dessen Name Eiferer ist, ist ein eifernder Gott; - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | noli adorare deum alienum. Dominus zelotes nomen ejus; Deus est æmulator. |