Exodus 34:17
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Exodus 34:17 in other translations
| BSB | You shall make no molten gods for yourselves. |
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| WEB | “You shall make no cast idols for yourselves. |
| ASV | Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. |
| YLT | a molten god thou dost not make to thyself. |
| DARBY | — Thou shalt make thyself no moltengods. |
| BBE | Make for yourselves no gods of metal. |
| Webster | Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. |
What does Exodus 34:17 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 34:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 34:17
- Leviticus 19:4
Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.
- 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 thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
- Isaiah 46:6-7
They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship. They bear him upon the shoulder, they carry him, and set him in his place, and he standeth; from his place shall he not remove: yea, one shall cry unto him, yet can he not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.
- Acts 17:29
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
- Acts 19:26
Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:
- Jeremiah 10:14
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
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Context
- Exodus 34:16
And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.
- Exodus 34:17
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
- Exodus 34:18
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, as I commanded thee, in the time of the month Abib: for in the month Abib thou camest out from Egypt.
Exodus 34:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No harás dioses de fundición para ti. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | – Tu ne te feras point de dieu de fonte. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Gegossene Götter sollst du dir nicht machen. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Deos conflatiles non facies tibi. |