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Exodus 20:23

World English Bible

You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.

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Exodus 20:23 in other translations

Ye shall not make other gods with me; gods of silver, or gods of gold, ye shall not make unto you.

Exodus 20:23 · American Standard Version

Exodus 20:23 in context

  1. 21The people stayed at a distance, and Moses came near to the thick darkness where God was.
  2. 22Yahweh said to Moses, “This is what you shall tell the children of Israel: ‘You yourselves have seen that I have talked with you from heaven.
  3. 23You shall most certainly not make gods of silver or gods of gold for yourselves to be alongside me.
  4. 24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.
  5. 25If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of cut stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.