Deuteronomy 12:4

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Do not so to the Lord your God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 20:23 : 23 And do not keep the rules of the nations which I am driving out before you; for they did all these things, and for that reason my soul was turned against them.
  • Deut 12:30-31 : 30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did. 31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.
  • Deut 16:21-22 : 21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make. 22 You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.
  • Deut 20:18 : 18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 12:30-31
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    83%

    30 After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

    31 Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.

  • Exod 23:24
    82%

    24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

  • Lev 19:4
    82%

    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 12:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2 You are to give up to the curse all those places where the nations, whom you are driving out, gave worship to their gods, on the high mountains and the hills and under every green tree:

    3 Their altars and their pillars are to be broken down, and their holy trees burned with fire, and the images of their gods cut down; you are to take away their names out of that place.

  • Deut 6:14
    81%

    14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

  • Exod 34:13-15
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    80%

    13 But their altars are to be overturned and their pillars broken and their images cut down:

    14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Deut 16:21-22
    2 verses
    80%

    21 Let no holy tree of any sort be planted by the altar of the Lord your God which you will make.

    22 You are not to put up stone pillars, for they are hated by the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:17
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    17 Make for yourselves no gods of metal.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
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    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

  • Lev 26:1
    79%

    1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.

  • Judg 2:2
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    2 And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    78%

    3 You are to have no other gods but me.

    4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Deut 4:2
    78%

    2 Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

  • Exod 23:32
    78%

    32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Deut 7:25
    78%

    25 The images of their gods are to be burned with fire: have no desire for the gold and silver on them, and do not take it for yourselves, for it will be a danger to you: it is a thing disgusting to the Lord your God:

  • Deut 20:18
    78%

    18 So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    78%

    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • Deut 4:23
    77%

    23 Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God, which he has made with you, go out of your mind, or make for yourselves images of any sort, against the orders which the Lord your God has given you.

  • Ps 81:9
    77%

    9 There is to be no strange god among you; you are not to give worship to any other god.

  • Deut 5:7-8
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    7 You are to have no other gods but me.

    8 You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Josh 23:7
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    7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Deut 7:5
    77%

    5 But this is what you are to do to them: their altars are to be pulled down and their pillars broken, and their holy trees cut down and their images burned with fire.

  • Jer 25:6
    77%

    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

  • Deut 12:13
    77%

    13 Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:

  • Lev 22:24
    77%

    24 An animal which has its sex parts damaged or crushed or broken or cut, may not be offered to the Lord; such a thing may not be done anywhere in your land.

  • Deut 6:16
    76%

    16 Do not put the Lord your God to the test as you did in Massah.

  • Deut 4:28
    76%

    28 There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of seeing or hearing or taking food or smelling.

  • Deut 18:9
    76%

    9 When you have come into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, do not take as your example the disgusting ways of those nations.

  • Deut 12:5
    76%

    5 But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;

  • Exod 20:23
    76%

    23 Gods of silver and gods of gold you are not to make for yourselves.

  • Lev 18:3
    76%

    3 You may not do those things which were done in the land of Egypt where you were living; and you may not do those things which are done in the land of Canaan where I am taking you, or be guided in your behaviour by their rules.

  • Deut 27:5
    75%

    5 There you are to make an altar to the Lord your God, of stones on which no iron instrument has been used.

  • Deut 12:25
    75%

    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 17:1
    75%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Deut 4:15-16
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    75%

    15 So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:

    16 So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any living thing, male or female,

  • Deut 4:25
    75%

    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Exod 20:25
    75%

    25 And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.

  • Deut 5:12
    75%

    12 Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.

  • Lev 19:12
    75%

    12 And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 18:21
    75%

    21 And you may not make any of your children go through the fire as an offering to Molech, and you may not put shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Exod 22:20
    75%

    20 Complete destruction will come on any man who makes offerings to any other god but the Lord.

  • Isa 17:8
    74%

    8 He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.