Deuteronomy 7:25

KJV1611 – Modern English

The graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire: you shall not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be ensnared by it: for it is an abomination to the LORD your God.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You must burn the carved images of their gods in the fire. Do not covet the silver or gold on them, and do not take it for yourself, or you will be ensnared by it. For it is detestable to the LORD your God.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not sire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD thy God.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    The graven images{H6456} of their gods{H430} shall ye burn{H8313} with fire:{H784} thou shalt not covet{H2530} the silver{H3701} or the gold{H2091} that is on them, nor take{H3947} it unto thee, lest thou be snared{H3369} therein; for it is an abomination{H8441} to Jehovah{H3068} thy God.{H430}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    The graven images{H6456} of their gods{H430} shall ye burn{H8313}{(H8799)} with fire{H784}: thou shalt not desire{H2530}{(H8799)} the silver{H3701} or gold{H2091} that is on them, nor take{H3947}{(H8804)} it unto thee, lest thou be snared{H3369}{(H8735)} therein: for it is an abomination{H8441} to the LORD{H3068} thy God{H430}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    The images of their goddes thou shalt burne with fire, ad se that thou couet not the syluer or golde that is on them nor take it vnto the, lest thou be snared therewith. For it is an abhominacyon vnto the Lorde thy God.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    The ymages of their goddes shalt thou burne with fyre, & shalt not desyre the syluer or golde that is on them or to take it vnto the, that thou snare not thy self therin: for it is abhominacion vnto the LORDE yi God.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    The grauen images of their gods shall ye burne with fire, and couet not the siluer and golde, that is on them, nor take it vnto thee, least thou be snared therewith: for it is an abomination before the Lord thy God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    The graue images of their gods shalt thou burne with fire: and couet not the golde and siluer that is on them, nor take it vnto thee, lest thou be snared therin: for it is an abhomination before the Lorde thy God.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold [that is] on them, nor take [it] unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it [is] an abomination to the LORD thy God.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The engraved images of their gods shall you burn with fire: you shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it to you, lest you be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `The graven images of their gods ye do burn with fire; thou dost not desire the silver and gold on them, nor hast thou taken `it' to thyself, lest thou be snared by it, for the abomination of Jehovah thy God it `is';

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to Jehovah thy God.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You shall burn the engraved images of their gods with fire. You shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it for yourself, lest you be snared in it; for it is an abomination to Yahweh your God.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    You must burn the images of their gods, but do not covet the silver and gold that covers them so much that you take it for yourself and thus become ensnared by it; for it is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 32:20 : 20 He took the calf which they had made, burned it in the fire, and ground it to powder, scattered it on the water, and made the children of Israel drink it.
  • Deut 17:1 : 1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bull or sheep that has a blemish or any defect, for that is an abomination to the LORD your God.
  • 1 Chr 14:12 : 12 When they had left their gods there, David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire.
  • Josh 7:21 : 21 When I saw among the spoils a beautiful Babylonian garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
  • Deut 12:3 : 3 And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.
  • Deut 23:18 : 18 You shall not bring the hire of a prostitute, or the price of a dog, into the house of the LORD your God for any vow: for even both these are an abomination to the LORD your God.
  • Josh 7:1 : 1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass regarding the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
  • Deut 7:5 : 5 But thus shall you deal with them; you shall destroy their altars, and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their graven images with fire.
  • Deut 7:16 : 16 And you shall consume all the people which the LORD your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall have no pity on them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.
  • Isa 30:22 : 22 You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.
  • Zeph 1:3 : 3 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the sky, and the fish of the sea, and the stumbling blocks along with the wicked; and I will cut off man from the land, says the LORD.
  • 1 Tim 6:9-9 : 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil: which while some coveted after, they have strayed from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
  • Rev 17:5 : 5 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
  • Judg 8:24-27 : 24 And Gideon said to them, I would desire of you, that you would give me every man the earrings of his spoil. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) 25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they spread a garment, and each man threw the earrings of his spoil into it. 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; besides ornaments, and pendants, and purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were on their camels' necks. 27 And Gideon made an ephod and put it in his city, in Ophrah: and all Israel went there to worship it: which became a snare to Gideon and to his house.

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    4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

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    17 And you have seen their abominations, and their idols of wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

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    24 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.

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    3 And you shall tear down their altars, break their pillars, and burn their groves with fire; and you shall cut down the carved images of their gods, and obliterate their names from that place.

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    13 But you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and cut down their wooden images.

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    17 You shall make no molten gods for yourself.

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    22 Neither shall you set up for yourself any image, which the LORD your God hates.

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    7 You shall have no other gods before me.

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    52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molten images, and thoroughly demolish all their high places:

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    4 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

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    32 You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

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