Verse 16

Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make for yourselves a carved image, the likeness of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Pass på at dere ikke lager noen skåret bilde etter en hvilken som helst figur, som for eksempel av en mann eller kvinne.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  for at dere ikke skal ødelegge dere selv og lage dere et utskåret bilde, noen form for skikkelse, likt en mann eller kvinne,

• Norsk King James

  Så dere ikke vil ødelegge dere selv og lage et bilde av noe som helst, en skikkelse av mann eller kvinne,

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  så dere ikke forderver dere selv ved å lage et utskåret bilde i form av noen skikkelse, enten det er i bildet av en mann eller en kvinne,

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  så dere ikke blir fordervet og lager for dere et utskåret bilde i noen form, liknende en mann eller en kvinne,

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  så dere ikke forderver dere selv og lager dere et utskåret bilde eller et bilde av noen slags form, lik en mann eller en kvinne,

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Pass på at dere ikke forderver dere selv og lager dere et utskåret bilde, en form eller avbildning av noe, enten av en mann eller en kvinne,

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  så dere ikke forderver dere selv og lager dere et utskåret bilde eller et bilde av noen slags form, lik en mann eller en kvinne,

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Pass på, så dere ikke ødelegger dere selv og lager en utskåret bildeform av noe slag, et avbildning av en mann eller kvinne,

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Do not act corruptly by making for yourselves a carved image in the form of any figure, whether male or female.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  så dere ikke forderver dere og lager dere et utskåret bilde i form av noen slags støpt figur, lik en mann eller en kvinne,

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  at I skulde ikke fordærve eder og gjøre eder et udskaaret Billede, som er en Lignelse efter noget Billede, en Mands eller en Qvindes Skikkelse,

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitu of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Så dere ikke ødelegger dere selv ved å lage et utskåret bilde av noen skikkelse, i likhet med en mann eller en kvinne,

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Så dere ikke ender opp med å lage et utskåret bilde av noe som helst form, skikkelsen av en mann eller en kvinne,

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  for at dere ikke skal forderve dere og lage et utskåret bilde i noen form, som et bilde av mann eller kvinne,

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For at dere ikke skal ødelegge dere selv og lage noen utskåret billedstatue i form av noe, i likhet med mann eller kvinne,

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Slik at dere ikke vender dere til onde veier og lager dere et bilde i form av noe levende, mann eller kvinne,

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  lest ye marre youre selues and make you grauen ymages after what soeuer likenesse it be: whether after the likenesse of ma or woma

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  and make you eny ymage, that is like a man, or woman,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  That ye corrupt not your selues, and make you a grauen image or representation of any figure: whither it be the likenes of male or female,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Lest ye marre your selues, & make you a grauen image, & picture of any maner of figure, whether it be the likenesse of man or woman.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Lest ye corrupt [yourselves], and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female --

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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,

• World English Bible (2000)

  Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I say this so you will not corrupt yourselves by making an image in the form of any kind of figure. This includes the likeness of a human male or female,

Referenced Verses

• Exod 20:4-5 : 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. 5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate Me.
• Exod 32:7 : 7 The LORD said to Moses, "Go down at once; for your people whom you brought out of the land of Egypt have corrupted themselves.
• Deut 4:23 : 23 Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make for yourselves a carved image, or the likeness of anything, which the LORD your God has forbidden you.
• Deut 5:8 : 8 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 waters beneath the earth:
• Acts 17:29 : 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and man's design.
• Acts 20:4-5 : 4 And Sopater of Berea accompanied him to Asia; and Aristarchus and Secundus of the Thessalonians, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy; and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia. 5 These men, going ahead, waited for us at Troas.
• Rom 1:22-24 : 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man, and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies among themselves,
• 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
• Ps 106:19-20 : 19 They made a calf in Horeb, and worshiped the molten image. 20 Thus they changed their glory into the likeness of an ox that eats grass.
• Isa 40:18 : 18 To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?
• John 4:24 : 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
• Deut 4:25 : 25 When you beget children, and children's children, and have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a carved image, or the likeness of anything, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD your God, to provoke him to anger:
• Deut 4:8-9 : 8 And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day? 9 Only take heed to yourself, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life: but teach them to your sons, and your sons' sons;