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Deuteronomy 5:7

'You shall have no other gods before Me.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commandments;   Decalogue;   God Continued...;   Idolatry;   Law;   Obedience;   Table;   Worship;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   Thompson Chain Reference - Commandments;   Decalogue, the;   Law;   Ten Commandments;   The Topic Concordance - Bowing;   Commandment;   God;   Hate;   Idolatry;   Love;   Mercy;   Obedience;   Service;   Worship;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy;   Execution;   Exodus;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Ethics;   Evil;   Idol, Idolatry;   Law;   Ten Commandments;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Ethics;   High Place;   Law, Ten Commandments, Torah;   Pentateuch;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Law;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Encampment at Sinai;   Events of the Encampment;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gods;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Decalogue;   Palmyra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall have no other gods before me.
King James Version
Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
Lexham English Bible
There shall not be for you other gods besides me.
English Standard Version
"‘You shall have no other gods before me.
New Century Version
"You must not have any other gods except me.
New English Translation
You must not have any other gods besides me.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall have no other gods besides Me.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt haue none other gods before my face.
Legacy Standard Bible
‘You shall have no other gods before Me.
Contemporary English Version
Do not worship any god except me.
Complete Jewish Bible
ב "‘You are to have no other gods before me.
Darby Translation
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Easy-to-Read Version
‘You must not worship any other gods except me.
George Lamsa Translation
You shall have no other gods besides me.
Good News Translation
"‘Worship no god but me.
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not have other gods besides me.
Literal Translation
You shall have no other gods before Me.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou shalt haue none other goddes in my sighte.
American Standard Version
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Bible in Basic English
You are to have no other gods but me.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt haue none other Gods in my presence.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt have no other gods before Me. Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, even any manner of likeness, of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt haue none other gods before me.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt have no other gods before my face.
English Revised Version
Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
Berean Standard Bible
You shall have no other gods before Me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt not haue alien Goddis in my siyt.
Young's Literal Translation
`Thou hast no other gods in My presence.
Update Bible Version
You shall have no other gods before me.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
World English Bible
You shall have no other gods before me.
New King James Version
"You shall have no other gods before Me.
New Living Translation
"You must not have any other god but me.
New Life Bible
‘Have no other gods except Me.
New Revised Standard
you shall have no other gods before me.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thou shalt not have other gods, besides me:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt not have strange gods in my sight.
Revised Standard Version
"'You shall have no other gods before me.
THE MESSAGE
No other gods, only me.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall have no other gods before Me.

Contextual Overview

6'I am the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. 7'You shall have no other gods before Me.8'You shall not make for yourself an idol [as an object to worship], or any likeness (form, manifestation) of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. 9'You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely mine], visiting (avenging) the iniquity (sin, guilt) of the fathers on the children [that is, calling the children to account for the sins of their fathers], to the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me, 10but showing graciousness and lovingkindness to thousands [of generations] of those who love Me and keep My commandments. 11'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain [that is, irreverently, in false affirmations or in ways that impugn the character of God]; for the LORD will not hold guiltless nor leave unpunished the one who takes His name in vain [disregarding its reverence and its power]. 12'Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy (set apart, dedicated to God), as the LORD your God commanded you. 13'Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14but the seventh day is a Sabbath [a day of rest dedicated] to the LORD your God; on that day you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock or the stranger who stays inside your [city] gates, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15'You shall remember [with thoughtful concern] that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 20:3, Matthew 4:10, John 5:23, 1 John 5:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - strange Exodus 34:14 - worship 2 Kings 17:12 - whereof Ezekiel 20:19 - the Lord Mark 12:32 - for 2 Corinthians 6:16 - what

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 20:0 and notes.

Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats them, with a certain measure of freedom and adaptation. Our Lord Mark 10:19 and Paul Ephesians 6:2-3 deal similarly with the same subject. Speaker and hearers recognized, however, a statutory and authoritative form of the laws in question, which, because it was familiar to both parties, needed not to be reproduced with verbal fidelity.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

The exhortation to observe the Sabbath and allow time of rest to servants (compare Exodus 23:12) is pointed by reminding the people that they too were formerly servants themselves. The bondage in Egypt and the deliverance from it are not assigned as grounds for the institution of the Sabbath, which is of far older date (see Genesis 2:3), but rather as suggesting motives for the religious observance of that institution. The Exodus was an entrance into rest from the toils of the house of bondage, and is thought actually to have occurred on the Sabbath day or “rest” day.

Deuteronomy 5:16

The blessing of general well-being here annexed to the keeping of the fifth commandment, is no real addition to the promise, but only an amplification of its expression.

Deuteronomy 5:21

The “field” is added to the list of objects specifically forbidden in the parallel passage Exodus 20:17. The addition seems very natural in one who was speaking with the partition of Canaan among his hearers directly in view.


 
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