Deuteronomy 4:24

English Standard Version

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

King James Version
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Lexham English Bible
for Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

New Century Version
The Lord your God is a jealous God, like a fire that burns things up.

New English Translation
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God.

Amplified Bible
"For the LORD your God is a consuming fire; He is a jealous (impassioned) God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His].

New American Standard Bible
"For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For the Lorde thy God is a consuming fire, and a ielous God.

Legacy Standard Bible
For Yahweh your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Contemporary English Version
The Lord will be angry if you worship other gods, and he can be like a fire destroying everything in its path.

Complete Jewish Bible
For Adonai your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Darby Translation
For Jehovah thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Easy-to-Read Version
because the Lord your God hates for his people to worship other gods. And he can be like a fire that destroys!

George Lamsa Translation
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a zealous God.

Good News Translation
because the Lord your God is like a flaming fire; he tolerates no rivals.

Christian Standard Bible®
For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Literal Translation
For Jehovah your God is a consuming fire; He is a jealous God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the LORDE thy God is a consumynge fyre and a gelous God.

American Standard Version
For Jehovah thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Bible in Basic English
For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the Lorde thy God, is a consumyng fire, and a ielous God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

King James Version (1611)
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, euen a iealous God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

English Revised Version
For the LORD thy God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Berean Standard Bible
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thi Lord God is fier wastynge; `God, a feruent louyere.

Young's Literal Translation
for Jehovah thy God is a fire consuming -- a zealous God.

Update Bible Version
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.

World English Bible
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

New King James Version
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

New Living Translation
The Lord your God is a devouring fire; he is a jealous God.

New Life Bible
For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, a jealous God.

New Revised Standard
For the Lord your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
seeing that as for Yahweh thy God, a consuming fire, he is, - a jealous GOD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Because the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Revised Standard Version
For the LORD your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

Contextual Overview

¹ "And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord , the God of your fathers, is giving you. ² You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did at Baal-peor, for the Lord your God destroyed from among you all the men who followed the Baal of Peor. ⁴ But you who held fast to the Lord your God are all alive today. ⁵ See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. ⁶ Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.' ⁷ For what great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the Lord our God is to us, whenever we call upon him? ⁸ And what great nation is there, that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today? ⁹ "Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children— ¹⁰ how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy God: Deuteronomy 9:3, Deuteronomy 32:22, Exodus 24:17, Psalms 21:9, Isaiah 30:33, Isaiah 33:14, Jeremiah 21:12-14, Nahum 1:6, Zephaniah 1:18, Hebrews 12:29

a jealous God: Deuteronomy 6:15, Deuteronomy 29:20, Deuteronomy 32:16, Deuteronomy 32:21, Exodus 20:5, Exodus 34:14, Psalms 78:58, Isaiah 42:8, Nahum 1:2, Zephaniah 3:8, 1 Corinthians 10:22

Reciprocal: Numbers 25:11 - that I Deuteronomy 4:33 - General 1 Kings 14:22 - they provoked 2 Kings 13:3 - and he delivered Isaiah 46:10 - the end Ezekiel 1:27 - the appearance of fire Ezekiel 8:3 - provoketh Ezekiel 22:21 - and blow Ezekiel 36:5 - Surely 2 Corinthians 6:16 - what

Cross-References

Genesis 4:15
Then the Lord said to him, "Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold." And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.

Matthew 18:22
Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire,.... To his enemies; his wrath is like fire to burn up and destroy all that oppose him and break his commands, and especially idolaters; whose sin of all others is the most provoking to him, since it strikes at his being, his honour and glory; wherefore it follows,

even a jealous God; who is jealous of his honour in matters of worship, and will not suffer his glory to be given to another, nor his praise to graven images, without resenting it or punishing for it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:24. Thy God is a consuming fire — They had seen him on the mount as an unconsuming fire, while appearing to Moses, and giving the law; and they had seen him as a consuming fire in the case of Korah, Dathan, Abiram, and their company. They had, therefore, every good to expect from his approbation, and every evil to dread from his displeasure.