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New Century Version

Deuteronomy 5:7

"You must not have any other gods except 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 English Translation
You must not have any other gods besides me.
Amplified Bible
'You shall have no other gods before 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; I brought you out of the land of Egypt where you were slaves. 7 "You must not have any other gods except me. 8 "You must not make for yourselves any idols or anything to worship that looks like something in the sky above or on the earth below or in the water below the land. 9 You must not worship or serve any idol, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. If people sin against me and hate me, I will punish their children, even their grandchildren and great-grandchildren. 10 But I will be very kind for a thousand lifetimes to those who love me and obey my commands. 11 "You must not use the name of the Lord your God thoughtlessly, because the Lord will punish anyone who uses his name in this way. 12 "Keep the Sabbath as a holy day, as the Lord your God has commanded you. 13 You may work and get everything done during six days each week, 14 but the seventh day is a day of rest to honor the Lord your God. On that day no one may do any work: not you, your son or daughter, your male or female slaves, your ox, your donkey, or any of your animals, or the foreigners living in your cities. That way your servants may rest as you do. 15 Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by his great power and strength. So the Lord your God has commanded you to rest on 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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