the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Deuteronomy 6:14
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You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
You shall not go after other gods from the gods of the peoples who are all around you,
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—
Do not worship other gods as the people around you do,
You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,
"You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,
"You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,
Ye shall not walke after other gods, after any of the gods of the people which are round about you,
You shall not walk after other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,
Don't have anything to do with gods that are worshiped by the nations around you.
You are not to follow other gods, chosen from the gods of the peoples around you;
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;
You must not follow other gods. You must not follow the gods of the people who live around you.
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the people who are round about you,
Do not worship other gods, any of the gods of the peoples around you.
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,
And ye shal not folowe the other goddes of the nacions which are aboute you
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;
Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;
See that ye walke not after straunge gods, the gods of the nations which are about you:
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;
Yee shall not goe after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you:
Go ye not after other gods of the gods of the nations round about you;
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples which are round about you;
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.
Ye schulen not go aftir alien goddis, of alle hethen men that ben `in youre cumpas;
ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about you;
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which [are] around you;
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
"You must not worship any of the gods of neighboring nations,
Do not follow other gods, any of the gods of the people around you.
Do not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who are all around you,
Ye shall not go after other gods, - of the gods of the peoples who are surrounding you;
You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that are round about you:
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;
"You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
not go: Deuteronomy 8:19, Deuteronomy 11:28, Exodus 34:14-16, Jeremiah 25:6, 1 John 5:21
of the gods: Deuteronomy 13:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - strange Exodus 20:3 - General Judges 2:12 - other gods 2 Chronicles 28:6 - because Psalms 81:9 - strange Jeremiah 7:6 - neither walk Matthew 4:10 - Thou shalt 2 Corinthians 6:16 - what
Cross-References
But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark,
They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
who formerly were disobedient, when once the Divine longsuffering waited [fn] in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye shall not go after other gods,.... To serve and worship them, and swear by them; and which indeed are no gods, only nominal and fictitious ones; idols which are nothing in the world, and ought to have no veneration and adoration given them; to go after them is to worship them, and this is to depart from the true God, and go a whoring after false deities:
of the gods of the people which are round about you; the gods of the Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, Philistines, and Egyptians; all of which had their peculiar deities.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;
(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and
(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.
The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.
Deuteronomy 6:13
The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.
Deuteronomy 6:25
It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Deuteronomy 6:14. Ye shall not go after other gods — The object of religious worship among every people, whether that object be true or false, is ever considered as the pattern or exemplar to his worshippers. Christians are termed the followers of God; they take God for their pattern, and walk - act, as he does. Hence we see the meaning of the terms in this verse: Ye shall not go after - ye shall not take false gods for your patterns. The Canaanites, Greeks, Romans, c., were a most impure people, because the objects of their worship were impure, and they went after them, i. e., were like their gods. This serves to show us that such as our Redeemer is, such should we be and indeed this is the uniform language of God to man: Be ye holy, for I am holy, Leviticus 21:8; Be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect, Matthew 5:48.
