Deuteronomy 4:24

Douay-Rheims Bible

Because the Lord thy 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.

English Standard Version
For the Lord your God is a consuming 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.

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, hear the commandments and judgments which I teach thee: that doing them, thou mayst live, and entering in mayst possess the land which the Lord the God of your fathers will give you. ² You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. ³ Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you. ⁴ But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this present day. ⁵ You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess: ⁶ And you shall observe, and fulfil them in practice. For this is your wisdom, and understanding in the sight of nations, that hearing all these precepts, they may say: Behold a wise and understanding people, a great nation. ⁷ Neither is there any other nation so great, that hath gods so nigh them, as our God is present to all our petitions. ⁸ For what other nation is there so renowned that hath ceremonies, and just judgments, and all the law, which I will set forth this day before our eyes? ⁹ Keep thyself therefore, and thy soul carefully. Forget not the words that thy eyes have seen, and let them not go out of thy heart all the days of thy life. Thou shalt teach them to thy sons and to thy grandsons, ¹⁰ From the day in which thou didst stand before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord spoke to me, saying: Call together the people unto me, that they may hear my words, and may learn to fear me all the time that they live on the earth, and may teach their children.

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
And the Lord said to him: No, it shall not so be: but whosoever shall kill Cain, shall be punished sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, that whosoever found him should not kill him.

Matthew 18:22
Jesus saith to him: I say not to thee, till seven times; but till seventy times 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.