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Księga Powtórzonego Prawa 4:17

albo jakieś zwierzę żyjące na ziemi, albo jakiegoś ptaka szybującego po niebie,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Idolatry;   Obedience;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;   Birds;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Idol, Idolatry;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Idol, idolatry;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Idol, Idolatry;   Israel;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Polytheism;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Birds;   Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Figured Stone;   Heaven;   Likeness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fowl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Animals of the Bible;   Birds;   Ethics;  

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
Abo też na kształt jakiego ziemskiego źwierzęcia, także na podobieństwo ptastwa skrzdlastego latającego na powietrzu.
Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Albo kształtu jakiego zwierzęcia, które jest na ziemi, kształtu wszelkiego ptaka skrzydlastego, który lata po powietrzu;
Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Także w postaci jakiegokolwiek zwierzęcia, które jest na ziemi; w postaci jakiegokolwiek skrzydlatego ptaka, który lata pod niebem;
Biblia Tysiąclecia
Albo kształtu jakiego zwierzęcia, które jest na ziemi, kształtu wszelkiego ptaka skrzydlastego, który lata po powietrzu;
Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
W kształcie jakiegokolwiek zwierzęcia, które jest na ziemi, w kształcie wszelkiego ptaka skrzydlatego, który lata w powietrzu;
Biblia Warszawska
Czy w kształcie jakiegokolwiek zwierzęcia, które jest na ziemi, czy w kształcie jakiegokolwiek skrzydlatego ptaka, który lata pod niebem,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

In these verses there is an evident allusion to the idolatrous worship in Egypt. Among the Egyptians, almost everything in nature was the object of their idolatry; among beasts were oxen, heifers, sheep, goats, lions, dogs, monkeys, and cats; among birds, the ibis, crane, and hawk; among reptiles, the crocodile, serpents, frogs, flies, and beetles; all the fish of the Nile, and the Nile itself; besides the sun, moon, planets, stars, fire, light, air, darkness, and night. These are all included in the very circumstantial prohibition in the text, and very forcibly in the general terms of Exodus 20:4, the reason of which prohibition becomes self-evident, when the various objects of Egyptian idolatry are considered. Romans 1:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:30 - and I being Jeremiah 27:5 - and have

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth,.... As there are scarce any but the likeness of them has been made and worshipped, or the creatures themselves, as the ox by the Egyptians, the sheep by the Thebans, the goat by the Mendesians, and others by different people:

the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air; as the hawk, and the bird called Ibis, and another by the name of Cneph by the Egyptians, and the eagle by others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:17. The likeness of any beast, c. — Such as the Egyptian god Apis, who was worshipped under the form of a white bull the ibis and hawk, among the FOWLS, had also Divine honours paid to them; serpents and the crocodile among REPTILES; besides monkeys, dogs, cats, the scarabaeus, leeks, and onions! See this explained at large, Exodus 20:4; Exodus 20:4.


 
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