Exodus 22:20
He who is sacrificing to a god, except to YHWH alone, is devoted.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
In Context
19Whoever lies with a beast is certainly put to death.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:33And when a sojourner sojourns with you in your land, you do not oppress him;
Numbers 25:2and they call for the people to the sacrifices of their gods, and the people eat and bow themselves to their gods,
Deuteronomy 10:18He is doing the judgment of fatherless and widow, and loving the sojourner, to give bread and raiment to him.
Deuteronomy 17:2When there is found in your midst, in one of your cities which your God YHWH is giving to you, a man or a woman who does evil in the eyes of your God YHWH by transgressing His covenant,
Deuteronomy 23:8sons who are begotten of them, a third generation of them, enter into the assembly of YHWH.
Joshua 23:15And it has been, as there has come on you all the good thing which your God YHWH has spoken to you, so YHWH brings on you the whole of the evil thing, until His destroying you from off this good ground which your God YHWH has given to you;
Matthew Henry on Exodus 22:17-25
16 And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife. 17 If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins. 18 Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. 19 Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death. 20 He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only, he shall be utterly destroyed. 21 Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. 22… Read the whole commentary →