Deuteronomy 5:7

You must worship only me; you must not worship any other god.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thou shalt have none other gods before me.

In Context

6‘I am Yahweh your God, the one you worship. I am the one who brought you out of the land of Egypt. I am the one who freed you from being slaves there.

8You must not carve/make for yourselves any idol that represents anything in the sky or anything that is on the ground or anything that swims in the water.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:3So you must worship only me; you must not worship any other god.

Deuteronomy 11:16“But I warn you, do not turn away from Yahweh our God and start to worship other gods,

Matthew 4:10But Jesus said to him, “ No, I will not worship you, Satan, so go away! It is written in the Scriptures, ‘It is the Lord your God whom you (pl) must worship, and you (pl) must serve only him!’”

1 John 5:21I say to you who are very dear to me, guard/keep yourselves from worshipping gods that have no real power!

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:7-23

6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them… Read the whole commentary →

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