“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
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“You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.
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Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
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Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
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- Leviticus 19:4 “ ‘Don’t turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.
- Exodus 32:8 They have turned away quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molded calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’ ”
- Isaiah 46:6-7 Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down— yes, they worship. They bear it on their shoulder. They carry it, and set it in its place, and it stands there. It cannot move from its place. Yes, one may cry to it, yet it can not answer. It cannot save him out of his trouble.
- Jeremiah 10:14 Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Acts 17:29 Being then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.
- Acts 19:26 You see and hear that not at Ephesus alone, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that they are no gods that are made with hands.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain As gold, silver, brass, or anything that is molten:…
As gold, silver, brass, or anything that is molten: And herein is condemned all manner of idols, whatsoever they be made of.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Exo 34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Exo 34:17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
Ver. 17. No molten gods.] As the golden calf was. Goodly gods that are molten! Olim truncus eram. {a}
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{a} Horat.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Nor graven, nor any other, as it plainly appears…
Nor graven, nor any other, as it plainly appears both from the nature of the things, and from many parallel scriptures; but he mentions molten, because their late idol was of that kind.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. Made of…
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. Made of a melted liquid, whether gold, or silver, or brass, poured into a mould; and though graven images are not mentioned, they are included, a part being put for the whole, as appears not only from the injunction to break images in general, whether graven or molten, Exo 34:13 but from the second command, which expressly forbids the making and worshipping of them; but "molten" ones are particularly mentioned, because it is probable they were chiefly such the Canaanites worshipped, and especially, because the calf the Israelites had lately made and worshipped was a molten one.
but from the second command, which expressly forbids the making and worshipping of them; but "molten" ones are particularly mentioned, because it is probable they were chiefly such the Canaanites worshipped, and especially, because the calf the Israelites had lately made and worshipped was a molten one.
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exo 34:18The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep,.... Which was instituted at the time of their coming out of Egypt, and on that account, and then observed, Exo 12:15 and afterwards repeated, and the month expressed in which they were to keep it, and the reason of it, as it here follows; see Gill on Exo 13:15.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 17. Molten gods thou shalt not make thee] Cf.…
17. Molten gods thou shalt not make thee] Cf. Lev_19:4 (H) ‘And molten gods ye shall not make you’; also, for the general thought, Exo_20:23.
Vv. 18–26 agree, for the most part verbally, with Exo_13:13-14; Exo_23:12; Exo_23:15-19. The agreements and differences will be seen most clearly, if the two recensions are printed in parallel columns, with the differences in 34 marked either by italics or, where anything is omitted, by a space in the text.
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Exo_23:10-11. (The fallow year.)Exo_23:12. Six days shalt thou do thy work: but on the seventh day thou shalt desist: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy bondmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.Exo_34:21. Six days shalt thou labour; but on the seventh day thou shalt desist: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt desist.Exo_23:13. And in all things that I have said unto you take ye heed: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard upon thy mouth.Cf. Exo_34:14 a. For thou shalt not worship any other god.Exo_23:14. Three times (regâlim) thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.Exo_23:15 a. The feast of unleavened cakes shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened cakes, according as I commanded thee, at the appointed time in the month of Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt;Exo_34:18. The feast of unleavened cakes shalt thou keep. Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened cakes [Exo_13:6 a], as I commanded thee, at the appointed time in the month of Abib; for in the month of Abib thou camest out from Egypt.Exo_23:12. And thou shalt cause to pass over all that first openeth the womb unto Yahweh: and all that first openeth [the womb], the casting of beasts that thou shalt have, the males (shall be) Yahweh’s:Exo_34:19. All that first openeth the womb is mine: and all thy cattle that is male, that which first openeth [the womb] of ox and sheep:Exo_23:13. and all that which first openeth [the womb] of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb [or kid]; and if thou dost not redeem it, thou shalt break its neck: and all the first-born of men among thy sons thou shalt redeem.Exo_34:20. and that which first openeth [the womb] of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb [or kid]; and if thou dost not redeem it, thou shalt break its neck: all the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem.[Cf. Exo_22:29 b The first-born of thy sons thou shalt give unto me.]Exo_23:15 b … and none shall appear before me empty.And none shall appear before me empty.Exo_23:16 … and the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours which thou sowest in the field; and the feast of ingathering at the going out of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labours out of the field.Exo_34:22. And the feast of weeks thou shalt hold thee, the firstfruits of wheat harvest; and the feast of ingathering at the close of the year.Exo_23:17. Three times (pe‘âmim) in the year shall all thy males appear before (אל פני) the Lord Yahweh.Exo_34:23. Three times (pe‘âmim) in the year shall all thy males appear before (פני את) the Lord Yahweh, the God of Israel. 24. For I will dispossess nations before thee, and enlarge thy border; and no man shall desire thy land, when thou goest up to appear before (פניאת) Yahweh thy God, three times in the year.Exo_23:18. Thou shalt not sacrifice with leavened bread the blood of my sacrifice; neither shall there remain all night the fat of my feast until morning.Exo_34:25. Thou shalt not slaughter with leavened bread the blood of my sacrifice: neither shall there remain all night unto the morning the sacrifice of the feast of the passover.Exo_23:19. The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.Exo_34:26. The first of the firstfruits of thy ground thou shalt bring unto the house of Yahweh thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.These are evidently two recensions of one and the same collection of laws. Neither can well be throughout in its original order, and later additions have almost certainly been introduced into both, Exo_34:21 is obviously, where it stands, out of place, and is in a much better position in Exo_23:12, Exo_23:12 b and Exo_34:21 b look like explanatory additions made to the same original law by two different compilers (comp. Exo_20:11 with Deu_5:14 last clause, 15). Exo_23:13 (see note ad loc.) reads like the conclusion of some collection of laws, no longer in its original place. Exo_23:14; Exo_23:17 would hardly both stand in a document written by a single hand: probably Exo_23:17 has been introduced from Exo_34:23. In Exo_23:15 the words from Seven days to appear before me empty leave v. 16 without a verb to govern it (in the ||, Exo_34:22, there is a fresh verb); and have probably been introduced here from Exo_34:18, Exo_34:19-20 (to redeem) seems to interrupt the connexion where it stands, and to be interpolated between Exo_23:15 a and 15b: on the other hand, the first clause of Exo_34:19 seems in form more original than the first clause of Exo_13:12, Exo_34:24 is pretty clearly a reflection of the compiler. The two recensions are derived evidently from a common original; but we cannot in all cases say how the differences between them arose. For notes upon the passage as a whole, the reader is referred to chs. 13 and 23: it will be sufficient here to comment on the more important expressions peculiar to ch. 34.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (17) Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.—It is…
(17) Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.—It is just possible that the Israelites when they worshipped the golden calf may have conceived that they were not breaking the second commandment, which forbade the adoration of any “graven image.” An express law was therefore made against “molten images.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. An express…
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods. An express allusion to the recent sin of the golden calf.
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