16lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,


In Context

13 And he declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to do, the ten words; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

14 And Jehovah commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that ye might do them in the land whither ye are passing over to possess it.

15 And take great heed to your souls (for ye saw no form on the day that Jehovah spoke to you in Horeb from the midst of the fire),

16 lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern of male or female,

17 the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,

18 the pattern of anything that creepeth on the ground, the pattern of any fish that is in the waters under the earth;

Deuteronomy 4:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16Lest ye corrupt [yourselves,] and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:16so that you do not become corrupt and make for yourselves an idol, an image of any shape, whether formed like a man or a woman,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:16Lest perhaps being deceived you might make you a graven similitude, or image of male or female,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:16lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make to you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make yourself an engraved image in the form of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16lest ye do corruptly, and have made to you a graven image, a similitude of any figure, a form of male or female —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:16Lest you corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,