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


In Context

13 He declared to you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; and he wrote them on two tables of stone.

14 Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.

15 Take therefore good heed to yourselves; for you saw no kind of form on the day that Yahweh spoke to you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire.

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

17 the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,

18 the likeness of anything that creeps on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water 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 Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:16lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the form of any figure, the pattern 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 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,