Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their libations of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.
Exodus 23:13 - Revised Standard Version Take heed to all that I have said to you; and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let such be heard out of your mouth. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In all I have said to you take heed; do not mention the name of other gods [either in blessing or cursing]; do not let such speech be heard from your mouth. American Standard Version (1901) 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 out of thy mouth. Common English Bible Be careful to obey everything that I have said to you. Don’t call on the names of other gods. Don’t even mention them. Catholic Public Domain Version Preserve all that I have said to you. And by the names of foreign gods you shall not swear; neither shall these be heard from your mouth. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Keep all things that I have said to you. And by the name of strange gods you shall not swear, neither shall it be heard out of your mouth. |
Those who choose another god multiply their sorrows; their libations of blood I will not pour out or take their names upon my lips.
I said, “I will guard my ways, that I may not sin with my tongue; I will bridle my mouth, so long as the wicked are in my presence.”
you shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works, but you shall utterly overthrow them and break their pillars in pieces.
Thus shall you say to them: “The gods who did not make the heavens and the earth shall perish from the earth and from under the heavens.”
For I will remove the names of the Baals from her mouth, and they shall be mentioned by name no more.
“And on that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will cut off the names of the idols from the land, so that they shall be remembered no more; and also I will remove from the land the prophets and the unclean spirit.
Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names to be changed), and Sibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
For it is a shame even to speak of the things that they do in secret;
you shall tear down their altars, and dash in pieces their pillars, and burn their Asherim with fire; you shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy their name out of that place.
“Therefore take good heed to yourselves. Since you saw no form on the day that the Lord spoke to you at Horeb out of the midst of the fire,
Take heed to yourselves, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a graven image in the form of anything which the Lord your God has forbidden you.
“Only take heed, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; make them known to your children and your children's children—
“Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the ordinances which the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it;
Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; hold to that, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers.
See to it that no one fail to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” spring up and cause trouble, and by it the many become defiled;
Take good care to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
that you may not be mixed with these nations left here among you, or make mention of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down yourselves to them,