Then God said, “Let there be lights in the sky. These lights will separate the days from the nights. These lights will be used for special signs and to show when special meetings [4] begin. And they will be used to show the days and years.
Jeremiah 10:2 - Easy To Read Version This is what the Lord says: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus says the Lord: Learn not the way of the [heathen] nations and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens, though they are dismayed at them, American Standard Version (1901) thus saith Jehovah, Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the nations are dismayed at them. Common English Bible The LORD proclaims: Don’t follow the ways of the nations or be troubled by signs in the sky, even though the nations are troubled by them. Catholic Public Domain Version Thus says the Lord: "Do not choose to learn according to the ways of the Gentiles. And do not be willing to dread the signs of heaven, which the Gentiles fear. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thus saith the Lord: Learn not according to the ways of the Gentiles: and be not afraid of the signs of heaven which the heathens fear: |
Then God said, “Let there be lights in the sky. These lights will separate the days from the nights. These lights will be used for special signs and to show when special meetings [4] begin. And they will be used to show the days and years.
You keep saying you want to be like the other nations. You live like the people in other nations. You serve pieces of wood and stone (idols)!’”
In the past, you lived in Egypt. You must not do the things that were done in that country! I am leading you to Canaan. You must not do the things that are done in that country! Don’t follow their customs.
I am forcing other people to leave that country. Why? Because those people did all of those sins! I hate those {sins}! So don’t live the way those people lived!
“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, don’t learn to do the terrible things the people of the other nations there do.
Then I said to you, ‘I am the Lord your God. You will live in the land of the Amorite people, but you must not worship their false gods.’ But you did not obey me.”