◄ Deuteronomy 12:4 ►
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Good News Translation
"Do not worship the LORD your God in the way that these people worship their gods.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not worship the LORD your God in such ways.

Contemporary English Version
Don't worship the LORD your God in the way those nations worship their gods.

New American Bible
That is not how you are to act toward the LORD, your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall not do so to the Lord your God:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You shall not do so to the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 12:30,31 Beware lest thou imitate them, after they are destroyed at thy coming in, and lest thou seek after their ceremonies, saying: As these nations have worshipped their gods, so will I also worship. . . .

Deuteronomy 16:21,22 Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God: . . .

Deuteronomy 20:18 Lest they teach you to do all the abominations which they have done to their gods: and you should sin against the Lord your God.

Leviticus 20:23 Walk not after the laws of the nations, which I will cast out before you. For they have done all these things: and therefore I abhorred them.

Context
One Place for Worship
…3Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places. 4You shall not do so to the Lord your God:5But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:3
Overthrow their altars, and break down their statues, burn their groves with fire, and break their idols in pieces: destroy their names out of those places.

Deuteronomy 12:5
But you shall come to the place, which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, and to dwell in it:

1 Kings 14:15
And the Lord God shall strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water: and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river: because they have made to themselves groves, to provoke the Lord.

Deuteronomy 12:3
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