Deuteronomy 17:3
Good News Translation
by worshiping and serving other gods or the sun or the moon or the stars, contrary to the LORD's command.

New Revised Standard Version
by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden—

New American Bible
by going to serve other gods, by bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, contrary to my command;

Douay-Rheims Bible
So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:

the sun

Deuteronomy 4:19 Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

2 Kings 21:3 And he turned, and built up the high places, which Ezechias, his father, had destroyed: and he set up altars to Baal, and made groves, as Achab, the king of Israel, had done: and he adored all the host of heaven, and served them.

Job 31:26,27 If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness: . . .

Jeremiah 8:2 And they shall spread them abroad to the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom have walked, and whom they have sought, and adored: they shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Ezekiel 8:16 And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord, in their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun.

which

Jeremiah 7:22,23,31 For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offerings and sacrifices. . . .

Jeremiah 19:5 And they have built the high places of Baalim, to burn their children with fire for a holocaust to Baalim: which I did not command, nor speak of, neither did it once come into my mind.

Jeremiah 32:35 And they have built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Ennom, to consecrate their sons and their daughters to Moloch: which I commanded them not, neither entered it into my heart, that they should do this abomination, and cause Juda to sin.

Context
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2When there shall be found among you within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, man or woman that do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, and transgress his covenant, 3So as to go and serve strange gods, and adore them, the sun and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which I have not commanded:4And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is committed in Israel:…
Cross References
Genesis 2:1
So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them.

Exodus 22:20
He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:19
Lest perhaps lifting up thy eyes to heaven, thou see the sun and the moon, and all the stars of heaven, and being deceived by error thou adore and serve them, which the Lord thy God created for the service of all the nations, that are under heaven.

Deuteronomy 17:4
And this is told thee, and hearing it thou hast inquired diligently, and found it to be true, and that the abomination is committed in Israel:

Job 31:26
If I beheld the sun when it shined and the moon going in brightness:

Jeremiah 7:22
For I spoke not to your fathers, and I commanded them not, in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning the matter of burnt offerings and sacrifices.

Jeremiah 7:31
And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Ennom, to burn their sons, and their daughters in the fire: which I commanded not, nor thought on in my heart.

Ezekiel 8:16
And he brought me into the inner court of the house of the Lord: and behold at the door of the temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men having their backs towards the temple of the Lord, in their faces to the east: and they adored towards the rising of the sun.

Deuteronomy 17:2
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