Exodus 20:23
Good News Translation
Do not make for yourselves gods of silver or gold to be worshiped in addition to me.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not make gods of silver alongside me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Contemporary English Version
So you must never make idols of silver or gold to worship in place of me.

New American Bible
You shall not make alongside of me gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.

Exodus 20:3-5 Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. . . .

Exodus 32:1-4 And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him. . . .

1 Samuel 5:4,5 And the next day again, when they rose in the morning, they found Dagon lying upon his face on the earth before the ark of the Lord: and the head of Dagon, and both the palms of his hands, were cut off upon the threshold: . . .

2 Kings 17:33,41 And when they worshipped the Lord, they served also their own gods, according to the custom of the nations out of which they were brought to Samaria: . . .

Ezekiel 20:39 And as for you, O house of Israel: thus saith the Lord God: Walk ye every one after your idols, and serve them. But if in this also you hear me not, but defile my holy name any more with your gifts, and with your idols;

Ezekiel 43:8 They who have set their threshold by my threshold, and their posts by my posts: and there was but a wall between me, and them: and they profaned my holy name by the abominations which they committed: for which reason I consumed them in my wrath.

Daniel 5:4,23 They drank wine, and praised their gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, and of wood, and of stone. . . .

Zephaniah 1:5 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the tops of houses, and them that adore, and swear by the Lord, and swear by Melchom.

1 Corinthians 10:21,22 You cannot drink the chalice of the Lord and the chalice of devils: you cannot be partakers of the table of the Lord and of the table of devils. . . .

2 Corinthians 6:14-16 Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? . . .

Colossians 2:18,19 Let no man seduce you, willing in humility and religion of angels, walking in the things which he hath not seen, in vain puffed up by the sense of his flesh: . . .

1 John 5:20,21 And we know that the Son of God is come. And he hath given us understanding that we may know the true God and may be in his true Son. This is the true God and life eternal. . . .

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Context
Idolatry Forbidden
22And the Lord said to Moses: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: You have seen that I have spoken to you from heaven. 23You shall not make gods of silver, nor shall you make to yourselves gods of gold.
Cross References
Exodus 20:3
Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.

Exodus 32:1
And the people seeing that Moses delayed to come down from the mount, gathering together against Aaron, said: Arise, make us gods, that may go before us: For as to this Moses, the man that brought us out of the land of Egypt, we know not what has befallen him.

Exodus 32:2
And Aaron said to them: Take the golden earrings from the ears of your wives, and your sons and daughters, and bring them to me.

Exodus 32:31
And returning to the Lord, he said: I beseech thee: this people hath sinned a heinous sin, and they have made to themselves gods of gold: either forgive them this trespass,

Exodus 34:17
Thou shalt not make to thyself any molten gods.

Leviticus 19:4
Turn ye not to idols: nor make to yourselves molten gods. I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:15
Cursed be the man that maketh a graven and molten thing, the abomination of the Lord, the work of the hands of artificers, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say: Amen.

Deuteronomy 29:17
You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.

Judges 17:3
So he restored them to his mother, who said to him: I have consecrated and vowed this silver to the Lord, that my son may receive it at my hand, and make a graven and a molten god; so now I deliver it to thee.

Exodus 20:22
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