Deuteronomy 4:18-20

International Standard Version

¹⁸any creeping thing on the ground, or any fish in the sea.^[a] ¹⁹Do not gaze toward the heavens and observe the sun, the moon, the stars—the entire array of the sky—with the intent^[b] to worship and serve what the Lord your God gave every nation.^[c] ²⁰For the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace—out of Egypt—to be the people of his inheritance, as you are today.

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Footnotes

Deuteronomy 4:18 Lit. in the waters below ground
Deuteronomy 4:19 The Heb. lacks with the intent
Deuteronomy 4:19 I.e. as lights in the night sky; cf. Gen 1:14-18

Deuteronomy 4:18-20

New International Version

¹⁸or like any creature that moves along the ground or any fish in the waters below. ¹⁹And when you look up to the sky and see the sun,^(A) the moon and the stars^(B)—all the heavenly array^(C)—do not be enticed^(D) into bowing down to them and worshiping^(E) things the Lord your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. ²⁰But as for you, the Lord took you and brought you out of the iron-smelting furnace,^(F) out of Egypt,^(G) to be the people of his inheritance,^(H) as you now are.

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Deuteronomy 4:18-20

King James Version

¹⁸The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

¹⁹And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

²⁰But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

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