Deuteronomy 10:17
10:17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awesome God who is unbiased and takes no bribe,
Deuteronomy 13:7
13:7 the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth 1 to the other).
Deuteronomy 17:3
17:3 by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun, 2 moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship. 3
Deuteronomy 20:18
20:18 so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship 4 their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 28:14
28:14 But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving 5 you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship 6 them.
Deuteronomy 31:18
31:18 But I will certainly 7 hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they 8 will have done by turning to other gods.
1 tn Or “land” (so NIV, NCV); the same Hebrew word can be translated “land” or “earth.”
2 tc The MT reads “and to the sun,” thus including the sun, the moon, and other heavenly spheres among the gods. However, Theodotion and Lucian read “or to the sun,” suggesting perhaps that the sun and the other heavenly bodies are not in the category of actual deities.
3 tn Heb “which I have not commanded you.” The words “to worship” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
4 tn Heb “to do according to all their abominations which they do for their gods.”
5 tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”
6 tn Heb “in order to serve.”
7 tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “certainly.”
8 tn Heb “he.” Smr, LXX, and the Targums read the plural “they.” See note on the first occurrence of “they” in v. 16.