Deuteronomy 4:35

4:35 You have been taught that the Lord alone is God – there is no other besides him.

Deuteronomy 6:14

6:14 You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,

Deuteronomy 11:16

Exhortation to Instruction and Obedience

11:16 Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!

Deuteronomy 32:16

32:16 They made him jealous with other gods,

they enraged him with abhorrent idols.


tn Heb “from the gods.” The demonstrative pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

tn Heb “Watch yourselves lest your heart turns and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them.”

tc Heb “with strange (things).” The Vulgate actually supplies diis (“gods”).

tn Heb “abhorrent (things)” (cf. NRSV). A number of English versions understand this as referring to “idols” (NAB, NIV, NCV, CEV), while NLT supplies “acts.”