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Deuteronomy 4:17

any kind of land animal, any bird that flies in the sky,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Idolatry;   Obedience;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beasts;   Birds;   Idolatry;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Idol, Idolatry;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - God;   Idol, idolatry;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Idol, Idolatry;   Israel;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Polytheism;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Idol;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Birds;   Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Figured Stone;   Heaven;   Likeness;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Quotations;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fowl;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Animals of the Bible;   Birds;   Ethics;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The likenesse of any maner of beast that is on the earth, or the likenesse of any maner fethered foule that fleeth in the ayre,
Easy-to-Read Version
or like an animal on the earth, or like a bird that flies in the sky.
Revised Standard Version
the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
World English Bible
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
King James Version (1611)
The likenesse of any beast that is on the earth, the likenes of any winged foule that flieth in the aire,
King James Version
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
or beest vpon earth, or fethered foule vnder the heauen,
American Standard Version
the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flieth in the heavens,
Bible in Basic English
Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,
Update Bible Version
the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,
Webster's Bible Translation
The likeness of any beast that [is] on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
New King James Version
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth or the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
Contemporary English Version
animals, birds,
Complete Jewish Bible
or a representation of any animal on earth, or a representation of any bird that flies in the air,
Darby Translation
the pattern of any beast that is on the earth, the pattern of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
Geneva Bible (1587)
The likenes of any beast that is on earth, or the likenesse of any fethered foule that flieth in the aire:
George Lamsa Translation
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flies in the air.
Good News Translation
animal or bird,
Amplified Bible
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, or of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
Hebrew Names Version
the likeness of any animal that is on the eretz, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
New Living Translation
an animal on the ground, a bird in the sky,
New Life Bible
or like an animal on the earth, or a bird with wings that flies in the sky,
New Revised Standard
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
the likeness of any beast of those that are on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird which flies under heaven,
English Revised Version
the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the heaven,
Berean Standard Bible
of any beast on the earth or bird that flies in the air,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
a model of any beast that is in the earth, - a mode of any winged bird, that flieth in the heavens;
Douay-Rheims Bible
The similitude of any beasts, that are upon the earth, or of birds, that fly under heaven,
Lexham English Bible
a replica of any animal that is upon the earth, a replica of any winged bird that flies in the air,
Literal Translation
the form of any animal in the earth; the form of any winged bird that flies in the heavens;
English Standard Version
the likeness of any animal that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged bird that flies in the air,
New American Standard Bible
a representation of any animal that is on the earth, a representation of any winged bird that flies in the sky,
New Century Version
of animals on earth or birds that fly in the air,
Christian Standard Bible®
or the form of any beast on the earth, any winged creature that flies in the sky,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
a licnesse of alle beestis that ben on erthe, ether of bridis fleynge vndur heuene,
Young's Literal Translation
a form of any beast which [is] in the earth -- a form of any winged bird which flieth in the heavens --

Contextual Overview

1 Now, Israel, pay attention to the statutes and ordinances I am about to teach you, so that you might live and go on to enter and take possession of the land that the Lord , the God of your ancestors, is giving you. 2 Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to you. 3 You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor. 4 But you who remained faithful to the Lord your God are still alive to this very day, every one of you. 5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in the land you are about to enter and possess. 6 So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, "Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people." 7 In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the Lord our God whenever we call on him? 8 And what other great nation has statutes and ordinances as just as this whole law that I am about to share with you today? 9 Again, however, pay very careful attention, lest you forget the things you have seen and disregard them for the rest of your life; instead teach them to your children and grandchildren. 10 You stood before the Lord your God at Horeb and he said to me, "Assemble the people before me so that I can tell them my commands. Then they will learn to revere me all the days they live in the land, and they will instruct their children."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

In these verses there is an evident allusion to the idolatrous worship in Egypt. Among the Egyptians, almost everything in nature was the object of their idolatry; among beasts were oxen, heifers, sheep, goats, lions, dogs, monkeys, and cats; among birds, the ibis, crane, and hawk; among reptiles, the crocodile, serpents, frogs, flies, and beetles; all the fish of the Nile, and the Nile itself; besides the sun, moon, planets, stars, fire, light, air, darkness, and night. These are all included in the very circumstantial prohibition in the text, and very forcibly in the general terms of Exodus 20:4, the reason of which prohibition becomes self-evident, when the various objects of Egyptian idolatry are considered. Romans 1:23

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:30 - and I being Jeremiah 27:5 - and have

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock—even the fattest of them. And the Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,
Genesis 4:11
So now, you are banished from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
Genesis 5:18
When Jared had lived 162 years, he became the father of Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
After he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God for 300 years, and he had other sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."
2 Samuel 18:18
Prior to this Absalom had set up a monument and dedicated it to himself in the King's Valley, reasoning "I have no son who will carry on my name." He named the monument after himself, and to this day it is known as Absalom's Memorial.
Psalms 49:11
Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves,
Daniel 4:30
The king uttered these words: "Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The likeness of any beast that is on the earth,.... As there are scarce any but the likeness of them has been made and worshipped, or the creatures themselves, as the ox by the Egyptians, the sheep by the Thebans, the goat by the Mendesians, and others by different people:

the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air; as the hawk, and the bird called Ibis, and another by the name of Cneph by the Egyptians, and the eagle by others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:17. The likeness of any beast, c. — Such as the Egyptian god Apis, who was worshipped under the form of a white bull the ibis and hawk, among the FOWLS, had also Divine honours paid to them; serpents and the crocodile among REPTILES; besides monkeys, dogs, cats, the scarabaeus, leeks, and onions! See this explained at large, Exodus 20:4; Exodus 20:4.


 
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