Deuteronomy 6:14

Douay-Rheims Bible

You shall not go after the strange gods of all the nations, that are round about you:

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;

King James Version
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;

Lexham English Bible
You shall not go after other gods from the gods of the peoples who are all around you,

English Standard Version
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are around you—

New Century Version
Do not worship other gods as the people around you do,

New English Translation
You must not go after other gods, those of the surrounding peoples,

Amplified Bible
"You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall not walke after other gods, after any of the gods of the people which are round about you,

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not walk after other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

Contemporary English Version
Don't have anything to do with gods that are worshiped by the nations around you.

Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to follow other gods, chosen from the gods of the peoples around you;

Darby Translation
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;

Easy-to-Read Version
You must not follow other gods. You must not follow the gods of the people who live around you.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the people who are round about you,

Good News Translation
Do not worship other gods, any of the gods of the peoples around you.

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you,

Literal Translation
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye shal not folowe the other goddes of the nacions which are aboute you

American Standard Version
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;

Bible in Basic English
Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
See that ye walke not after straunge gods, the gods of the nations which are about you:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;

King James Version (1611)
Yee shall not goe after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Go ye not after other gods of the gods of the nations round about you;

English Revised Version
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples which are round about you;

Berean Standard Bible
Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye schulen not go aftir alien goddis, of alle hethen men that ben `in youre cumpas;

Young's Literal Translation
ye do not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who [are] round about you;

Update Bible Version
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which [are] around you;

World English Bible
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;

New King James Version
You shall not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples who are all around you

New Living Translation
"You must not worship any of the gods of neighboring nations,

New Life Bible
Do not follow other gods, any of the gods of the people around you.

New Revised Standard
Do not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who are all around you,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall not go after other gods, - of the gods of the peoples who are surrounding you;

Revised Standard Version
You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are round about you;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not follow other gods, any of the gods of the peoples who surround you,

Contextual Overview

⁴ Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord. ⁵ Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole strength. ⁶ And these words which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: ⁷ And thou shalt tell them to thy children, and thou shalt meditate upon them sitting in thy house, and walking on thy journey, sleeping and rising. ⁸ And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes. ⁹ And thou shalt write them in the entry, and on the doors of thy house. ¹⁰ And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land, for which he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: and shall have given thee great and goodly cities, which thou didst not build, ¹¹ Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant, ¹² And thou shalt have eaten and be full: ¹³ Take heed diligently lest thou forget the Lord, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and shalt serve him only, and thou shalt swear by his name.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

not go: Deuteronomy 8:19, Deuteronomy 11:28, Exodus 34:14-16, Jeremiah 25:6, 1 John 5:21

of the gods: Deuteronomy 13:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 35:2 - strange Exodus 20:3 - General Judges 2:12 - other gods 2 Chronicles 28:6 - because Psalms 81:9 - strange Jeremiah 7:6 - neither walk Matthew 4:10 - Thou shalt 2 Corinthians 6:16 - what

Cross-References

Exodus 2:3
And when she could hide him no longer, she took a basket made of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch: and put the little babe therein, and laid him in the sedges by the river’s brink,

Matthew 24:38
For, as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, even till that day in which Noe entered into the ark:

Luke 17:27
They did eat and drink, they married wives and were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all.

1 Peter 3:20
Which had been some time incredulous, when they waited for the patience of God in the days of Noe, when the ark was a building: wherein a few, that is, eight souls, were saved by water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall not go after other gods,.... To serve and worship them, and swear by them; and which indeed are no gods, only nominal and fictitious ones; idols which are nothing in the world, and ought to have no veneration and adoration given them; to go after them is to worship them, and this is to depart from the true God, and go a whoring after false deities:

of the gods of the people which are round about you; the gods of the Edomites, Ammonites, Moabites, Philistines, and Egyptians; all of which had their peculiar deities.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The Israelites were at the point of quitting a normal, life for a fixed and settled abode in the midst of other nations; they were exchanging a condition of comparative poverty for great and goodly cities, houses and vineyards. There was therefore before them a double danger;

(1) a God-forgetting worldliness, and

(2) a false tolerance of the idolatries practiced by those about to become their neighbors.

The former error Moses strives to guard against in the verses before us; the latter in Deuteronomy 7:1-11.

Deuteronomy 6:13

The command “to swear by His Name” is not inconsistent with the Lord’s injunction Matthew 5:34, “Swear not at all.” Moses refers to legal swearing, our Lord to swearing in common conversation. It is not the purpose of Moses to encourage the practice of taking oaths, but to forbid that, when taken, they should be taken in any other name than that of Israel’s God. The oath involves an invocation of Deity, and so a solemn recognition of Him whose Name is made use of in it. Hence, it comes especially within the scope of the commandment Moses is enforcing.

Deuteronomy 6:25

It shall be our righteousness - i. e., God will esteem us as righteous and deal with us accordingly. From the very beginning made Moses the whole righteousness of the Law to depend entirely on a right state of the heart, in one word, upon faith.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 6:14. Ye shall not go after other gods — The object of religious worship among every people, whether that object be true or false, is ever considered as the pattern or exemplar to his worshippers. Christians are termed the followers of God; they take God for their pattern, and walk - act, as he does. Hence we see the meaning of the terms in this verse: Ye shall not go after - ye shall not take false gods for your patterns. The Canaanites, Greeks, Romans, c., were a most impure people, because the objects of their worship were impure, and they went after them, i. e., were like their gods. This serves to show us that such as our Redeemer is, such should we be and indeed this is the uniform language of God to man: Be ye holy, for I am holy, Leviticus 21:8; Be ye perfect, as your Father who is in heaven is perfect, Matthew 5:48.