Deuteronomy 4:16
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
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Gill's Exposition
Lest ye corrupt yourselves,.... And not themselves only, but the word and worship of God, by idolatry, than which nothing is more corrupting and defiling, nor more abominable to God:
and make you a…
This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
lest ye corrupt yourselves Act perniciously.
a graven image Heb. pesel: any idol carved in stone or wood.
figure Heb. semel, only here; Eze 8:3; Eze 8:5; 2Ch 33:7; 2Ch 33:15, the Phoen. apparently for…
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