Deuteronomy 12:4
New International Version
You must not worship the LORD your God in their way.

New Living Translation
“Do not worship the LORD your God in the way these pagan peoples worship their gods.

English Standard Version
You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way.

Berean Standard Bible
You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.

King James Bible
Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

New King James Version
You shall not worship the LORD your God with such things.

New American Standard Bible
You shall not act this way toward the LORD your God.

NASB 1995
“You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God.

NASB 1977
“You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not do thus toward Yahweh your God.

Amplified Bible
You shall not act like this toward the LORD your God.

Christian Standard Bible
Don’t worship the LORD your God this way.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Don’t worship the LORD your God this way.

American Standard Version
Ye shall not do so unto Jehovah your God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you shall not do so to LORD JEHOVAH your God.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Ye shall not do so to the Lord your God.

Contemporary English Version
Don't worship the LORD your God in the way those nations worship their gods.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall not do so to the Lord your God:

English Revised Version
Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never worship the LORD your God in the way they worship their gods.

Good News Translation
"Do not worship the LORD your God in the way that these people worship their gods.

International Standard Version
"You must not act like this with respect to the LORD your God.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.

Literal Standard Version
You do not do so to your God YHWH;

Majority Standard Bible
You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.

New American Bible
That is not how you are to act toward the LORD, your God.

NET Bible
You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall not worship the LORD your God in such ways.

New Heart English Bible
You shall not do so to the LORD your God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall not do so to the LORD your God.

World English Bible
You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

Young's Literal Translation
'Ye do not do so to Jehovah your God;

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Context
One Place for Worship
3Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place. 4You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way. 5Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 12:3
Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

Deuteronomy 12:5
Instead, you must seek the place the LORD your God will choose from among all your tribes to establish as a dwelling for His Name, and there you must go.

1 Kings 14:15
For the LORD will strike Israel as a reed is shaken in the water. He will uproot Israel from this good land that He gave their fathers, and He will scatter them beyond the Euphrates, because they have made their Asherah poles, provoking the LORD to anger.


Treasury of Scripture

You shall not do so to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 12:30,31
Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise…

Deuteronomy 16:21,22
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee…

Deuteronomy 20:18
That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your God.

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Deuteronomy 12
1. Monuments of idolatry to be destroyed
4. The place of God's service to be kept
15. Blood is forbidden
17. Holy things must be eaten in the holy place
19. The Levite is not to be forsaken
20. Blood is again forbidden
26. and holy things must be eaten in the holy place
29. Idolatry is not to be enquired after














(4) Ye shall not do so--i.e. shall not serve Him upon the high mountains, and hills, and under every green tree, after the manner of the nations.

Verses 4-6. - The heathen placed their altars and offered their worship wherever they thought fit, according to their notions of the deity and his service; but Israel was not to do so unto Jehovah their God: he himself would choose the places where he was to be worshipped, and there alone might they come with offering and service. As the revealed God - the God whose being and perfections had been made known, not by a vague revelation of him in nature merely, but expressly by his putting or recording his Name historically and locally among men (cf. Exodus 20:24) - so should there be a definite place chosen and appointed by him where he would come to receive the worship of his people, where he would record his Name, and where he would be known for a Refuge and a Helper to all who put their trust in him (Psalm 48:3; Psalm 76:1, etc.; Daniel 9:18). The Name of God is God himself as revealed; and he puts his Name on any place where he specially manifests himself as present (cf. 1 Kings 8:29), and which is consequently to be regarded as his habitation or dwelling-place. Hence the temple at Jerusalem was in later times known as the place of the Name of Jehovah (Isaiah 18:7), the dwelling-place of his glory (Psalm 26:8). But he is the God of the whole earth, and therefore, wherever he is pleased to reveal himself, in whatever place he makes his Name to be known, there he is to be worshipped. There is no reference in this passage to the temple at Jerusalem specially, as some have supposed; what is here enjoined is only a practical application of the Divine promise, that in all places where God would record his Name, there he would come to bless his people (Exodus 20:24). The reference here, therefore, is quite general, and applies to any place where, by the Divine appointment, the tabernacle might be set up and the worship of Jehovah instituted. Unto his habitation shall ye seek. To seek to any place means, primarily, to resort to it, to frequent it (cf. 2 Chronicles 1:5), but with the implied purpose of inquiring there for something, as for responses or oracles, when the place resorted to was that in which God had put his Name.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
You shall not
לֹֽא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

worship
תַעֲשׂ֣וּן (ṯa·‘ă·śūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 6213: To do, make

the LORD
לַיהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Preposition-l | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

in this way.
כֵּ֔ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus


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