Deuteronomy 17:3

and has gone and served other gods, and worshiped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded;

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WEBBE

and has gone and served other gods and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the stars of the sky, which I have not commanded,

BSB

and going to worship other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven— which I have forbidden—

KJV

And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

ASV

and hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, or the sun, or the moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded,

BBE

By becoming a servant of other gods and worshipping them or the sun or the moon or all the stars of heaven, against my orders;

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וַיֵּלֶךְ vai·ye·lekh and he has gone H1980 וַיַּעֲבֹד vai·ya·'a·vod and he has served H5647 אֱלֹהִים 'e·lo·him gods H430 אֲחֵרִים 'a·che·rim other H312 וַיִּשְׁתַּחוּ vai·yish·ta·chu and he has bowed down H7812 לָהֶם la·hem to (the) them H9038 וְלַשֶּׁמֶשׁ ve·la·she·mesh and to the sun H8121 אוֹ 'o or H176 לַיָּרֵחַ lai·ya·re·ach to the moon H3394 אוֹ 'o or H176 לְכָל־ le·khol to all H3605 צְבָא tze·va' [the] host of H6635 הַשָּׁמַיִם ha·sha·ma·yim the heavens H8064 אֲשֶׁר 'a·sher which H834 לֹא־ lo'- not H3808 צִוִּיתִי tzi·vi·ti I have commanded H6680

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 1–7

No creature which had any blemish was to be offered in sacrifice to God. We are thus called to remember the perfect, pure, and spotless sacrifice of Christ, and reminded to serve God with the best of our abilities, time, and possession, or our pretended obedience will be hateful to him. So great a punishment as death, so remarkable a death as stoning, must be inflicted on the Jewish idolater. Let all who in our day set up idols in their hearts, remember how God punished this crime in Israel.

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Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Hebrew and Greek data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0. Library: sources.