Exodus 22:20

He that sacrificeth unto [any] god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

He that sacrificeth {H2076} unto any god {H430}, save {H1115} unto the LORD {H3068} only, he shall be utterly destroyed {H2763}.

"Anyone who sacrifices to any god other than ADONAI alone is to be completely destroyed.

If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.

He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto Jehovah only, shall be utterly destroyed.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • Deuteronomy 17:2 (6 votes)

    If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

  • Deuteronomy 17:5 (6 votes)

    Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, [even] that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.

  • Deuteronomy 18:20 (6 votes)

    But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die.

  • Numbers 25:7 (5 votes)

    And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw [it], he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;

  • Numbers 25:8 (5 votes)

    And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.

  • Deuteronomy 13:1 (5 votes)

    ¶ If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

  • Deuteronomy 13:15 (5 votes)

    Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that [is] therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.