14 —for (A)you shall not worship any other god, because the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God—

Read full chapter

13-16 “Tear down their altars, smash their phallic pillars, chop down their fertility poles. Don’t worship any other god. God—his name is The-Jealous-One—is a jealous God. Be careful that you don’t make a covenant with the people who live in the land and take up with their sex-and-religion life, join them in meals at their altars, marry your sons to their women, women who take up with any convenient god or goddess and will get your sons to do the same thing.

Read full chapter

14 For you must not worship[a] any other god,[b] for the Lord, whose name[c] is Jealous, is a jealous God.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Exodus 34:14 tn Heb “bow down.”
  2. Exodus 34:14 sn In Exod 20:3 it was “gods.”
  3. Exodus 34:14 sn Here, too, the emphasis on God’s being a jealous God is repeated (see Exod 20:5). The use of “name” here is to stress that this is his nature, his character.

14 You must worship no other gods, for the Lord, whose very name is Jealous, is a God who is jealous about his relationship with you.

Read full chapter