Exodus 34:14 Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

English Standard Version
(for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),

New American Standard Bible
-- for you shall not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God--

King James Bible
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are never to bow down to another god because Yahweh, being jealous by nature, is a jealous God."

International Standard Version
indeed, you are not to bow down in worship to any other god, because the LORD's name is Jealous—he's a jealous God—

American Standard Version
for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is Jealous, he is a jealous God.

Darby Bible Translation
For thou shalt worship no other God; for Jehovah Jealous is his name is a jealous God;

Young's Literal Translation
for ye do not bow yourselves to another god -- for Jehovah, whose name is Zealous, is a zealous God.

Cross References

Exodus 20:3
You shall have no other gods before me.

Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

Deuteronomy 4:24
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Joshua 24:19
And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

1 Kings 14:15
For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.

1 Kings 19:10
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

Ezekiel 23:25
And I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal furiously with you: they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

34:10-17 The Israelites are commanded to destroy every monument of idolatry, however curious or costly; to refuse all alliance, friendship, or marriage with idolaters, and all idolatrous feasts; and they were reminded not with idolaters, and all idolatrous feats; and they were reminded not to repeat the crime of making molten images. Jealously is called the rage of a man, Pr 6:34; but in God it is holy and just displeasure. Those cannot worship God aright, who do not worship him only.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

9, 10. he said, If now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord, let my Lord, I pray thee, go among us—On this proclamation, he, in the overflowing benevolence of s heart, founded an earnest petition for the Divine Presence being continued with the people; and God was pleased to give His favorable answer to Moses' intercession by a renewal of His promise under the form of a covenant, repeating the leading points that formed the conditions of the former national compact.