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Deuteronomy 4:25

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Threat and Blessing following Covenant Disobedience

4:25After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time,42 if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind43 and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him,44

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Footnotes

  1. 42 Heb “have grown old in the land,” i.e., been there for a long time.
  2. 43 Heb “a form of anything.” Cf. , , , “an idol.”
  3. 44 The infinitive construct is understood here as indicating the result, not the intention, of their actions.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, and you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

After you have had children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time—if you then become corrupt and make any kind of idol, doing evil in the eyes of the Lord your God and arousing his anger,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

“When you have children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, and if you act corruptly, make an idol in the form of anything, and do what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, angering him,

NLTNew Living Translation

“In the future, when you have children and grandchildren and have lived in the land a long time, do not corrupt yourselves by making idols of any kind. This is evil in the sight of the Lord your God and will arouse his anger.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“When you have had children and grandchildren and you have grown old in the land and you act corruptly and you make a divine image of the form of anything and you do evil in the eyes of Yahweh your God, thus provoking him to anger,

KJV 1900King James Version

When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger: