11:16 Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods! 1
13:6 Suppose your own full brother, 2 your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods 3 that neither you nor your ancestors 4 have previously known, 5
44:20 He feeds on ashes; 6
his deceived mind misleads him.
He cannot rescue himself,
nor does he say, ‘Is this not a false god I hold in my right hand?’ 7
1:28 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, 9 God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done. 10
1 tn Heb “Watch yourselves lest your heart turns and you turn aside and serve other gods and bow down to them.”
2 tn Heb “your brother, the son of your mother.” In a polygamous society it was not rare to have half brothers and sisters by way of a common father and different mothers.
3 tn In the Hebrew text these words are in the form of a brief quotation: “entice you secretly saying, ‘Let us go and serve other gods.’”
4 tn Heb “fathers” (also in v. 17).
5 tn Heb “which you have not known, you or your fathers.” (cf. KJV, ASV; on “fathers” cf. v. 18).
6 tn Or perhaps, “he eats on an ash heap.”
7 tn Heb “Is it not a lie in my right hand?”
8 tn Grk “heart.”
9 tn Grk “and just as they did not approve to have God in knowledge.”
10 tn Grk “the things that are improper.”