Deuteronomy 16:21
Verse 21 of 22. The 16th of 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, in The Law.
17Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.
18Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
19Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
21Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
22Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.
- Pray with us todayToday's prayer
Deuteronomy 16:21 in the World English Bible
You shall not plant for yourselves an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the LORD your God’s altar, which you shall make for yourselves.Read Deuteronomy 16:21 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 16:21
Care taken for the preventing of all conformity to the idolatrous customs of the heathen, v. 21, 22. They must not only not join with the idolaters in their worships, not visit their groves, nor bow before the images which they had set up, but, 1. They must not plant a grove, nor so much as a tree, near God's altar lest they should make it look like the altars of the false gods.
Pray Deuteronomy 16:21 with someone reading it aloud.
Start praying with Pray.com- Pray with us todayToday's prayer
King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.