Deuteronomy 16:22
New International Version
and do not erect a sacred stone, for these the LORD your God hates.

New Living Translation
And never set up sacred pillars for worship, for the LORD your God hates them.

English Standard Version
And you shall not set up a pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

Berean Standard Bible
and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

King James Bible
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

New King James Version
You shall not set up a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

New American Standard Bible
And you shall not set up for yourself a memorial stone, which the LORD your God hates.

NASB 1995
“You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the LORD your God hates.

NASB 1977
“Neither shall you set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the LORD your God hates.

Legacy Standard Bible
And you shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which Yahweh your God hates.

Amplified Bible
You shall not set up for yourself a sacred pillar which the LORD your God hates.

Christian Standard Bible
and do not set up a sacred pillar; the LORD your God hates them.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
and do not set up a sacred pillar; the LORD your God hates them.”

American Standard Version
Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which Jehovah thy God hateth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And you shall not set up as a monument for yourself anything that LORD JEHOVAH your God hates.”

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt not set up for thyself a pillar, which the Lord thy God hates.

Contemporary English Version
And don't set up a sacred stone! The LORD hates these things.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth.

English Revised Version
Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar; which the LORD thy God hateth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Never set up a sacred stone. These are things the LORD your God hates.

Good News Translation
And do not set up any stone pillar for idol worship; the LORD hates them.

International Standard Version
Furthermore, you are not to erect for yourselves a sacred stone pillar, because the LORD your God detests these things.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Neither shalt thou set thee up a pillar, which the LORD thy God hateth.

Literal Standard Version
and you do not raise up any standing image for yourself which your God YHWH is hating.”

Majority Standard Bible
and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

New American Bible
nor shall you erect a sacred pillar, such as the LORD, your God, hates.

NET Bible
You must not erect a sacred pillar, a thing the LORD your God detests.

New Revised Standard Version
nor shall you set up a stone pillar—things that the LORD your God hates.

New Heart English Bible
Neither shall you set yourself up a pillar; which the LORD your God hates.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

World English Bible
Neither shall you set yourself up a sacred stone which Yahweh your God hates.

Young's Literal Translation
and thou dost not raise up to thee any standing image which Jehovah thy God is hating.

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Context
Forbidden Forms of Worship
21Do not set up any wooden Asherah pole next to the altar you will build for the LORD your God, 22and do not set up for yourselves a sacred pillar, which the LORD your God hates.

Cross References
Leviticus 26:1
"You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to bow down to it. For I am the LORD your God.

1 Kings 14:23
They also built for themselves high places, sacred pillars, and Asherah poles on every high hill and under every green tree.


Treasury of Scripture

Neither shall you set you up any image; which the LORD your God hates.

image.

Exodus 20:4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.

which

Deuteronomy 12:31
Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

Jeremiah 44:4
Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.

Zechariah 8:17
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

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Deuteronomy 16
1. The feast of the Passover
9. of weeks
13. of tabernacles
16. Every male must offer, as he is able, at these three feasts
18. Of judges and justice
21. Asherah poles and images are forbidden














(22) Image.--Explained by Rashi of a single stone, whether statue or pillar.

Verse 22. - Any image; any pillar, etc. The Hebrew word (מַצֵבָה, mazzebah) denotes generally any pillar or stone that is set up, whether as a memorial (Genesis 28:18), or as a sign (Exodus 24:4; Isaiah 19:19), or for purposes of utility or ornament (Jeremiah 43:13). Here, as in other passages, it is a pillar or statue set up as an object of worship (cf. 2 Kings 3:2; 2 Kings 10:26; Hosea 10:1; Micah 5:12).



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
and do not
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

set up
תָקִ֥ים (ṯā·qîm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand

for yourselves
לְךָ֖ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

a sacred pillar,
מַצֵּבָ֑ה (maṣ·ṣê·ḇāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4676: Something stationed, a column, an idol

which
אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

the LORD
יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

hates.
שָׂנֵ֖א (śā·nê)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8130: To hate


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