Deuteronomy 16:22
Good News Translation
And do not set up any stone pillar for idol worship; the LORD hates them.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make to thyself a graven thing, nor the likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth.

Leviticus 26:1 I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

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Deuteronomy 12:31 Thou shalt not do in like manner to the Lord thy God. For they have done to their gods all the abominations which the Lord abhorreth, offering their sons and daughters, and burning them with fire.

Jeremiah 44:4 And I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising early, and sending, and saying: Do not commit this abominable thing, which I hate.

Zechariah 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his friend: and love not a false oath: for all these are the things that I hate, saith the Lord.

Revelation 2:6,15 But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaites, which I also hate. . . .

Context
Forbidden Forms of Worship
21Thou shalt plant no grove, nor any tree near the altar of the Lord thy God: 22Neither shalt thou make nor set up to thyself a statue: which things the Lord thy God hateth.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:1
I am the Lord your God. You shall not make to yourselves any idol or graven thing: neither shall you erect pillars, nor set up a remarkable stone in your land, to adore it. For I am the Lord your God.

1 Kings 14:23
For they also built them altars, and statues, and groves, upon every high hill, and under every green tree:

Deuteronomy 16:21
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