Neither be ye idolaters Tyndale characteristically renders "worshippers of images" See Exodus 32:6.

to play Dancing (see Stanley and Alford in loc.) was probably included, as it formed part of the worship of the heathen deities. Cf. Horace, "Quam nee ferre pedem dedecuit choris.… sacro Dianae celebrant die." Odes, 2:12. 19. But the original Hebrew word has a wider signification, to sport, to laugh, exactly the same as the kindred word from which is derived Isaac, "he shall laugh," so named from Sarah's laughter. The same is the case with the Greek word παίζειν, used here.

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