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Amplified
Therefore you shall pay attention and be careful to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left [deviating from My commandments].
New American Standard Bible
So you shall observe to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you;
King James Version
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Holman Bible
“Be careful to do as the Lord your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or the left.
International Standard Version
You must be careful to do what the LORD your God commanded you, turning neither to the left nor to the right.
A Conservative Version
Ye shall observe to do therefore as LORD your God has commanded you. Ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
American Standard Version
Ye shall observe to do therefore as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Bible in Basic English
Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.
Darby Translation
Take heed then to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: turn not aside to the right hand or to the left.
Julia Smith Translation
And watch ye to do as Jehovah your God commanded right: ye shall not turn aside to the right and to the left.
King James 2000
You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"[So] you must be careful to do [just] as Yahweh your God commanded you; you shall not turn [to the] right or [to the] left.
Modern King James verseion
And you shall be careful to do as Jehovah your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Take heed therefore that ye do as the LORD your God hath commanded you, and turn not aside: either to the righthand or to the left:
NET Bible
Be careful, therefore, to do exactly what the Lord your God has commanded you; do not turn right or left!
New Heart English Bible
You shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
The Emphasized Bible
So then ye must observe to do, as Yahweh your God hath commanded you, - ye must not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Webster
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
World English Bible
You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you: you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Youngs Literal Translation
And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside -- right or left;
Themes
Decision » Opposed to » Turning to the right or left
Steadfastness » Seven notable examples of » In moving forward toward the goal
Interlinear
Shamar
'elohiym
Tsavah
Cuwr
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Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 5:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Basic Stipulations
31 But as for you, stand here by Me, and I will tell you all the commandments and the statutes and the judgments which you shall teach them, so that they may obey them in the land which I give them to possess.’ 32 Therefore you shall pay attention and be careful to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left [deviating from My commandments]. 33 You shall walk [that is, live each and every day] in all the ways which the Lord your God has commanded you, so that you may live and so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long in the land which you will possess.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:20
so that his heart will not be lifted up above his countrymen [by a false sense of self-importance and self-reliance] and that he will not turn away (deviate) from the commandment, to the right or to the left, so that he and his sons may continue [to reign] for a long time in his kingdom in Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:14
Do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to follow and serve other gods.
Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and very courageous; be careful to do [everything] in accordance with the entire law which Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper and be successful wherever you go.
Joshua 23:6
Be steadfast and very determined to keep and to do everything that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so that you do not turn aside from it to the right or the left,
Proverbs 4:27
Do not turn away to the right nor to the left [where evil may lurk];
Turn your foot from [the path of] evil.
Deuteronomy 4:1-2
“Now, O Israel, listen and pay attention to the statutes and the judgments (God’s legal decisions) which I am teaching you to do, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Deuteronomy 6:3
Therefore listen, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly [in numbers], as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land
Deuteronomy 6:25
It will be [considered] righteousness for us [that is, right standing with God] if we are careful to observe all this commandment before the Lord our God—just as He has commanded us.
Deuteronomy 8:1
“Every commandment that I am commanding you today you shall be careful to do, so that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord swore [to give] to your fathers.
Deuteronomy 11:32
and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am setting before you today.
Deuteronomy 12:32
“Everything I command you, you shall be careful to do it; you shall not add to it nor take away from it.
Deuteronomy 24:8
“Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy, that you diligently observe and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you; just as I have commanded them, so you shall be careful to do.
2 Kings 21:8
And I will not make the feet of Israel wander anymore from the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will be careful to act in accordance with everything that I have commanded them, and with all the law that My servant Moses commanded them.”
Psalm 125:5
But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways [in unresponsiveness to God],
The Lord will lead them away with those who do evil.
Peace be upon Israel.
Ezekiel 37:24
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2 Peter 2:21
For it would have been better for them not to have [personally] known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to have turned back from the holy commandment [verbally] handed on to them.