Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And watch and do: for it is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who shall hear all these laws, and say, Only this great nation a wise and understanding people.
New American Standard Bible
So keep and do them,
King James Version
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Holman Bible
Carefully follow them, for this will show your wisdom and understanding in the eyes of the peoples. When they hear about all these statutes, they will say, ‘This great nation is indeed a wise and understanding people.’
International Standard Version
Observe them carefully, because this will show your wisdom and discernment in the eyes of people who'll listen to all these decrees. Then they'll say: "Surely this great nation is a wise and discerning people.'
A Conservative Version
Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
American Standard Version
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Amplified
So keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’
Bible in Basic English
So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.
Darby Translation
And ye shall keep and do them; for that will be your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Verily this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
King James 2000
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And {you must observe them diligently}, for that [is] your wisdom and your insight before the eyes of the people, who will hear all [of] these rules, and they will say, 'Surely this great nation [is] a wise and discerning people.'
Modern King James verseion
And you shall keep and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Keep them therefore and do them, for that is your wisdom and understanding in the sight of the nations: which, when they have heard all these ordinances, shall say, 'O what a wise and understanding people is this great nation.'
NET Bible
So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, "Indeed, this great nation is a very wise people."
New Heart English Bible
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore shall ye observe, and do them , for that, will be your wisdom, and discernment, in the eyes of the peoples, - who will hear all these statutes, and will say - Nevertheless, a people wise and discerning, is this great nation.
Webster
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which will hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
World English Bible
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who shall hear all these statutes, and say, "Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people."
Youngs Literal Translation
and ye have kept and done them (for it is your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding is this great nation.
Themes
Church of israel » Established by God
the Law of moses » All israelites required » To observe
Topics
Interlinear
Shamar
`ayin
Shama`
Choq
Gadowl
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 4:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Call To Obedience
5 See, I taught you laws and judgments as Jehovah my God commanded me, to do thus in the midst of the land where ye are going there to possess it 6 And watch and do: for it is your wisdom and your understanding before the eyes of the peoples who shall hear all these laws, and say, Only this great nation a wise and understanding people. 7 For what great nation to whom God being near to it as Jehovah our God in all our calling to him?
Cross References
Job 28:28
And he will say to man, Behold, the fear of Jehovah, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: the foolish despised wisdom and instruction.
Psalm 19:7
The law of Jehovah is blameless, turning back the soul; the testimonies of Jehovah being faithful, making wise the simple.
Psalm 111:10
The beginning of wisdom is the fear of Jehovah: a good understanding to all doing them: his praise stands forever.
2 Timothy 3:15
And that from infancy thou hast known the holy letters, able to render thee wise to salvation by faith which in Christ Jesus.
Deuteronomy 30:19-20
I called to witness against you this day the heavens and the earth, the life and the death I gave before thee, the blessing and the curse: and choose upon life, so that thou shalt live, thou and thy seed:
1 Kings 4:34
And there will come from all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who heard his wisdom.
1 Kings 10:6-9
And she will say to the king, The word was truth which I heard in my land concerning thy words, and concerning thy wisdom.
Psalm 119:98-100
Above mine enemies thou wilt make me wise from thy commands, for It is forever to me.
Proverbs 14:8
The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: and the folly of the foolish is deceit
Jeremiah 8:9
The wise were ashamed, they were confounded, and they will be taken: behold, they rejected in the word of Jehovah; and what wisdom to them?
Daniel 1:20
And every word of the wisdom of understanding which the king sought from them, and he will find them ten hands over all the sacred scribes, the enchanters which were in all his kingdom.
Daniel 4:9
O Belteshazzar, leader of the sacred scribes, for I knew that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and my secret pressed not upon thee; the visions of my dream that I saw, and its interpretation, say thou.
Daniel 5:11-16
There is a man in thy kingdom that the spirit of the holy gods in him; and in the days of thy father, his light and his understanding and wisdom according to the wisdom of the gods was found in him; and king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king thy father, set him up leader of the sacred scribes, the enchanters, the Chaldeans, the diviners:
Zechariah 8:20-23
Thus said Jehovah of armies: Yet that peoples shall come, and the inhabitants of many cities:
Malachi 3:12
And all nations pronounced you happy, for ye shall be a land of delight, said Jehovah of armies.
James 3:13
Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom.