Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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].
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.
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
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 5:32
Verse Info
Context Readings
Basic Stipulations
31 And thou, stand thou here with me and I will speak to thee all the commands and the laws and the judgments which thou shalt teach them: and they did it in the land I gave to them to possess it 32 And watch ye to do as Jehovah your God commanded right: ye shall not turn aside to the right and to the left. 33 In all the way that Jehovah your God commanded you, ye shall go, so that ye shall live and it be well to you, and ye prolonged the days upon the land which ye shall possess.
Phrases
Cross References
Deuteronomy 17:20
Not to lift up his head above his brethren, and not to turn away from the commands, to the right or to the left; so that he shall prolong the days upon his kingdom he, and his sons in the midst of Israel.
Deuteronomy 28:14
And thou shalt not turn aside from all the words which I command you this day, to the right and to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and be greatly active, to watch to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded thee: thou shalt not turn aside from it to the right and to the left, so that thou shalt be wise in all things where thou shalt go.
Joshua 23:6
And be strong greatly to watch and to do all written in the book of the law of Moses, so as not to turn away from it to the right or to the left;
Proverbs 4:27
Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil
Deuteronomy 4:1-2
And now Israel, hear to the laws and to the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye shall live and go in and possess the land which Jehovah the God of your fathers gave to you.
Deuteronomy 6:3
And hear, O Israel, and watch to do, that it shall be well to thee, and that ye shall multiply greatly as Jehovah the God of your fathers spake to thee, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 6:25
And it shall be justice to us when we shall watch to do all these commands before Jehovah our God as he commanded us.
Deuteronomy 8:1
All the commands which I command thee this day ye shall watch to do, so that ye shall live and multiply and go in and possess the land which Jehovah sware to your. fathers.
Deuteronomy 11:32
And watch ye to do all the laws and the judgments which I give before you this day.
Deuteronomy 12:32
Every word which I command you, ye shall watch to do it: thou shalt not add upon it, and thou shalt not take away from it
Deuteronomy 24:8
Watch in the stroke of leprosy to watch greatly, and to do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them ye shall watch to do.
2 Kings 21:8
And I will not add to move the foot of Israel from the land which I gave to their fathers; only if they will watch to do according to all I commanded them, and for all the instructions which Moses my servant commanded them.
Psalm 125:5
And those turning to their winding ways, Jehovah will cause them to go with those working iniquity: peace upon Israel.
Ezekiel 37:24
And my servant David a king over them; and one shepherd shall be to all of them: and in my judgments they shall go and they shall watch my laws and do them.
2 Peter 2:21
For it was better for them not to have known the way of justice, than, having known, to turn back from the holy command delivererd to them.