Parallel Verses

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.

New American Standard Bible

So you shall observe to do just as the Lord your God has commanded you; you shall not turn aside to the right or to the left.

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.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁמר 
Shamar 
Usage: 468

to do

Usage: 0

therefore as the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

צוה 
Tsavah 
Usage: 494

you ye shall not turn aside
שׂוּר סוּר 
Cuwr 
Usage: 301

to the right hand
ימין 
Yamiyn 
Usage: 139

References

Fausets

Context Readings

Basic Stipulations

31 But you stand here with me, and let me tell you all [of] the commandments and the rules and the regulations that you shall teach them, so that they may do [them] in the land that I [am] giving to them to take possession of it.' 32 "[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. 33 {In exactly the path} that Yahweh your God has commanded, you must go, so that you may live and {it will go well} for you and {you may live long} in the land that you will take possession of."

Cross References

Deuteronomy 17:20

[so as] not to exalt his heart above his countrymen and not to turn aside from the commandment to the right or to the left, so that {he may reign long over his kingdom}, he and his children in the midst of Israel."

Deuteronomy 28:14

And you [shall] not turn aside from {any of} the words that I [am] commanding you {today} [to the] right or left by going after other gods to serve them.

Joshua 1:7

Only be strong and very courageous {to observe diligently the whole law} that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn aside from it, [to] the right or left, so that you may succeed {wherever you go}.

Joshua 23:6

Be very strong to observe carefully all that is written in the scroll of the law of Moses so as not to turn aside from it, [to] the right or left,

Proverbs 4:27

Do not swerve right or left; remove your foot from evil.

Deuteronomy 4:1-2

"Now, Israel, listen to the rules and to the regulations that I [am] teaching you to do, in order that you may live and you may go [in] and you may take possession of the land that Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, [is] giving to you.

Deuteronomy 6:3

And you shall hear, Israel, and be careful to observe [these instructions], so that {it may go well for you} and that you may multiply greatly, [just] as Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, {promised} you, [in] a land with milk and honey.

Deuteronomy 6:25

And it shall be righteousness for us if we diligently observe [and] do all [of] this commandment {before} Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.'

Deuteronomy 8:1

"All of the commandments that I [am] commanding you today you must diligently observe, so that you may live and multiply, and you may go and take possession of the land that Yahweh swore to your ancestors.

Deuteronomy 11:32

and you must diligently {observe} all the rules and the regulations that I [am] setting {before you} {today}."

Deuteronomy 12:32

All of the things that I [am] commanding you, {you must diligently observe}; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it."

Deuteronomy 24:8

Be watchful {with respect to} [an] outbreak of [any] infectious skin disease, by being very careful and by acting according to all that the priests and the Levites have instructed you, [just] as I have commanded them, {so you shall diligently observe}.

2 Kings 21:8

I will not again make the feet of Israel wander from the land which I have given to their ancestors, if they only observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, as far as the law that Moses my servant commanded them."

Psalm 125:5

But regarding those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. Peace [be] upon Israel.

Ezekiel 37:24

" '"And my servant David [will be] king over them, and one shepherd will be for all of them, and in my regulations they will go, and my statutes they will observe, and they will do them.

2 Peter 2:21

For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known [it], to turn back from the holy commandment that had been delivered to them.

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