Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish.

King James Version

And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

Holman Bible

If you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods to worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will perish.

International Standard Version

If you neglect the LORD your God, follow other gods, and serve and worship them, I testify to you today that you will certainly be destroyed.

A Conservative Version

And it shall be, if thou shall forget LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

American Standard Version

And it shall be, if thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

Amplified

And it shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will most certainly perish.

Bible in Basic English

And it is certain that if at any time you are turned away from the Lord your God, and go after other gods, to be their servants and to give them worship, destruction will overtake you.

Darby Translation

And it shall be, if thou do at all forget Jehovah thy God, and go after other gods, and serve them, and bow down to them, I testify against you this day that ye shall utterly perish.

Julia Smith Translation

And it was, if forgetting, thou shalt forget Jehovah thy God, and thou wentest after other gods, and served them and worshipped to them, I testified against you this day, that perishing, ye shall perish.

King James 2000

And it shall be, if you do at all forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

Lexham Expanded Bible

And it will happen [that] if you indeed forget Yahweh your God and you go after other gods and you serve them and you bow down before them, I warn you today that you will surely perish.

Modern King James verseion

And it shall be if you do at all forget Jehovah your God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you shall surely perish.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For if thou shalt forget the LORD thy God and shalt walk after strange gods and serve them and worship them, I testify unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish.

NET Bible

Now if you forget the Lord your God at all and follow other gods, worshiping and prostrating yourselves before them, I testify to you today that you will surely be annihilated.

New Heart English Bible

It shall be, if you shall forget the LORD your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

The Emphasized Bible

But it shall be if thou forget, Yahweh thy God, and go after ether gods, and serve them, and bow thyself down to them, I testify against you to-day, that ye shall perish:

Webster

And it shall be, if thou shalt at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

World English Bible

It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

Youngs Literal Translation

And it hath been -- if thou really forget Jehovah thy God, and hast gone after other gods, and served them, and bowed thyself to them, I have testified against you to-day that ye do utterly perish;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And it shall be, if thou do at all
שׁכח שׁכח 
Shakach 
Usage: 102

שׁכח שׁכח 
Shakach 
Usage: 102

the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

and walk
הלך 
Halak 
go, walk, come, ...away, ...along,
Usage: 1545

אחר 
'achar 
Usage: 488

אחר 
'acher 
Usage: 166

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

and serve
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

them, and worship
שׁחה 
Shachah 
Usage: 171

עוּד 
`uwd 
Usage: 45

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

References

Hastings

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations

18 Remember that Jehovah your God gives you the strength to make a living. That is how he keeps the promise he made to your fathers. 19 It shall come about if you ever forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. 20 Jehovah will destroy you, just as he destroyed the nations you fought. This is because you will not listen to him.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that you will soon utterly perish from off the land you possess the other side of the Jordan. You will not prolong your days upon it, but will be destroyed.

Deuteronomy 28:58-68

You might not faithfully obey every word of the teachings that are written in this book. You might not respect this glorious and awe inspiring name: JEHOVAH your God.

Deuteronomy 29:25-28

Then men will say: 'Because they forsook the covenant of Jehovah, the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 30:18-19

If you do, I tell you today that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live for a long time in the land that you are about to possess when you cross the Jordan River.

Joshua 23:13

Jehovah your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. This will last until none of you are left in this good land that Jehovah your God gave you.

1 Samuel 12:25

If you continue to sin, you and your king will be destroyed.

Daniel 9:2

It was the first year of his reign. I, Daniel, understood from The Books (Holy Scriptures) the number of the years in the word of Jehovah to Jeremiah the prophet. It was seventy years since the destruction of Jerusalem.

Amos 3:2

Of all the families of the earth I have chosen (known) only you. Therefore I will punish you for all your sins.

Zephaniah 1:18

Their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the Day of Jehovah's anger (rage) (wrath). He will devour all the nations by the fire of his zeal! He will exterminate all the inhabitants of the earth!

Zephaniah 3:6

I have destroyed nations! Their battlements are completely destroyed! I have made their streets waste so that none pass by. I destroyed the people and the cities so that there is no inhabitant.

Luke 12:47-48

The unfaithful servant who knew what his master wanted and did not do it will be beaten.

Luke 13:3

It does not! I tell you; if you do not turn from your sins, you will die as they did.

Luke 13:5

It does not! I tell you if you do not turn from your sins, you will die as they did.

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