Deuteronomy 12:8
What does Deuteronomy 12:8 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 12:8 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;
KJV
King James Version · 1611Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949You are not to do things then in the way in which we now do them here, every man as it seems right to him:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Ye do not do according to all that we are doing here to-day, each anything that is right in his own eyes,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752You shall not do there the things we do here this day, every man that which seemeth good to himself.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Ye shall not do after all that we do here this day, each one whatever is right in his own eyes.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
- Proverbs 21:2
Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the hearts.
- Acts 7:42
But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
- Amos 5:25
Did ye bring unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
- Numbers 15:39
and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of Jehovah, and do them; and that ye follow not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to play the harlot;
- Judges 21:25
In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
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