Deuteronomy 5:32
What does Deuteronomy 5:32 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 5:32 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Ye 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.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Ye 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Ye 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.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Take 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside--right or left;
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Keep therefore and do the things which the Lord God hath commanded you: you shall not go aside neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Take heed then to do as Jehovah yourGod hath commanded you: turn not aside to the right hand or to the left.
Context
v.31But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.
v.32This passage
v.33Ye shall walk in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 17:20
that his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left: to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he and his children, in the midst of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 12:32
What thing soever I command you, that shall ye observe to do: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
- Deuteronomy 28:14
and shalt not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
- Joshua 1:7
Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest.
- Deuteronomy 11:32
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.
- 2 Peter 2:21
For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
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