You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
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You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn away to the right hand or to the left.
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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.
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(5-29) 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.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 5:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 4:27 Don’t turn to the right hand nor to the left. Remove your foot from evil.
- Joshua 23:6 “Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;
- Joshua 1:7 Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
- Deuteronomy 17:20 that his heart not be lifted up above his brothers, and that he not turn away 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 middle of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 28:14 and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
- Deuteronomy 8:1 You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Deuteronomy 11:32 You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
- Deuteronomy 12:32 Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
- Deuteronomy 24:8 Be careful in the plague of leprosy, that you observe diligently and do according to all that the Levitical priests teach you. As I commanded them, so you shall observe to do.
- Ezekiel 37:24 “ ‘ “My servant David will be king over them. They all will have one shepherd. They will also walk in my ordinances, and observe my statutes, and do them.
- Deuteronomy 4:1-2 Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you. You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.
- Deuteronomy 6:3 Hear therefore, Israel, and observe to do it, that it may be well with you, and that you may increase mightily, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised to you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
- Deuteronomy 6:25 It shall be righteousness to us, if we observe to do all these commandments before Yahweh our God, as he has commanded us.”
- Psalms 125:5 But as for those who turn away to their crooked ways, Yahweh will lead them away with the workers of iniquity. Peace be on Israel.
- 2 Peter 2:21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
- 2 Kings 21:8 I will not cause the feet of Israel to wander any more out of the land which I gave their fathers, if only they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Ye shall neither add nor diminish, Deut. 4:2.
Ye shall neither add nor diminish, Deut. 4:2.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Neither by superstitious additions to God’s commands, nor by…
Neither by superstitious additions to God’s commands, nor by a bold or profane rejection or contempt of any one of them.
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 32. Ye shall observe to do] He who…
Verse 32. Ye shall observe to do] He who marks not the word of God is never likely to fulfil the will of God.
Ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.] The way of truth and righteousness is a right line; a man must walk straight forward who wishes to go to glory; no crooked or devious path ever led to God or happiness.
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Left: a proverbial expression, to signify that no sort…
Left: a proverbial expression, to signify that no sort of transgression is to be allowed. (Menochius) --- It is of the same import as, You shall not add, &c., chap. iv. 2. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 32, 33. Exhortations to obey this new charge: a…
32, 33. Exhortations to obey this new charge: a number of characteristic deuteronomic formulas. Because of this and specially because of the phrase which Jehovah your God has commanded you, these verses are taken by some to be a later addition. Yet it was surely quite logical for the writer of the rest of the chapter to put the phrase in Moses’ mouth in Moab, because God had already at Ḥoreb charged him with these laws; the phrase does not imply their previous publication.
ye shall not turn aside, etc.] Deu_17:11; Deu_17:20, Deu_28:14, and in deuteronomic passages in other books; cp. Deu_9:2.
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the way which Jehovah your God has commanded you] that is through me and which I am now about to show you. The phrase is also found Deu_9:12; Deu_9:16, Deu_11:28, Deu_31:29 (all pl.), and in Deu_13:5 (Sg.). To walk in His ways, Deu_8:6 (Sg.), Deu_11:22 (Pl.). Buhl (Sozial. Verhältn. der Isr. 9) remarks on the suitability to nomads of this metaphor; but surely it was equally suitable for peasants. No inference as to date can therefore be drawn from it. Cp. in the N.T. ἡ ὀδός Act_9:2; Act_19:9; Act_19:23; Act_22:4, and the Ḳoran Sur. 1.
live] Deu_4:1.
may be well with you] Deu_5:16; Deu_5:29, Deu_4:40.
prolong … days] used both in Pl. here and in Deu_4:26 (cp. Deu_30:18), Deu_11:9, Deu_32:47, and in Sg. Deu_4:40; that thy days may be long, Deu_5:16, Deu_6:2, Deu_25:15; cp. Deu_22:7.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 32, 33. Moses winds up this part of…
Vers. 32, 33. Moses winds up this part of his discourse by exhorting them to observe and do all God"s commandments, not in any way departing from that course of action to which he had called them, that they might live, and it should be well with them in the land they were about to possess.
To the right hand or to the left. "This signifieth an exact care to walk in God"s Law, as in the highway, from which men may not turn aside, as in Deu_2:27" (Ainsworth); cf. Deu_17:11, 20 28:14; Jos_1:7; Pro_4:27; Isa_30:21. "To receive what God enjoins is only half obedience; it belongs thereto also that nothing be required beyond this. We must not desire to be more righteous than as we are taught by the Law" (Calvin)
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Moses continues to speak to the people of Israel.
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You will keep
Moses is giving a command to the people of Israel.
you will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left
This compares a person disobeying God to a person turning off of the correct path. AT: "you will not disobey him in any way" or "you will do everything he says" (See: Metaphor)
prolong your days
Long days are a metaphor for a long life. See how you translated this in Deuteronomy 4:40. AT: "be able to live a long time" (See: Metaphor)
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