Deuteronomy 11:16

Easy-to-Read Version

"He says, ‘Be careful! Don't be fooled. Don't turn away from me to serve other gods and to bow down to them.'

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods.

Hebrew Names Version
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

King James Version
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Lexham English Bible
Take care so that your heart is not easily deceived, and you turn away, and you serve other gods, and you bow down to them.

English Standard Version
Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;

New Century Version
Be careful, or you will be fooled and will turn away to serve and worship other gods.

New English Translation
Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!

Amplified Bible
"Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away [from the LORD] and serve other gods and worship them,

New American Standard Bible
"Beware that your hearts are not easily deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods, and worship them.

Geneva Bible (1587)
But beware lest your heart deceiue you, and lest yee turne aside, and serue other gods, and worship them,

Legacy Standard Bible
Beware lest your hearts be deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them,

Contemporary English Version
But watch out! You will be tempted to turn your backs on the Lord . And if you worship other gods,

Complete Jewish Bible
But be careful not to let yourselves be seduced, so that you turn aside, serving other gods and worshipping them.

Darby Translation
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them,

George Lamsa Translation
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;

Good News Translation
Do not let yourselves be led away from the Lord to worship and serve other gods.

Literal Translation
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart not be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But bewarre, yt youre hert be not disceaued, that ye go asyde, & serue other goddes, & worshipe them,

American Standard Version
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Bible in Basic English
But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
But beware that your heart deceaue you not, and ye turne asyde, and serue straunge gods, and worship them:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

King James Version (1611)
Take heede to your selues, that your heart be not deceiued, and ye turne aside, and serue other gods, and worship them:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
take heed to thyself that thy heart be not puffed up, and ye transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:

English Revised Version
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Berean Standard Bible
But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be ye war, lest perauenture youre herte be disseyued, and ye go awei fro the Lord, and serue alien goddis, and worschipe hem;

Young's Literal Translation
`Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,

Update Bible Version
Take heed to yourselves, or else your heart will be deceived, and you will turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Webster's Bible Translation
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

World English Bible
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

New King James Version
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

New Living Translation
"But be careful. Don't let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the Lord and serve and worship other gods.

New Life Bible
Be careful not to let your hearts be fooled so you turn away and work for other gods and worship them.

New Revised Standard
Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be befooled, - and ye turn aside and serve other gods, and bow down to them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:

Revised Standard Version
Take heed lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

THE MESSAGE
But be vigilant, lest you be seduced away and end up serving and worshiping other gods and God erupts in anger and shuts down Heaven so there's no rain and nothing grows in the fields, and in no time at all you're starved out—not a trace of you left on the good land that God is giving you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

Contextual Overview

⁸ "So you must obey every command I tell you today. Then you will be strong. And you will be able to go across the Jordan River and take the land that you are ready to enter. ⁹ Then you will live a long life in that country. The Lord promised to give that land to your ancestors and all their descendants. It is a land filled with many good things. ¹⁰ The land that you will get is not like the land of Egypt that you came from. In Egypt you planted your seeds and used your feet to pump water from the canals to water your fields like a vegetable garden. ¹¹ But the land that you will soon get is not like that. In Israel there are mountains and valleys, and the land gets its water from the rain that falls from the sky. ¹² The Lord your God cares for that land. The Lord your God watches over it, from the beginning to the end of the year. ¹³ "The Lord says, ‘You must listen carefully to the commands I give you today: You must love the Lord your God, and serve him with all your heart and all your soul. If you do that, ¹⁴ I will send rain for your land at the right time. I will send the autumn rain and the spring rain. Then you can gather your grain, your new wine, and your oil. ¹⁵ And I will make grass grow in your fields for your cattle. You will have plenty to eat.' ¹⁶ "He says, ‘Be careful! Don't be fooled. Don't turn away from me to serve other gods and to bow down to them.' ¹⁷ If you do that, the Lord will become very angry with you. He will shut the skies, and there will be no rain. The land will not make a harvest, and you will soon die in the good land that the Lord is giving you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Take heed: Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 4:23, Luke 21:8, Luke 21:34, Luke 21:36, Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 3:12, Hebrews 4:1, Hebrews 12:15

your heart: Deuteronomy 13:3, Deuteronomy 29:18, Job 31:27, Isaiah 44:20, James 1:26, 1 John 5:21, Revelation 12:9, Revelation 13:14, Revelation 20:4

and serve: Deuteronomy 8:19, Deuteronomy 30:17

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:14 - thou shalt 1 Samuel 12:20 - turn not Job 31:26 - beheld Jeremiah 17:21 - Take

Cross-References

Genesis 10:21
Shem was Japheth's older brother. One of Shem's descendants was Eber, the father of all the Hebrew people.

Genesis 10:25
Eber was the father of two sons. One son was named Peleg. He was given this name because the earth was divided during his life. The other son was named Joktan.

Numbers 24:24
Ships will come from Cyprus. They will defeat Assyria and Eber, but those ships will also be destroyed."

1 Chronicles 1:19
Eber had two sons. One son was named Peleg, because the people on the earth were divided into different languages during his lifetime. Peleg's brother was named Joktan.

Luke 3:35
Nahor was the son of Serug. Serug was the son of Reu. Reu was the son of Peleg. Peleg was the son of Eber. Eber was the son of Shelah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived,.... By observing the influence of the heavens upon the fruitfulness of the earth, and so be drawn to the worship of the host of them, the sun, moon, and stars; or by the examples of nations round about them; and by the plausible arguments they may make use of, taken from the traditions of ancestors, from antiquity, and the consent of nations, and the great numbers of worshippers, and the like:

and ye turn aside; from the true God, and the worship of him; or from the law, as Jarchi, which directs to the worship of one God, and forbids idolatry, or the worshipping of images:

and serve other gods, and worship them; other gods than the one only living and true God; gods that made not the heavens and the earth, and which cannot give rain, nor any blessing and mercy of life, nor help and deliver their worshippers when in distress.