Deuteronomy 15:5

Green's Literal Translation

only if hearing you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to take heed to do all this command which I am commanding you today.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
if only you obey the Lord your God and are careful to follow every one of these commands I am giving you today.

Hebrew Names Version
if only you diligently listen to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all this mitzvah which I command you this day.

King James Version
Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

Lexham English Bible
If only you listen well to the voice of Yahweh your God by observing diligently all of these commandments that I am commanding you today.

English Standard Version
if only you will strictly obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all this commandment that I command you today.

New Century Version
He will bless you if you obey the Lord your God completely, but you must be careful to obey all the commands I am giving you today.

New English Translation
if you carefully obey him by keeping all these commandments that I am giving you today.

Amplified Bible
if only you will listen to and obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all these commandments which I am commanding you today.

New American Standard Bible
if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to follow carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So that thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God to obserue and doe all these commandements, which I commande thee this day.

Legacy Standard Bible
if only you listen obediently to the voice of Yahweh your God, to be careful to do all this commandment which I am commanding you today.

Complete Jewish Bible
if only you will listen carefully to what Adonai your God says and take care to obey all these mitzvot I am giving you today.

Darby Translation
if thou only diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to take heed to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.

Easy-to-Read Version
But this will happen only if you obey the Lord your God. You must be careful to obey every command that I have told you today.

George Lamsa Translation
If you hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command you this day.

Good News Translation
if you obey him and carefully observe everything that I command you today.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
onely yt thou herke vnto the voyce of the LORDE yi God, & kepe all these comaundemetes which I comaunde the this daye,

American Standard Version
if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.

Bible in Basic English
If only you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to keep all these orders which I give you today.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So that thou hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, to obserue and do all these commaundementes which I commaunde thee this day:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.

King James Version (1611)
Onely if thou carefully hearken vnto the voice of the Lord thy God, to obserue to doe all these commandedements, which I commaund thee this day.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And if ye shall indeed hearken to the voice of the Lord your God, to keep and do all these commandments, as many as I charge thee this day,

English Revised Version
if only thou diligently hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day.

Berean Standard Bible
if only you obey the LORD your God and are careful to follow all these commandments I am giving you today.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If netheles thou schalt here the vois of thi Lord God, and schalt kepe alle thingis whiche he comaundide, and whiche Y comaunde to dai to thee, he schal blesse thee, as he bihiyte.

Young's Literal Translation
`Only, if thou dost diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all this command which I am commanding thee to-day,

Update Bible Version
if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all [of] this commandment which I command you this day.

Webster's Bible Translation
Only if thou shalt carefully hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

World English Bible
if only you diligently listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to observe to do all this commandment which I command you this day.

New King James Version
only if you carefully obey the voice of the LORD your God, to observe with care all these commandments which I command you today.

New Living Translation
You will receive this blessing if you are careful to obey all the commands of the Lord your God that I am giving you today.

New Life Bible
But you must listen and obey the voice of the Lord your God. Be careful to do all the Law which I am telling you today.

New Revised Standard
if only you will obey the Lord your God by diligently observing this entire commandment that I command you today.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
only if thou do hearken unto the voice of Yahweh thy God, - to observe to do - all this commandment which I am commanding time to-day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Yet so if thou hear the voice of the Lord thy God, and keep all things that he hath ordained, and which I command thee this day, he will bless thee, as he hath promised.

Revised Standard Version
if only you will obey the voice of the LORD your God, being careful to do all this commandment which I command you this day.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
if only you listen obediently to the voice of the LORD your God, to observe carefully all this commandment which I am commanding you today.

Contextual Overview

¹ At the end of every seven years you shall make a release. ² And this is the manner of the release: Everyone who has a loan to his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother, because a release has been proclaimed for Jehovah. ³ You may exact it from a foreigner, but your hand shall release whatever is yours with your brother, ⁴ only that there shall be no one in need among you. For Jehovah will greatly bless you in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you for an inheritance, to possess it, ⁵ only if hearing you listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to take heed to do all this command which I am commanding you today. ⁶ For Jehovah your God will bless you as He promised you. And you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow. And you shall rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over you. ⁷ If there is a poor man among you, one of your brothers inside any of your gates in your land which Jehovah your God is giving to you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your needy brother. ⁸ But opening you shall open your hand to him, and lending you shall lend him enough for his need in that which he lacks. ⁹ Beware that there is no evil thought in your heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release draws near; and your eye be evil against your needy brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to Jehovah against you and it be sin to you. ¹⁰ Giving you shall give to him, and your heart shall not be grieved when you give to him, because Jehovah your God will bless you for this thing, in all your work, and in all that you put your hand to.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 11:13-15, Deuteronomy 28:1-15, Leviticus 26:3-14, Joshua 1:7, Psalms 19:11, Isaiah 1:19, Isaiah 1:20, Philippians 1:27

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 26:17 - hearken 1 Kings 11:38 - if thou wilt

Cross-References

Genesis 12:2
And I will make of you a great nation. And I will bless you and make your name great; and you will be a blessing.

Genesis 13:16
And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can count the dust of the earth, then your seed also will be counted.

Genesis 15:7
And He said to him, I am Jehovah who caused you to come out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.

Genesis 15:8
And he said, My Lord Jehovah, by what shall I know that I shall inherit it?

Genesis 16:10
And the Angel of Jehovah said to her, I will exceedingly multiply your seed, so that it shall not be numbered for multitude.

Genesis 22:17
that blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the shore of the sea. And your Seed shall possess the gate of His enemies.

Genesis 26:4
And I will increase your seed like the stars of the heavens, and I will give to your seed all these lands. And all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves in your Seed,

Genesis 28:14
And your seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and you shall spread to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south; and all the families of the earth shall be blessed in you and in your Seed.

Exodus 32:13
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, Your servants to whom You swore by Yourself, and You spoke to them, I will multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens, and all this land which I have said, I will give to your seed. And they shallpossess it forever.

Deuteronomy 1:10
Jehovah your God has multiplied you, and, behold, today you are as the stars of heaven for multitude.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 5 Only if thou carefully hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God,.... In his word, and by his prophets; this being the case, there would be no more poor among them, or however they would be so blessed of God, that they would be capable of releasing the debts of the poor, without hurting themselves and their families:

to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day; a phrase often used to put them in mind of the commands of God, and the necessity of keeping them, their temporal happiness depending thereon.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The year of release is no doubt identical with the sabbatical year of the earlier legislation (Exodus 23:10 ff, and Leviticus 25:2 ff), the command of the older legislation being here amplified. The release was probably for the year, not total and final, and had reference only to loans lent because of poverty (compare Deuteronomy 15:4, Deuteronomy 15:7). Yet even so the law was found to be too stringent for the avarice of the people, because it was one of those which the rabbis “made of none effect by their traditions.”

Deuteronomy 15:2

Because it is called the Lord’s release - Render, because proclamation has been made of the Lord’s release. The verb is impersonal, and implies (compare Deuteronomy 31:10) that “the solemnity of the year of release” has been publicly announced.

Deuteronomy 15:3

The foreigner would not be bound by the restriction of the sabbatical year, and therefore would have no claim to its special remissions and privileges. He could earn his usual income in the seventh as in other years, and therefore is not exonerated from liability to discharge a debt anymore in the one than the others.

Deuteronomy 15:4

There is no inconsistency between this and Deuteronomy 15:11. The meaning seems simply to be, “Thou must release the debt for the year, except when there be no poor person concerned, a contingency which may happen, for the Lord shall greatly bless thee.” The general object of these precepts, as also of the year of Jubilee and the laws respecting inheritance, is to prevent the total ruin of a needy person, and his disappearance from the families of Israel by the sale of his patrimony.

Deuteronomy 15:9

literally: “Beware that there be not in thy heart a word which is worthlessness” (compare Deuteronomy 13:13 note).