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Thursday, October 17th, 2024
the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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Green's Literal Translation

Deuteronomy 28:14

And you shall not turn away from all the Words which I am commanding you today, right or left, to go after other gods, to serve them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blessing;   Fear of God;   Obedience;   The Topic Concordance - Idolatry;   Obedience;   Service;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Obedience to God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Captivity;   Gerizim;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Farming;   Nature;   Water;   Weather;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Amos, Theology of;   Blessing;   Command, Commandment;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Faithfulness of God;   Jews;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Covenant;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mount gerizim;   Treasure;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Captivity;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Eschatology of the Old Testament (with Apocryphal and Apocalyptic Writings);   Go;   Gods;   Salvation;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Basket;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Tokaḥah;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Update Bible Version
and shall 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.
English Revised Version
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.
New Century Version
Do not disobey anything I command you today. Do exactly as I command, and do not follow other gods or serve them.
New English Translation
But you must not turn away from all the commandments I am giving you today, to either the right or left, nor pursue other gods and worship them.
Webster's Bible Translation
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, [to] the right hand or [to] the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
World English Bible
and shall 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.
Amplified Bible
"Do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to follow and serve other gods.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and doist, and bowist not awey fro tho, nether to the riyt side nether to the lefte side, nether suest alien goddis, nethir worschipist hem.
Young's Literal Translation
and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day -- right or left -- to go after other gods, to serve them.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
Contemporary English Version
But you must not reject any of his laws and teachings or worship other gods.
American Standard Version
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.
Bible in Basic English
Not turning away from any of the orders which I give you today, to the right hand or to the left, or going after any other gods to give them worship.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And see that thou bow not aside from any of these wordes whiche I commaund thee this day, either to the right hande or to the left, that thou wouldest go after straunge gods to serue them.
Complete Jewish Bible
and not turn away from any of the words I am ordering you today, neither to the right nor to the left, to follow after other gods and serve them.
Darby Translation
and if thou turn not aside from any of the words that I command thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Easy-to-Read Version
You must not turn away from any of the teachings that I give you today. You must not turn away to the right or to the left. You must not follow other gods to serve them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.
King James Version (1611)
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the wordes which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to goe after other gods, to serue them.
New Life Bible
Do not turn aside from any of the words I tell you today, to the right or to the left. Do not follow other gods and work for them.
New Revised Standard
and if you do not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you today, either to the right or to the left, following other gods to serve them.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and dost not turn side from any of the words which I am commanding you to-day, to the right hand or to the left, - to go after other gods, to serve them,
Geneva Bible (1587)
But thou shalt not decline from any of the wordes, which I command you this day, either to the right hand or to the left, to goe after other gods to serue them.
George Lamsa Translation
And you shall not turn aside from any of the commandments which I command you this day, to the right hand, or to the left, and you shall not go after the Gentile gods, nor serve them.
Good News Translation
But you must never disobey them in any way, or worship and serve other gods.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And turn not away from them neither to the right hand, nor to the left, nor follow strange gods, nor worship them.
Revised Standard Version
and if you do 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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt not turn aside from any of the commandments, which I charge thee this day, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not turn aside to the right or the left from all the things I am commanding you today, and do not follow other gods to worship them.
Hebrew Names Version
and shall 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.
King James Version
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Lexham English Bible
And you shall not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you today to the right or left by going after other gods to serve them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& yf thou bowe not asyde from eny of these wordes, which I commaunde ye this daye, either to the righte hande or to the lefte, yt thou woldest walke after other goddes to serue them.
New American Standard Bible
and do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or the left, to pursue other gods to serve them.
New King James Version
So you shall not turn aside from any of the words which I command you this day, to the right or the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
New Living Translation
You must not turn away from any of the commands I am giving you today, nor follow after other gods and worship them.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and do not turn aside from any of the words which I command you today, to the right or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
Legacy Standard Bible
and do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to walk after other gods to serve them.

Contextual Overview

1 And it shall be if listening you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, taking heed to do all His commandments which I command you this day, Jehovah your God shall give you to be on high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come on you and overtake you if you will listen to the voice of Jehovah your God. 3 You shall be blessed in the city, and you shall be blessed in the field. 4 The fruit of your body shall be blessed, and the fruit of your ground, and the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your oxen, and the young ones of your flock. 5 Your basket and your kneadingtrough shall be blessed. 6 You shall be blessed when you come in, and you shall be blessed when you go out. 7 Jehovah shall cause your enemies that rise up against you to be stricken before your face. They shall come out against you one way, and flee before you seven ways. 8 Jehovah shall command the blessing on you in your storehouses and all that you set your hand to . And He shall bless you in the land which Jehovah your God is giving to you. 9 Jehovah shall establish you a holy people to Himself, as He has sworn to you, if you shall keep the commands of Jehovah your God and welcome His ways. 10 And all the peoples of the earth shall see that you are called by the name of Jehovah, and they shall fear you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thou shalt: Deuteronomy 5:32, Deuteronomy 11:16, Deuteronomy 11:26-28, Joshua 23:6, 2 Kings 22:2, Proverbs 4:26, Proverbs 4:27

the right: Isaiah 30:21

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:11 - to the right Joshua 1:7 - turn not 2 Samuel 14:19 - turn 2 Chronicles 34:2 - declined Jeremiah 25:6 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 12:3
And I will bless those who bless you, and curse the one despising you. And in you all families of the earth shall be blessed.
Genesis 13:14
And after Lot had separated from him, Jehovah said to Abram, Now lift up your eyes and look northward and southward and eastward and westward from the place where you are.
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 18:18
And Abraham shall become a great and powerful nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him?
Genesis 22:18
And in your Seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because you have obeyed My voice.
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 28:11
And he came on a place and stayed the night there, for the sun had gone. And he took stones of the place and placed them at his head; and he lay down in that place.
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed. And, behold, a ladder was placed on the earth, its top reaching to the heavens. And, behold, the angels of God were going up and going down on it!
Genesis 32:12
And You said, dealing I will deal well with you, and I will make your seed like the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Numbers 23:10
Who can count Jacob's dust, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And thou shall not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day,.... Depart from them as a rule to walk by, turn out from them as a path to walk in, neglect and disobey them, and go into practices contrary to them: turning

[to] the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them; which to do was to break the first and principal table of the law, than which nothing was more abominable and provoking to God.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A comparison of this chapter with Exodus 23:20-23 and Leviticus 26:0 will show how Moses here resumes and amplifies the promises and threats already set forth in the earlier records of the Law. The language rises in this chapter to the sublimest strains, especially in the latter part of it; and the prophecies respecting the dispersion and degradation of the Jewish nation in its later days are among the most remarkable in scripture. They are plain, precise, and circumstantial; and the fulfillment of them has been literal, complete, and undeniable.

The Blessing. The six repetitions of the word “blessed” introduce the particular forms which the blessing would take in the various relations of life.

Deuteronomy 28:5

The “basket” or bag was a customary means in the East for carrying about whatever might be needed for personal uses (compare Deuteronomy 26:2; John 13:29).

The “store” is rather the kneading-trough Exodus 8:3; Exodus 12:34. The blessings here promised relate, it will be observed, to private and personal life: in Deuteronomy 28:7 those which are of a more public and national character are brought forward.

Deuteronomy 28:9

The oath with which God vouchsafed to confirm His promises to the patriarchs (compare Genesis 22:16; Hebrews 6:13-14) contained by implication these gifts of holiness and eminence to Israel (compare the marginal references).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 28:14. Thou shalt not go aside - to the right hand or to the left — The way of obedience is a straight way; it goes right forward; he who declines either to right or left from this path goes astray and misses heaven.


 
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