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the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

申命记 4:2

我吩咐你們的話,你們不可增加,也不可減少,好使你們遵守我吩咐你們的,就是耶和華你們的 神的命令。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Inspiration;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible, the;   God's Word;   Reverence;   Word;   Word of God;   Word, God's;   The Topic Concordance - Commandment;   Obedience;   Word of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Scriptures, the;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Disciple, Discipleship;   Teach, Teacher;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Polytheism;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Canon of the Old Testament;   Exodus, the;   Pentateuch;   Prophet;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Deuteronomy, the Book of;   Word;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Aristeas ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Inspiration;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Scripture;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Add;   Commandment, the New;   Diminish;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Didache;   Gezerah;   Japheth Ha-Levi;   Oral Law;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 29;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
所 吩 咐 你 们 的 话 , 你 们 不 可 加 添 , 也 不 可 删 减 , 好 叫 你 们 遵 守 我 所 吩 咐 的 , 就 是 耶 和 华 ─ 你 们   神 的 命 令 。

Contextual Overview

1 Now, Israel, listen to the laws and commands I will teach you. Obey them so that you will live and so that you will go over and take the land the Lord , the God of your ancestors, is giving to you. 2 Don't add to these commands, and don't leave anything out, but obey the commands of the Lord your God that I give you. 3 You have seen for yourselves what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how the Lord your God destroyed everyone among you who followed Baal in Peor. 4 But all of you who continued following the Lord your God are still alive today. 5 Look, I have taught you the laws and rules the Lord my God commanded me. Now you can obey the laws in the land you are entering, in the land you will take. 6 Obey these laws carefully, in order to show the other nations that you have wisdom and understanding. When they hear about these laws, they will say, "This great nation of Israel is wise and understanding." 7 No other nation is as great as we are. Their gods do not come near them, but the Lord our God comes near when we pray to him. 8 And no other nation has such good teachings and commands as those I am giving to you today. 9 But be careful! Watch out and don't forget the things you have seen. Don't forget them as long as you live, but teach them to your children and grandchildren. 10 Remember the day you stood before the Lord your God at Mount Sinai. He said to me, "Bring the people together so I can tell them what I have to say. Then they will respect me as long as they live in the land, and they will teach these things to their children."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 12:32, Joshua 1:7, Proverbs 30:6, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 5:18, Matthew 5:43, Matthew 15:2-9, Mark 7:1-13, Galatians 3:15, Revelation 22:18, Revelation 22:19

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:2 - General Exodus 12:50 - as the Lord Exodus 34:11 - Observe Exodus 35:29 - the Lord Leviticus 8:36 - Aaron Leviticus 10:1 - which Leviticus 18:4 - General Leviticus 18:26 - keep Leviticus 19:37 - General Deuteronomy 5:32 - ye shall not Deuteronomy 12:1 - the statutes Deuteronomy 17:20 - he turn Joshua 8:35 - was not Joshua 11:15 - he left nothing Joshua 22:5 - take 2 Chronicles 30:12 - the commandment Job 22:22 - receive Jeremiah 26:2 - diminish Galatians 1:9 - than

Cross-References

Genesis 3:23
So the Lord God forced Adam out of the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."
Genesis 4:26
Seth also had a son, and they named him Enosh. At that time people began to pray to the Lord .
Genesis 9:20
Noah became a farmer and planted a vineyard.
Genesis 37:13
Israel said to Joseph, "Go to Shechem where your brothers are grazing the flocks." Joseph answered, "I will go."
Genesis 47:3
The king said to the brothers, "What work do you do?" And they said to him, "We, your servants, are shepherds, just as our ancestors were."
Exodus 3:1
One day Moses was taking care of Jethro's flock. (Jethro was the priest of Midian and also Moses' father-in-law.) When Moses led the flock to the west side of the desert, he came to Sinai, the mountain of God.
Psalms 127:3
Children are a gift from the Lord ; babies are a reward.
Amos 7:15
But the Lord took me away from tending the flock and said to me, ‘Go, prophesy to my people Israel.'
Luke 11:51
from the killing of Abel to the killing of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I tell you that you who are alive now will be punished for them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, nether shall you diminish ought from it,.... Neither make new laws of their own, and join them to the law of God, and set them upon a level with it, or prefer them before it; as the Scribes and Pharisees did in Christ's time, who by their traditions made the word of God of none effect, as do the Papists also by their unwritten traditions; nor abrogate nor detract from the law of God, nor make void any part of it: or else the sense is, neither do that which is forbidden, nor neglect that which is commanded; neither be guilty of sins of omission nor commission, nor in any way break the law of God, and teach men so to do by word or by example; not a jot or tittle is either to be put to it, or taken from it, Proverbs 30:5

that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you; in his name; or which he delivered unto them as his commandments, and which were to be kept just as they were delivered, without adding to them, or taking from them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:2. Ye shall not add — Any book, chapter, verse or word, which I have not spoken; nor give any comment that has any tendency to corrupt, weaken, or destroy any part of this revelation.

Neither shall ye diminish — Ye shall not only not take away any larger portion of this word, but ye shall not take one jot or tittle from the LAW; it is that word of God that abideth for ever.


 
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