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Bishop's Bible

Deuteronomy 28:14

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.

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Contemporary English Version
But you must not reject any of his laws and teachings or worship other gods.
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.
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.
Literal Translation
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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,
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.
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.

Contextual Overview

1 If thou shalt hearken diligently vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God, and obserue and do all his commaudementes which I commaunde thee this day: the Lorde wyll set thee on hye aboue all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessinges shall come on thee and ouertake thee, if thou shalt hearken vnto the voyce of the Lord thy God. 3 Blessed shalt thou be in the citie, and blessed in the fielde 4 Blessed shalbe the fruite of thy body, and the fruite of thy grounde, and the fruite of thy cattell, the increase of thy kine, and the flockes of thy sheepe. 5 Blessed shalbe thy basket & thy store. 6 Blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out, & blessed when thou commest in. 7 The Lord shall geue ouer thyne enemies that ryse agaynst thee, that they may fall before thy face: They shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seuen wayes. 8 The Lord shall commaunde the blessing vpon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thyne hande to, and wyll blesse thee in the lande whiche the Lorde thy God geueth thee. 9 The Lorde shall make thee an holy people vnto him self, as he hath sworne vnto thee: if thou shalt kepe the commaundementes of the Lorde thy God, and walke in his wayes. 10 And all nations of the earth shall see that the name of the Lorde is called vpon ouer thee, and they shalbe afraide of thee.

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
I wyll also blesse them that blesse thee, and curse the that curseth thee: and in thee shall all kinredes of the earth be blessed.
Genesis 13:14
And the Lorde saide vnto Abram, after that Lot was departed fro hym: Lyft vp thyne eyes nowe, and loke fro the place where thou art, northwarde, southward, eastwarde, and westward:
Genesis 13:16
And I wyl make thy seede as the dust of the earth: so that yf a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seede also be numbred.
Genesis 18:18
Seyng that Abraham shall surely be a great and a myghtie nation, and all the nations of the earth shalbe blessed in hym?
Genesis 22:18
And in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast hearde my voyce.
Genesis 26:4
And wyl make thy seede to multiplie as the starres of heauen, and wyll geue vnto thy seede al these countreys: and in thy seede shall all the nations of the earth be blessed:
Genesis 28:11
And he came vnto a certayne place, & taryed there all night, because the sunne was downe: and toke of the stones of the place, and put vnder his head, and layde hym downe in the same place to sleepe.
Genesis 28:12
And he dreamed, and beholde there stoode a lather vpo the earth, and the toppe of it reached vp to heauen: and see, the angels of God went vp & downe vpon it.
Genesis 32:12
Thou saydest, I wyll surely do thee good, and make thy seede as the sande of the sea, whiche can not be numbred for multitude.
Numbers 23:10
Who can tell the dust of Iacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? I pray God that my soule may dye the death of the righteous, and that my last ende may 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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