Deuteronomy 18:13

Contemporary English Version

Never be guilty of doing any of these disgusting things!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

Hebrew Names Version
You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.

King James Version
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.

Lexham English Bible
You must be blameless before Yahweh your God.

English Standard Version
You shall be blameless before the Lord your God,

New Century Version
But you must be innocent in the presence of the Lord your God.

New English Translation
You must be blameless before the Lord your God.

Amplified Bible
"You shall be blameless (complete, perfect) before the LORD your God.

New American Standard Bible
"You are to be blameless before the LORD your God.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou shalt be vpright therefore with the Lorde thy God.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall be blameless before Yahweh your God.

Complete Jewish Bible
You must be wholehearted with Adonai your God.

Darby Translation
Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God.

Easy-to-Read Version
You must be faithful to the Lord your God, never doing anything he considers wrong.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall be innocent before the LORD your God.

Good News Translation
Be completely faithful to the Lord ."

Literal Translation
You shall be perfect with Jehovah your God.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But thou shalt be perfecte with the LORDE yi God.

American Standard Version
Thou shalt be perfect with Jehovah thy God.

Bible in Basic English
You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou shalt be perfect therfore in the sight of the Lorde thy God.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thou shalt be whole-hearted with the LORD thy God.

King James Version (1611)
Thou shalt bee perfite with the Lord thy God.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thou shalt be perfect before the Lord thy God.

English Revised Version
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

Berean Standard Bible
You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou schalt be perfit and without filthe, with thi Lord God.

Young's Literal Translation
Perfect thou art with Jehovah thy God,

Update Bible Version
You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.

World English Bible
You shall be perfect with Yahweh your God.

New King James Version
You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.

New Living Translation
But you must be blameless before the Lord your God.

New Life Bible
You must be without blame before the Lord your God.

New Revised Standard
You must remain completely loyal to the Lord your God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Blameless, shalt thou be with, Yahweh thy God;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt be perfect, and without spot before the Lord thy God.

Revised Standard Version
You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.

THE MESSAGE
Be completely loyal to God , your God. These nations that you're about to run out of the country consort with sorcerers and witches. But not you. God , your God, forbids it.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall be blameless before the LORD your God.

Contextual Overview

⁹ Moses said to Israel: Soon you will go into the land that the Lord your God is giving you. The nations that live there do things that are disgusting to the Lord , and you must not follow their example. ¹⁰Don't sacrifice your son or daughter. And don't try to use any kind of magic or witchcraft to tell fortunes or to cast spells or to talk with spirits of the dead. ¹² The Lord is disgusted with anyone who does these things, and that's why he will help you destroy the nations that are in the land. ¹³ Never be guilty of doing any of these disgusting things! ¹⁴ Moses said to Israel: You will go in and take the land from nations that practice magic and witchcraft. But the Lord your God won't allow you to do those things.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Thou shalt: Genesis 6:9, Genesis 17:1, Job 1:1, Job 1:8, Psalms 37:37, Matthew 5:48, Philippians 3:12, Philippians 3:15, Revelation 3:2

perfect: or, upright, or, sincere

Reciprocal: Joshua 24:14 - serve 2 Samuel 22:33 - perfect 1 Kings 8:61 - perfect

Cross-References

John 2:25
No one had to tell him what people were like. He already knew.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God. Sincerely serve and worship him, faithfully adhere to his word, laws, statutes, and ordinances, and walk uprightly before him.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Perfect - As in Genesis 17:1; Job 1:1; Matthew 5:48. The sense is that Israel was to keep the worship of the true God wholly uncontaminated by idolatrous pollutions.