Deuteronomy 4:27

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where the LORD shall lead you away.

King James Version
And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations to where Yahweh will lead you.

English Standard Version
And the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

New Century Version
The Lord will scatter you among the other nations. Only a few of you will be left alive, and those few will be in other nations where the Lord will send you.

New English Translation
Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples and there will be very few of you among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

Amplified Bible
"The LORD will scatter and disperse you among the peoples (pagan nations), and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD drives you.

New American Standard Bible
"The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD drives you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord shall scatter you among the people, and ye shall be left few in nomber among the nations, whither the Lord shall bring you:

Legacy Standard Bible
And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you will remain few in number among the nations where Yahweh drives you.

Contemporary English Version
Only a few of you will survive, and the Lord will force you to leave the land and will scatter you among the nations.

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai will scatter you among the peoples; and among the nations to which Adonai will lead you away, you will be left few in number.

Darby Translation
And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left a small company among the nations to which Jehovah will lead you.

Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord will scatter you among the nations. And only a few of you will be left alive to go to the countries where the Lord will send you.

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and you shall be left few in number among the nations where the LORD your God shall scatter you.

Good News Translation
The Lord will scatter you among other nations, where only a few of you will survive.

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be reduced to a few survivors among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.

Literal Translation
And Jehovah shall scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations to which Jehovah shall lead you away.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And ye LORDE shal scater you amonge ye nacions and ye shall be left a small people amoge ye Heythen, whyther the LORDE shall brynge you.

American Standard Version
And Jehovah will scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah shall lead you away.

Bible in Basic English
And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from death among the nations where the Lord will send you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lord shall scatter you among the people, and ye shalbe left fewe in number among the nations whyther the Lorde shall bryng you.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the LORD shall lead you away.

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord shall scatter you among all nations, and ye shall be left few in number among all the nations, among which the Lord shall bring you.

English Revised Version
And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the LORD shall lead you away.

Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and schal scatere `in to alle hethen men, and ye schulen leeue fewe among naciouns, to whiche the Lord schal lede you.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah hath scattered you among the peoples, and ye have been left few in number among the nations, whither Jehovah leadeth you,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.

World English Bible
Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, and you shall be left few in number among the nations, where Yahweh shall lead you away.

New King James Version
And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

New Living Translation
For the Lord will scatter you among the nations, where only a few of you will survive.

New Life Bible
The Lord will spread you out among the nations. And there will not be many of you left among the nations where the Lord will drive you.

New Revised Standard
The Lord will scatter you among the peoples; only a few of you will be left among the nations where the Lord will lead you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and Yahweh will scatter you among the peoples, - and ye shall have left remaining of you men easily counted, among the nations whither Yahweh will drive you;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And scatter you among all nations, and you shall remain a few among the nations, to which the Lord shall lead you.

Revised Standard Version
And the LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD will drive you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and you will be left few in number among the nations where the LORD drives you.

Contextual Overview

¹Now listen, Israel, listen carefully to the rules and regulations that I am teaching you to follow so that you may live and enter and take possession of the land that God , the God-of-Your-Fathers, is giving to you. Don't add a word to what I command you, and don't remove a word from it. Keep the commands of God , your God, that I am commanding you. ³You saw with your own eyes what God did at Baal Peor, how God destroyed from among you every man who joined in the Baal Peor orgies. But you, the ones who held tight to God , your God, are alive and well, every one of you, today. ⁵Pay attention: I'm teaching you the rules and regulations that God commanded me, so that you may live by them in the land you are entering to take up ownership. Keep them. Practice them. You'll become wise and understanding. When people hear and see what's going on, they'll say, "What a great nation! So wise, so understanding! We've never seen anything like it." ⁷Yes. What other great nation has gods that are intimate with them the way God , our God, is with us, always ready to listen to us? And what other great nation has rules and regulations as good and fair as this Revelation that I'm setting before you today? ⁹ Just make sure you stay alert. Keep close watch over yourselves. Don't forget anything of what you've seen. Don't let your heart wander off. Stay vigilant as long as you live. Teach what you've seen and heard to your children and grandchildren. ¹⁰ That day when you stood before God , your God, at Horeb, God said to me, "Assemble the people in my presence to listen to my words so that they will learn to fear me in holy fear for as long as they live on the land, and then they will teach these same words to their children." ¹¹You gathered. You stood in the shadow of the mountain. The mountain was ablaze with fire, blazing high into the very heart of Heaven. You stood in deep darkness and thick clouds. God spoke to you out of the fire. You heard the sound of words but you saw nothing—no form, only a voice. He announced his covenant, the Ten Words, by which he commanded you to live. Then he wrote them down on two slabs of stone. ¹⁴ And God commanded me at that time to teach you the rules and regulations that you are to live by in the land which you are crossing over the Jordan to possess. ¹⁵You saw no form on the day God spoke to you at Horeb from out of the fire. Remember that. Carefully guard yourselves so that you don't turn corrupt and make a form, carving a figure that looks male or female, or looks like a prowling animal or a flying bird or a slithering snake or a fish in a stream. And also carefully guard yourselves so that you don't look up into the skies and see the sun and moon and stars, all the constellations of the skies, and be seduced into worshiping and serving them. God set them out for everybody's benefit, everywhere. But you— God took you right out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to become the people of his inheritance—and that's what you are this very day. ²¹But God was angry with me because of you and the things you said. He swore that I'd never cross the Jordan, never get to enter the good land that God , your God, is giving you as an inheritance. This means that I am going to die here. I'm not crossing the Jordan. But you will cross; you'll possess the good land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 28:62-64, Nehemiah 1:3, Nehemiah 1:8, Nehemiah 1:9, Ezekiel 12:15, Ezekiel 32:26

Reciprocal: Leviticus 26:33 - General Leviticus 26:38 - General Deuteronomy 28:64 - scatter 1 Samuel 26:19 - they have driven 1 Kings 8:46 - unto the land 1 Kings 14:15 - this good land 2 Kings 15:29 - carried them 2 Kings 21:14 - deliver 2 Kings 24:3 - remove them 2 Chronicles 6:36 - thou be angry Esther 3:8 - scattered abroad Psalms 44:11 - scattered Psalms 59:11 - scatter Psalms 106:27 - to scatter Isaiah 11:11 - set his hand Isaiah 17:6 - General Isaiah 24:1 - scattereth Isaiah 24:6 - and few Isaiah 26:15 - thou hadst Jeremiah 9:16 - scatter Jeremiah 13:24 - will Jeremiah 17:4 - shalt Jeremiah 28:8 - prophesied Jeremiah 39:9 - carried Jeremiah 42:2 - left Ezekiel 5:10 - the whole Ezekiel 20:25 - I gave Ezekiel 22:15 - scatter Daniel 9:7 - near Amos 5:3 - The city Habakkuk 1:5 - ye among Zechariah 7:14 - scattered Mark 12:9 - he will James 1:1 - scattered 1 Peter 1:1 - scattered

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations,.... As they were by both captivities; the ten tribes were dispersed among the cities of the Medes, and the two tribes throughout the empire of Babylon:

and ye shall be left few in number among the Heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you; or be "men of number" i, so few that they might be easily numbered; which intimates that it should be other wise with them than when in Egypt; there they were multiplied and increased the more they were afflicted, but in these captivities they should be greatly diminished.

i מתי מספר "viri numeri", Montanus, Drusius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare with these verses Leviticus 26:33-40, and Deuteronomy 28:64 ff.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 4:27. The Lord shall scatter you among the nations — This was amply verified in their different captivities and dispersions.