Deuteronomy 28:14
12 The LORD will open the heavens, His abundant storehouse, to send rain on your land in season and to bless all the work of your hands. You will lend to many nations, but borrow from none.
13 The LORD will make you the head and not the tail; you will only move upward and never downward, if you hear and carefully follow the commandments of the LORD your God, which I am giving you today.
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.
15 If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- and shall not turn away from any of the words which I command you today, to the right hand or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
- ASV
- 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.
- DARBY
- 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.
- BLB
- And you shall not turn aside from any of the words that I am commanding you⁺ this day, [to] the right or [to] the left, to go after other gods to serve them.
- ÅB
- og såfremt du ikke viker av fra noe av de ord jeg legger fram for dere idag, hverken til høyre eller til venstre, så du følger andre guder og dyrker dem.
- OTB
- Vend deg ikke bort fra noen av de budene jeg gir deg i dag, til høyre eller til venstre, for å forfølge andre guder og tjene dem.
- B1930
- og såfremt du ikke viker av fra noget av de ord jeg legger frem for eder idag, hverken til høire eller til venstre, så du følger andre guder og dyrker dem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 30:21
And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
Read in contextDeuteronomy 5:32
So be careful to do as the LORD your God has commanded you; you are not to turn aside to the right or to the left.
Read in contextProverbs 4:26–27
Make a level path for your feet, and all your ways will be sure.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 11:16
But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,
Read in contextDeuteronomy 11:26–28
See, today I am setting before you a blessing and a curse—
Read in context2 Kings 22:2
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside to the right or to the left.
Read in contextJoshua 23:6
Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.
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