Deuteronomy 5:32

And you have observed to do as your God YHWH has commanded you, you do not turn aside [to] the right or left;

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

In Context

31and you, stand here with Me, and let Me speak to you all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which you teach them, and they have done [them] in the land which I am giving to them to possess it.

33in all the way which your God YHWH has commanded you—walk, so that you live, and [it is] well with you, and you have prolonged days in the land which you possess.”

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:2You do not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor diminish from it, to keep the commands of your God YHWH which I am commanding you.

Deuteronomy 6:17You diligently keep the commands of your God YHWH, and His testimonies and His statutes which He has commanded you,

Deuteronomy 8:1“All the command which I am commanding you today you observe to do, so that you live, and have multiplied, and gone in, and possessed the land which YHWH has sworn to your fathers;

Deuteronomy 12:32The whole thing which I am commanding you, you observe to do it; you do not add to it, nor diminish from it.”

Deuteronomy 17:20so that his heart is not high above his brothers, and so as not to turn aside from the command [to] the right or left, so that he prolongs days over his kingdom, he and his sons in the midst of Israel.”

Deuteronomy 28:14and you do not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you today [to] the right or left, to go after other gods, to serve them.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:24-33

23 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders; 24 And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath showed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth. 25 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our… Read the whole commentary →

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