Verse 2
Deuteronomy 4:2
English Revised Version
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Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God (Elohim) which I command you.
Original Language Text
hebrew
לֹ֣א תֹסִ֗פוּ עַל הַ/דָּבָר֙ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אָנֹכִי֙ מְצַוֶּ֣ה אֶתְ/כֶ֔ם וְ/לֹ֥א תִגְרְע֖וּ מִמֶּ֑/נּוּ לִ/שְׁמֹ֗ר אֶת מִצְוֺת֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹֽהֵי/כֶ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֥ר אָנֹכִ֖י מְצַוֶּ֥ה אֶתְ/כֶֽם
English Translation
You shall not add to the word which I command you, and you shall not diminish from it, to keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.
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Chapter 4 Context
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Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may k...
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Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peopl...
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For what great nation is there, that hath a god so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God (Elohim) is w...
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And what great nation is there, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which...
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Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eye...
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the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God (Elohim) in Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, As...
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And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the heart of h...
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And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard the voice of words, but ye saw no...
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And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments;...
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And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in...
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Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that the LORD s...
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lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image in the form of any figure, the likeness of m...
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the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the h...
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the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the water...
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and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars...
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But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto...
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Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, a...
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but I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye shall go over, and possess that good...
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Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God (Elohim), which he made...
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For the LORD thy God (Elohim) is a devouring fire, a jealous God (Elohim).
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When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have been long in the land, an...
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I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off...
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And the LORD shall scatter you among the peoples, and ye shall be left few in number among the natio...
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And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear,...
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But if from thence ye shall seek the LORD thy God (Elohim), thou shalt find him, if thou search afte...
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When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, in the latter days thou shalt...
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for the LORD thy God (Elohim) is a merciful God (Elohim); he will not fail thee, neither destroy the...
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For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God (Elohim) creat...
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Did ever people hear the voice of God (Elohim) speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast h...
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Or hath God (Elohim) assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by tempta...
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Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God (Elohim); there is none els...
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Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made th...
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And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out wit...
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to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee...
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Know therefore this day, and lay it to thine heart, that the LORD he is God (Elohim) in heaven above...
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And thou shalt keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may g...
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Then Moses separated three cities beyond Jordan toward the sunrising;
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that the manslayer might flee thither, which slayeth his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in ti...
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namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for...
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And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
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these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which Moses spake unto the children...
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beyond Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who...
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and they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorit...
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from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, even unto mount Sion (the same is Hermon),
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and all the Arabah beyond Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisg...
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