Verse 2
Deuteronomy 4:2
Bible in Basic English
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Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God (Elohim) which I give 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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And now give ear, O Israel, to the laws and the decisions which I am teaching you, and do them; so t...
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Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of...
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Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for destruction came from the Lord on al...
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But you who kept faith with the Lord are living, every one of you, today.
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I have been teaching you laws and decisions, as I was ordered to do by the Lord my God (Elohim), so...
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So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the p...
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For what great nation has a god so near to them as the Lord our God (Elohim) is, whenever we are tur...
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And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?
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Only take care, and keep watch on your soul, for fear that the things which your eyes have seen go f...
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That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God (Elohim) in Horeb, and the Lord said to me,...
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And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain...
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And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but...
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And he gave you his agreement with you, the ten rules which you were to keep, which he put in writin...
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And the Lord gave me orders at that time to make clear to you these laws and decisions, so that you...
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So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of...
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So that you may not be turned to evil ways and make for yourselves an image in the form of any livin...
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Or any beast of the earth, or winged bird of the air,
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Or of anything which goes flat on the earth, or any fish in the water under the earth.
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And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the...
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But the Lord has taken you out of the flaming fire, out of Egypt, to be to him the people of his her...
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And the Lord was angry with me because of you, and made an oath that I was not to go over Jordan int...
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But death is to come to me in this land, I may not go over Jordan: but you will go over and take tha...
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Take care that you do not let the agreement of the Lord your God (Elohim), which he has made with yo...
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For the Lord your God (Elohim) is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his b...
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If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land...
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May heaven and earth be my witnesses against you today, that destruction will quickly overtake you,...
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And the Lord will send you wandering among the peoples; only a small band of you will be kept from d...
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There you will be the servants of gods, made by men's hands, of wood and stone, having no power of s...
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But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God (Elohim), searching for him with all...
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When you are in trouble and all these things have come on you, if, in the future, you are turned aga...
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Because the Lord your God (Elohim) is a God (Elohim) of mercy, he will not take away his help from y...
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Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God (Elohim) first...
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Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God (Elohim) out of the heart of the f...
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Has God (Elohim) ever before taken a nation for himself from out of another nation, by punishments a...
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All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God (Elohim) and there is no...
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Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire...
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And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, presen...
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Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give i...
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So today be certain, and keep the knowledge deep in your hearts, that the Lord is God (Elohim), in h...
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Then keep his laws and his orders which I give you today, so that it may be well for you and for you...
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Then Moses had three towns marked out on the far side of Jordan looking to the east;
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To which anyone causing the death of his neighbour in error and not through hate, might go in flight...
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The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramo...
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This is the law which Moses put before the children of Israel:
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These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after...
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On the far side of Jordan, in the valley facing Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorite...
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And they took his land for a heritage, and the land of Og, king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amor...
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From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon as far as Mount Sion, which is Hermon,
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And all the Arabah on the far side of Jordan to the east, as far as the sea of the Arabah under the...
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