2Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.


In Context

1 Hear now, O Israel, the decrees and laws I am about to teach you. Follow them so that you may live and may go in and take possession of the land that the Lord , the God of your fathers, is giving you.

2 Do not add to what I command you and do not subtract from it, but keep the commands of the Lord your God that I give you.

3 You saw with your own eyes what the Lord did at Baal Peor. The Lord your God destroyed from among you everyone who followed the Baal of Peor,

4 but all of you who held fast to the Lord your God are still alive today.

Deuteronomy 4:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish [ought] from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:2You shall not add to the word that I speak to you, neither shall you take away from it: keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye take from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye 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 which I command you.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:2You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:2You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish ought from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.