Deuteronomy 4:2 - Compare All Versions

Deuteronomy 4:1-2 MSG (The Message)

Now listen, Israel, listen carefully to the rules and regulations that I am teaching you to follow so that you may live and enter and take possession of the land that GOD, the God-of-Your-Fathers, is giving to you. Don’t add a word to what I command you, and don’t remove a word from it. Keep the commands of GOD, your God, that I am commanding you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 KJV (King James Version)

Ye 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.

Deuteronomy 4:2 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 NCV (New Century Version)

Don’t add to these commands, and don’t leave anything out, but obey the commands of the LORD your God that I give you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 ASV (American Standard Version)

Ye 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.

Deuteronomy 4:2 NIV (New International Version)

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.

Deuteronomy 4:2 NKJV (New King James Version)

You shall not add to the word which I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 AMP (Amplified Bible)

You shall not add to the word which I am commanding you, nor take away from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I am commanding you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 NLT (New Living Translation)

Do not add to or subtract from these commands I am giving you. Just obey the commands of the LORD your God that I am giving you.

Deuteronomy 4:2 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)

You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the LORD your God that I command you.