Deuteronomy 30:17
New International Version
But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

New Living Translation
“But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods,

English Standard Version
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away to worship other gods and serve them,

Berean Standard Bible
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

King James Bible
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

New King James Version
But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them,

New American Standard Bible
But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but allow yourself to be led astray and you worship other gods and serve them,

NASB 1995
“But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

NASB 1977
“But if your heart turns away and you will not obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

Legacy Standard Bible
But if your heart turns away and you will not listen, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

Amplified Bible
But if your heart turns away and you will not hear and obey, but are drawn away and worship other gods and serve them,

Christian Standard Bible
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow in worship to other gods and serve them,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen and you are led astray to bow down to other gods and worship them,

American Standard Version
But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And if your heart will turn away and you will not hear and you will forget and you will worship other gods and you will work for them;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
But if thy heart change, and thou wilt not hearken, and thou shalt go astray and worship other gods, and serve them,

Douay-Rheims Bible
But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:

English Revised Version
But if thine heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But your hearts might turn away, and you might not listen. You might be tempted to bow down to other gods and worship them.

Good News Translation
But if you disobey and refuse to listen, and are led away to worship other gods,

International Standard Version
But if you turn your heart away, and do not obey, but instead if you stray away to worship and serve other gods,

JPS Tanakh 1917
But if thy heart turn away, and thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Literal Standard Version
And if your heart turns, and you do not listen, and have been drawn away, and have bowed yourself to other gods and served them,

Majority Standard Bible
But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them,

New American Bible
If, however, your heart turns away and you do not obey, but are led astray and bow down to other gods and serve them,

NET Bible
However, if you turn aside and do not obey, but are lured away to worship and serve other gods,

New Revised Standard Version
But if your heart turns away and you do not hear, but are led astray to bow down to other gods and serve them,

New Heart English Bible
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

Webster's Bible Translation
But if thy heart shall turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

World English Bible
But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but are drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them,

Young's Literal Translation
'And if thy heart doth turn, and thou dost not hearken, and hast been driven away, and hast bowed thyself to other gods, and served them,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The Choice of Life or Death
16For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess. 17But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.…

Cross References
Numbers 32:15
For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction."

Deuteronomy 30:16
For I am commanding you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, statutes, and ordinances, so that you may live and increase, and the LORD your God may bless you in the land that you are entering to possess.

Deuteronomy 30:18
I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess.


Treasury of Scripture

But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

if thine

Deuteronomy 29:18-28
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; …

1 Samuel 12:25
But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

John 3:19-21
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil…

heart

Deuteronomy 17:17
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

1 Kings 11:2
Of the nations concerning which the LORD said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But if
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

your heart
לְבָבְךָ֖ (lə·ḇā·ḇə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart

turns away
יִפְנֶ֥ה (yip̄·neh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6437: To turn, to face, appear, look

and you do not
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

listen,
תִשְׁמָ֑ע (ṯiš·mā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently

but are drawn away
וְנִדַּחְתָּ֗ (wə·nid·daḥ·tā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5080: To impel, thrust, banish

to bow down
וְהִֽשְׁתַּחֲוִ֛יתָ (wə·hiš·ta·ḥă·wî·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7812: To depress, prostrate

to other
אֲחֵרִ֖ים (’ă·ḥê·rîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 312: Hinder, next, other

gods
לֵאלֹהִ֥ים (lê·lō·hîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

and worship them,
וַעֲבַדְתָּֽם׃ (wa·‘ă·ḇaḏ·tām)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular | third person masculine plural
Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave


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