Deuteronomy 11:16
New International Version
Be careful, or you will be enticed to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

New Living Translation
“But be careful. Don’t let your heart be deceived so that you turn away from the LORD and serve and worship other gods.

English Standard Version
Take care lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them;

Berean Standard Bible
But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

King James Bible
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

New King James Version
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside and serve other gods and worship them,

New American Standard Bible
Beware that your hearts are not easily deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods, and worship them.

NASB 1995
“Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

NASB 1977
“Beware, lest your hearts be deceived and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Beware lest your hearts be deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them,

Amplified Bible
Beware that your hearts are not deceived, and that you do not turn away [from the LORD] and serve other gods and worship them,

Christian Standard Bible
Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, serve, and bow in worship to other gods.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside, worship, and bow down to other gods.

American Standard Version
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Beware lest your heart will be enticed and you will turn away and you will serve other gods and you will worship them;

Brenton Septuagint Translation
take heed to thyself that thy heart be not puffed up, and ye transgress, and serve other gods, and worship them:

Contemporary English Version
But watch out! You will be tempted to turn your backs on the LORD. And if you worship other gods,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Beware lest perhaps your heart be deceived, and you depart from the Lord, and serve strange gods, and adore them:

English Revised Version
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Be careful, or you'll be tempted to turn away and worship other gods and bow down to them.

Good News Translation
Do not let yourselves be led away from the LORD to worship and serve other gods.

International Standard Version
Be careful! Otherwise, your hearts will deceive you and you will turn away to serve other gods and worship them.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Literal Standard Version
Take heed to yourselves lest your heart be enticed, and you have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,

Majority Standard Bible
But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods,

New American Bible
But be careful lest your heart be so lured away that you serve other gods and bow down to them.

NET Bible
Make sure you do not turn away to serve and worship other gods!

New Revised Standard Version
Take care, or you will be seduced into turning away, serving other gods and worshiping them,

New Heart English Bible
Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Webster's Bible Translation
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

World English Bible
Be careful, lest your heart be deceived, and you turn away to serve other gods and worship them;

Young's Literal Translation
'Take heed to yourselves, lest your heart be enticed, and ye have turned aside, and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them,

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Context
God's Great Blessings
15And I will provide grass in the fields for your livestock, and you will eat and be satisfied. 16But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to worship and bow down to other gods, 17or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:20
When I have brought them into the land that I swore to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey, they will eat their fill and prosper. Then they will turn to other gods and worship them, and they will reject Me and break My covenant.

1 Samuel 12:20
"Do not be afraid," Samuel replied. "Even though you have committed all this evil, do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart.

1 Samuel 12:21
Do not turn aside after worthless things that cannot profit you or deliver you, for they are empty.

1 Kings 8:35
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

Job 31:27
so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,


Treasury of Scripture

Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Take heed

Deuteronomy 4:9,23
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons; …

Luke 21:8,34,36
And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near: go ye not therefore after them…

Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

your heart

Deuteronomy 13:3
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 29:18
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;

Job 31:27
And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:

and serve

Deuteronomy 8:19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

Deuteronomy 30:17
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

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Deuteronomy 11
1. Another exhortation to obedience
2. by their own experience of God's great works
8. by promise of God's great blessings
16. and by threatenings
18. A careful study is required in God's words
26. The blessing and curse set before them














(16) Take heed to yourselves--i.e., when you are satisfied. (Comp. Deuteronomy 8:10-11.)

Verse 16. - That your heart be not deceived; literally, lest your heart be enticed or seduced (יִפְתָה). The verb means primarily to be open, and as a mind open to impressions from without is easily persuaded, moved either to good or evil, the word came to signify to induce in a good sense, or to seduce in a bad sense. Here the people are cautioned against allowing themselves to be enticed so as to be led astray by seductive representations (cf. Job 31:27; Proverbs 20:19 ["flattereth"]; Job 5:2 ["silly one"]; Hosea 7:11).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
But be careful
הִשָּֽׁמְר֣וּ (hiš·šā·mə·rū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

that you are not
פֶּ֥ן (pen)
Conjunction
Strong's 6435: Removal, lest

enticed
יִפְתֶּ֖ה (yip̄·teh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6601: To open, be, roomy, to be, simple, delude

to turn aside
וְסַרְתֶּ֗ם (wə·sar·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5493: To turn aside

to worship
וַעֲבַדְתֶּם֙ (wa·‘ă·ḇaḏ·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave

and bow down
וְהִשְׁתַּחֲוִיתֶ֖ם (wə·hiš·ta·ḥă·wî·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 7812: To depress, prostrate

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

gods,
אֱלֹהִ֣ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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