Deuteronomy 4:2
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.
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Gill's Exposition
Ye shall not add to the word which I command you, nether shall you diminish ought from it,.... Neither make new laws of their own, and join them to the law of God, and set them upon a level with it,…
This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Ye shall not add unto the word … neither … diminish from it So Deu 12:32 [Heb 13:1], cp. Jer 26:2; Rev 22:18 f. That the Law was tampered with in Josiah's day is implied in Jer 8:8, the false pen of…
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