Deuteronomy 23:23
Modern Translations
New International Version
Whatever your lips utter you must be sure to do, because you made your vow freely to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

New Living Translation
But once you have voluntarily made a vow, be careful to fulfill your promise to the LORD your God.

English Standard Version
You shall be careful to do what has passed your lips, for you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

Berean Study Bible
Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

New American Standard Bible
You shall be careful and perform what goes out of your lips, since in fact you have vowed a voluntary offering to the LORD your God, whatever you have promised.

NASB 1995
"You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have promised.

NASB 1977
“You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips, just as you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, what you have promised.

Amplified Bible
You shall be careful to perform that [vow] which passes your lips, just as you have made a voluntary vow to the LORD your God, just as you have promised with your own words (mouth).

Christian Standard Bible
Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised to the LORD your God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Be careful to do whatever comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed what you promised to the LORD your God."

Contemporary English Version
You must keep whatever promises you make to the LORD. After all, you are the one who chose to make the promises.

Good News Translation
but if you make one voluntarily, be sure that you keep it.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Make sure you do what you said you would do [in your vow]. You freely chose to make your vow to the LORD your God.

International Standard Version
Be sure you do whatever you promise, because you have given your word voluntarily to the LORD your God.

NET Bible
Whatever you vow, you must be careful to do what you have promised, such as what you have vowed to the LORD your God as a freewill offering.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

New King James Version
That which has gone from your lips you shall keep and perform, for you voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God what you have promised with your mouth.

King James 2000 Bible
That which is gone out from your lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed unto the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

New Heart English Bible
That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

World English Bible
That which is gone out of your lips you shall observe and do; according as you have vowed to Yahweh your God, a freewill offering, which you have promised with your mouth.

American King James Version
That which is gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

American Standard Version
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto Jehovah thy God, a freewill-offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

A Faithful Version
That which has gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform, even a freewill offering, according as you have vowed to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

Darby Bible Translation
What is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and do, as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God, the voluntary-offering that thou hast promised with thy mouth.

English Revised Version
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, a freewill offering, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

Webster's Bible Translation
That which is uttered by thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a free-will-offering, according as thou hast vowed to the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
That which is gone out of thy lippes, thou shalt keepe and performe, as thou hast vowed it willingly vnto the Lord thy God: for thou hast spoken it with thy mouth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But that whiche is once gone out of thy lippes, thou must kepe and do, accordyng as thou hast vowed vnto the Lorde thy God of a freewyll, and as thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But that which is proceaded out of yi lyppes shalt thou kepe, and do therafter, acordinge as thou hast vowed vnto the LORDE of a frewyll, which thou hast spoken wt thy mouth.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
but that which is once gone out off thy lippes, thou must kepe and doo, accordynge as thou hast vowed vnto the Lorde thy god a frewilloffrynge whiche thou hast spoken with thy mouth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
You keep and have done the utterance of your lips, as you have vowed to your God YHWH, a free-will offering which you have spoken with your mouth.

Young's Literal Translation
The produce of thy lips thou dost keep, and hast done it, as thou hast vowed to Jehovah thy God; a free-will-offering, which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.

Smith's Literal Translation
That going out of thy lips, thou shalt watch and do according as thou didst vow to Jehovah thy God; a voluntary gift which thou spakest with thy mouth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But that which is once gone out of thy lips, thou shalt observe, and shalt do as thou hast promised to the Lord thy God, and hast spoken with thy own will and with thy own mouth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But as soon as it has departed from your lips, you shall observe and do just as you have promised to the Lord your God and just as you have spoken by your own free will and with your own mouth.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Keep anything that proceeds from your lips and perform as you have vowed to LORD JEHOVAH your God the offering that you have spoken with your mouth.

Lamsa Bible
That which is gone out of your lips you shall keep and perform; just as you have vowed a freewill offering to the LORD your God, which you have promised with your mouth.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt observe and do; according as thou hast vowed freely unto the LORD thy God, even that which thou hast promised with thy mouth.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Thou shalt observe the words that proceed from between thy lips; and as thou hast vowed a gift to the Lord God, so shalt thou do that which thou hast spoken with thy mouth.
















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