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A Father’s Instruction

Proverbs 4:15

In 11 translations

BSB
Avoid it; do not travel on it. Turn from it and pass on by.
KJV
Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
WEB
Avoid it, and don’t pass by it. Turn from it, and pass on.
ASV
Avoid it, pass not by it; Turn from it, and pass on.
LSV
Avoid it, do not pass over into it, || Turn aside from it, and pass on.
YLT
Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on.
DBY
avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass away.
DRC
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
GNV
Auoide it, and goe not by it: turne from it, and passe by.
JPS
Avoid it, pass not by it; turn from it, and pass on.
LXXE
In whatever place they shall pitch their camp, go not thither; but turn from them, and pass away.

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Original-language editions

WLC
פְּרָעֵ֥הוּ אַל־תַּעֲבָר־בּ֑וֹ שְׂטֵ֖ה מֵעָלָ֣יו וַעֲבֽוֹר׃
LXX-Br
Ἐν ᾧ ἂν τόπῳ στρατοπεδεύσωσι, μὴ ἐπέλθῃς ἐκεὶ, ἔκκλινον δὲ ἀπʼ αὐτῶν καὶ παράλλαξον.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Ephesians 5:11Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
  • Job 22:23If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:22Abstain from every form of evil.
  • Exodus 23:7Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty.
  • Job 11:14if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
  • Proverbs 5:8Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
  • Isaiah 33:15He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—
  • Proverbs 6:5Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

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