you must be careful to obey all the decrees and regulations I am giving you today.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you today.
- KJV And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.
- BSB be careful to follow all the statutes and ordinances that I am setting before you today.
- NKJV And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.
- NASB and you shall be careful to do all the statutes and the judgments which I am placing before you today.
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Quick answer
They must carefully observe all the statutes and ordinances set before them. Entering the land calls for wholehearted obedience.
Overview
Moses closes the exhortation by charging Israel to keep all God's laws diligently. Life in the land was to be marked by faithful observance of His word. This call to careful obedience prepares for the detailed statutes that follow and points to the obedience of faith fulfilled in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
- Deut 12:32Whatever thing I command you, that you shall observe to do. You shall not add to it, nor take away from it.
- Luke 1:6They were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord.
- Ps 119:6Then I wouldn’t be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.
- John 15:14You are my friends, if you do whatever I command you.
- Matt 7:21–27Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven; but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
- Deut 5:32–33You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
- 1 Th 4:1–2Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
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Moses promised a Prophet like himself to whom Israel must listen (18:15); Jesus is that Prophet, the one who keeps the covenant we broke and becomes the curse for us by hanging on a tree (Gal 3:13).
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