These are the statutes and the ordinances which you shall observe to do in the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess it, all the days that you live on the earth.
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- KJV These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
- BSB These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.
- NKJV “These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which the Lord God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth.
- NASB “These are the statutes and the judgments which you shall carefully follow in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess as long as you live on the earth.
- NLT “These are the decrees and regulations you must be careful to obey when you live in the land that the Lord, the God of your ancestors, is giving you. You must obey them as long as you live.
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Quick answer
These are the statutes and ordinances Israel must observe all their days in the land. God's law was to govern their whole life in Canaan.
Overview
This verse introduces the body of specific laws for life in the promised land. Israel's enjoyment of the land was to be shaped by lifelong obedience to God's commands. The enduring claim of God's word over every area of life anticipates the comprehensive lordship of Christ over His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- 1 Kgs 8:40that they may fear you all the days that they live in the land which you gave to our fathers.
- Job 7:1“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
- Deut 4:19and lest you lift up your eyes to the sky, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the army of the sky, you are drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Yahweh your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole sky.
- Deut 6:1–2Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
- Deut 4:45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,
- Ps 146:2While I live, I will praise Yahweh. I will sing praises to my God as long as I exist.
- Ps 104:33I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
- Deut 4:1–2Now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the ordinances, which I teach you, to do them; that you may live, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, gives you.
- Deut 12:19Be careful that you don’t forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land.
- Deut 4:9–10Only be careful, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things which your eyes saw, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life; but make them known to your children and your children’s children;
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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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