Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”
- BSB You shall therefore obey the voice of the LORD your God and follow His commandments and statutes I am giving you today.”
- NKJV Therefore you shall obey the voice of the Lord your God, and observe His commandments and His statutes which I command you today.”
- NASB So you shall obey the Lord your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today.”
- NLT So you must obey the Lord your God by keeping all these commands and decrees that I am giving you today.”
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Quick answer
Because they are Yahweh's people, Israel must obey his voice and keep his commandments. Privilege brings responsibility.
Overview
Covenant belonging is the ground, not the result, of obedience. Having been made God's people, Israel is summoned to live out that identity through faithful obedience. This pattern foreshadows the gospel logic, where believers obey not to earn God's favor but because they already belong to him in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Deut 11:1Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
- 1 Pet 1:14–16As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
- Mic 6:8He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?
- Deut 11:7–8But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
- Matt 5:48Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
- Deut 10:12–13And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
- 1 Pet 4:1–3Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
- Lev 19:2Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.
- Mic 4:5For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
- Eph 4:17–24This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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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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