So you shall obey the Lord your God, and do His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today.”
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall therefore obey Yahweh your God’s voice, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”
- KJV Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
- 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.”
- 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
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- Deut 11:1Therefore you shall love Yahweh your God, and keep his instructions, his statutes, his ordinances, and his commandments, always.
- 1 Pet 1:14–16as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,
- Mic 6:8He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
- Deut 11:7–8but your eyes have seen all of Yahweh’s great work which he did.
- Matt 5:48Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect.
- Deut 10:12–13Now, Israel, what does Yahweh your God require of you, but to fear Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
- 1 Pet 4:1–3Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin;
- Lev 19:2“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.
- Mic 4:5Indeed all the nations may walk in the name of their gods; but we will walk in the name of Yahweh our God forever and ever.
- Eph 4:17–24This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility 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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