This is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
Parallel translations
- KJV And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
- BSB This is the law that Moses set before the Israelites.
- NKJV Now this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.
- NASB Now this is the Law which Moses set before the sons of Israel;
- NLT This is the body of instruction that Moses presented to the Israelites.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Deut 27:26‘Cursed is he who doesn’t uphold the words of this law by doing them.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”
- Deut 1:5Beyond the Jordan, in the land of Moab, Moses began to declare this law, saying,
- Deut 33:4Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance for the assembly of Jacob.
- Deut 27:8You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly.”
- Deut 27:3You shall write on them all the words of this law, when you have passed over; that you may go in to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, a land flowing with milk and honey, as Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has promised you.
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- Lev 27:34These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
- Deut 17:18–19It shall be, when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write himself a copy of this law in a book, out of that which is before the priests the Levites.
- Mal 4:4“Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
- Num 36:13These are the commandments and the ordinances which Yahweh commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
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