You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you today, to do them.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
- BSB So keep the commandments and statutes and ordinances that I am giving you to follow this day.
- NKJV Therefore you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I command you today, to observe them.
- NASB Therefore, you shall keep the commandment, the statutes, and the judgments which I am commanding you today, to do them.
- NLT Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- John 14:15If you love me, keep my commandments.
- Deut 4:1Now, 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 5:32You 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.
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