Therefore, you must obey all these commands, decrees, and regulations I am giving you today.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall therefore keep the commandments, the statutes, and the ordinances, which I command you today, to do them.
- 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.
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Quick answer
Therefore Israel must carefully keep all God's commandments, statutes, and ordinances. Knowing God's character calls for diligent obedience.
Overview
The right response to God's faithful love and justice is wholehearted obedience. Moses urges Israel to do, not merely hear, the commandments. Such obedience is the fruit, not the cause, of the covenant relationship, a pattern fulfilled in those who love Christ and keep his word.
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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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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