Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
- BSB Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
- NKJV And the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My laws?
- NASB Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep My commandments and My instructions?
- NLT The Lord asked Moses, “How long will these people refuse to obey my commands and instructions?
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Quick answer
Yahweh rebukes the people through Moses: how long will they refuse to keep his commandments and laws? Persistent disobedience grieves the Lord.
Overview
God's question exposes Israel's ongoing pattern of distrust and disobedience, even amid daily evidence of his faithfulness. The Sabbath-breaking is symptomatic of a deeper reluctance to obey God's word. This divine rebuke underscores the seriousness of unbelief and anticipates Israel's recurring struggle with hardness of heart throughout the wilderness.
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Cross-references · 16
- Ps 78:10They didn’t keep God’s covenant, and refused to walk in his law.
- 2 Kgs 17:14Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.
- Ps 106:13They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,
- Ezek 20:13“‘“But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They didn’t walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keeps, he shall live in them. They greatly profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
- Num 14:11Yahweh said to Moses, “How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe in me, for all the signs which I have worked among them?
- Ps 78:22because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation.
- Jer 4:14Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
- Ps 81:13–14Oh that my people would listen to me, that Israel would walk in my ways!
- Mark 9:19He answered him, “Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me.”
- Jer 9:6Your habitation is in the middle of deceit; through deceit they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.
- Exod 10:3Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, “This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
- Ezek 20:16because they rejected my ordinances, and didn’t walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; for their heart went after their idols.
- Isa 7:13He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?
- Num 20:12Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you didn’t believe in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
- Isa 7:9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”
- Ezek 5:6She has rebelled against my ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are around her; for they have rejected my ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.’
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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