Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh said to Moses, “How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
- KJV And the LORD said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
- 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 failed to keep God’s covenant and refused to live by His law.
- 2 Kgs 17:14But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.
- Ps 106:13Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.
- Ezek 20:13Yet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- Num 14:11And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
- Ps 78:22because they did not believe God or rely on His salvation.
- Jer 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
- Ps 81:13–14If only My people would listen to Me, if Israel would follow My ways,
- Mark 9:19“O unbelieving generation!” Jesus replied. “How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy to Me.”
- Jer 9:6You dwell in the midst of deception; in their deceit they refuse to know Me,” declares the LORD.
- Exod 10:3So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
- Ezek 20:16because they kept rejecting My ordinances, refusing to walk in My statutes, and profaning My Sabbaths; for their hearts continually went after their idols.
- Isa 7:13Then Isaiah said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you try the patience of my God as well?
- Num 20:12But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”
- Isa 7:9The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all.’”
- Ezek 5:6But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.’
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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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