And all the people answered together, “We will do everything that the LORD has spoken.” So Moses brought their words back to the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.
- KJV And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.
- NKJV Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.
- NASB Then all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do!” And Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord.
- NLT And all the people responded together, “We will do everything the Lord has commanded.” So Moses brought the people’s answer back to the Lord.
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Quick answer
The people pledged together to do all that Yahweh had spoken. Israel commits to the covenant before knowing how hard obedience will prove.
Overview
The whole nation eagerly vows obedience, and Moses reports their answer to God. Their sincere yet self-confident pledge will soon be broken (ch. 32), exposing humanity's inability to keep God's law in their own strength. This drives us to the new covenant, where God writes His law on the heart (Jer. 31; Heb. 8).
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Cross-references · 7
- Exod 24:7Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it to the people, who replied, “All that the LORD has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”
- Exod 24:3When Moses came and told the people all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all responded with one voice: “All the words that the LORD has spoken, we will do.”
- Josh 24:24So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”
- Neh 10:29hereby join with their noble brothers and commit themselves with a sworn oath to follow the Law of God given through His servant Moses and to carefully obey all the commandments, ordinances, and statutes of the LORD our Lord.
- Exod 20:19“Speak to us yourself and we will listen,” they said to Moses. “But do not let God speak to us, or we will die.”
- Deut 5:27–29Go near and listen to all that the LORD our God says. Then you can tell us everything the LORD our God tells you; we will listen and obey.”
- Deut 26:17–19Today you have proclaimed that the LORD is your God and that you will walk in His ways, keep His statutes and commandments and ordinances, and listen to His voice.
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