You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow them. I am the LORD.”
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”
- KJV Therefore shall ye observe all my statutes, and all my judgments, and do them: I am the LORD.
- NKJV ‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform them: I am the Lord.’ ”
- NASB So you shall keep all My statutes and all My ordinances, and do them; I am the Lord.’ ”
- NLT “You must be careful to keep all of my decrees and regulations by putting them into practice. I am the Lord.”
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Quick answer
Israel is to observe and obey all God's statutes and ordinances. This closing summons calls for wholehearted, comprehensive obedience.
Overview
This verse caps the Holiness Code's central chapter, gathering its many commands under one charge: keep them all and do them. Obedience is not selective but total, flowing from the covenant relationship sealed by 'I am Yahweh.' While no one keeps the law perfectly, it reveals God's holy will and our need for the One who fulfilled it on our behalf (Matt. 5:17).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Deut 8:1You must carefully follow every commandment I am giving you today, so that you may live and multiply, and enter and possess the land that the LORD swore to give your fathers.
- Lev 18:4–5You are to practice My judgments and keep My statutes by walking in them. I am the LORD your God.
- 1 Jn 3:22–23and we will receive from Him whatever we ask, because we keep His commandments and do what is pleasing in His sight.
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding that I may obey Your law, and follow it with all my heart.
- Deut 5:1Then Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: Hear, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances that I declare in your hearing this day. Learn them and observe them carefully.
- Deut 4:1–2Hear now, O Israel, the statutes and ordinances I am teaching you to follow, so that you may live and may enter and take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
- Deut 6:1–2These are the commandments and statutes and ordinances that the LORD your God has instructed me to teach you to follow in the land that you are about to enter and possess,
- Ps 119:4You have ordained Your precepts, that we should keep them diligently.
- Deut 4:5–6See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
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