‘Therefore you shall observe all My statutes and all My judgments, and perform 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.
- BSB You must keep all My statutes and all My ordinances and follow 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).
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Cross-references · 9
- Deut 8:1You shall observe to do all the commandments which I command you today, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.
- Lev 18:4–5You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.
- 1 Jn 3:22–23and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
- Ps 119:34Give me understanding, and I will keep your law. Yes, I will obey it with my whole heart.
- Deut 5:1Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, “Hear, Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears today, that you may learn them, and observe to do them.”
- Deut 4:1–2Now, 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 6:1–2Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Yahweh your God commanded to teach you, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it;
- Ps 119:4You have commanded your precepts, that we should fully obey them.
- Deut 4:5–6Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
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