“You must faithfully keep all my commands by putting them into practice, for I am the Lord.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
- KJV Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.
- BSB You are to keep My commandments and practice them. I am the LORD.
- NKJV “Therefore you shall keep My commandments, and perform them: I am the Lord.
- NASB So you shall keep My commandments, and do them; I am the Lord.
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Quick answer
Therefore Israel must keep and obey God's commandments; He is Yahweh.
Overview
This summons gathers up the preceding laws into a call for wholehearted obedience. Keeping the commandments was Israel's response to the God who had set them apart. The grounding phrase 'I am Yahweh' makes obedience a matter of covenant loyalty to the Lord Himself, fulfilled perfectly only in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Deut 4:40You shall keep his statutes, and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land, which Yahweh your God gives you, forever.
- Num 15:40that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
- Lev 19:37“‘You shall observe all my statutes, and all my ordinances, and do them. I am Yahweh.’”
- Lev 18:4–5You shall do my ordinances, and you shall keep my statutes, and walk in them: I am Yahweh your God.
- 1 Th 4:1–2Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
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